Sentence examples for secondary wives from inspiring English sources

At the age of 14, the young women were taken out of the acllahuasi and some would be selected to be given as secondary wives to nobles while others would be consecrated to serve as priestesses or Wives of the Sun.

The court scribes, archaeologists have concluded, came from the noble class, sometimes from the royal family itself -- younger sons of rulers or sons by secondary wives and concubines, and even some daughters.

Education of both partners was recoded into a single variable with four categories: both < secondary, wife ≥ secondary + husband < secondary, wife < secondary + husband ≥ secondary, both ≥ secondary school.

The current wave of diagnosis includes family members with secondary exposure, like wives who washed their husbands asbestos-contaminated work clothes every day.

He was a good man, strong and brave and loyal, but he was secondary to his wife.

A similar proportion of them had not completed secondary school as their wives (16.5%), and 82.2% generated income through agricultural or manual work.

In a few cases, the obligation tended towards a compulsion and led to sexual sacrifice as a secondary strategy because those wives feared a repeat of their husband's inappropriate behavior.

She had previously disclosed a patient's HIV positive status to his wife for secondary prevention purpose.

When Mr. Xi became vice president in 2007, Ms. Peng began cutting back her performances, in step with the traditional secondary role played by the wives of Chinese leaders.

It is not surprising that such women have relatively high tendency to utilise ANC because education endows people to appreciate the essence of seeking healthcare at each stage of life and as such men with at least secondary education might urge their wives on the need to regularly access ANC without obstructing them.

He died after contracting a secondary cancer, leaving behind his wife and two daughters.