Sentence examples for recognised relationship from inspiring English sources

Both argued that, as they were never able to marry or enter into any other form of legally recognised relationship with their partners because they were gay, restricting access to these financial benefits to surviving spouses was a form of indirect discrimination against gay people.

"The court held that the object of the ACT act is to provide for marriage equality for same-sex couples and not for some form of legally recognised relationship which is relevantly different from the relationship of marriage which the federal law provides for and recognises," the court said in its summary of the judgment.

Rebecca Steinfeld and Charles Keidan, from Hammersmith, west London, argued that they are being discriminated against by not being able to become civil partners – a legally recognised relationship only same-sex couples are eligible to enter under the Civil Partnership Act 2004.

I remember how it felt to grow up gay and discover I could never have a legally recognised relationship.

These patients were deemed to be suitable controls as there is no recognised relationship between disc herniation and ulnar nerve compression at the elbow.

A proposal is also being put to the States next month that would allow couples in a civil partnership or other legally recognised relationships to adopt children in Guernsey.

Contextualising the findings of the present and prior study 2 according to the definition provided by Bourdieu, 14 it is possible to affirm that social capital refers to the actual or potential resources that people access through membership in an institutionalised network of known and recognised relationships.

The first group has advantages in their ability to recognise relationship between input data at various levels of abstraction.

On Wednesday the Victorian parliament passed a bill to automatically recognise relationships formalised under international laws or laws in other Australian states.

Gillard's point also resonates with many queer activists and academics who argue that focusing on marriage as the only legitimate/valuable institution for recognising relationships disqualifies many other forms of kinship.

Historically, the courts have been willing to be "generous in finding that the necessary fiduciary relationship existed", even going so far as to recognise relationships that did not exist at the time of the transfer.