Sentence examples for recognize polygamy from inspiring English sources
"We practice monogamy here -- we don't recognize polygamy," said the prosecutor responsible for uncovering the truth behind the president's murder.
Same-sex couples are seeking merely to participate in the existing system of family law for married couples, she said, while "you'd have to restructure the family law system in a pretty fundamental way" to recognize polygamy.
Some defenders of same-sex marriage hold that their arguments do not entail recognizing polygamy, due to its oppressive effects on women (Wedgwood 1999).
Rauch's reply is that incestuous marriage "is an option no one needs and no one even seems to want," and that Americans will easily recognize that polygamy does considerably more damage to a liberal-democratic order than his own preferred policy of "one person, one spouse" possibly could.
Thus, the state should recognize a diversity of marital relationships including polygamy (Calhoun 2005, Mahoney 2008).
If one is looking for a route to polygamy in the United States, the surest, quickest way is to allow states to keep refusing to recognize same-sex marriages legally performed elsewhere.
(Justice Alito, predictably, brought up the supposed polygamy slippery slope, without recognizing that the question cuts both ways).
A small but increasingly vocal minority of secular Tunisians are predicting that an Islamist-dominated national assembly will reverse key pieces of civil rights legislation, including those recognizing the right to abortion and prohibiting polygamy.
By the end of the 1990s the government had stopped its campaigns against polygamy and initiation rites, implicitly recognizing that such social customs were difficult, if not impossible, to legislate.
For instance, polygamy is effectively legal in Kenya and is recognized by the courts under customary law.
As a result, women's emancipation was strengthened by the abolition of polygamy, marriage was made a civil contract, and divorce was recognized as a civil action.
