Sentence examples for since marriages from inspiring English sources

Although Thornton and Ruthie were married by a black minister, they lived apart, since marriages between slaves were not legal.

"Since marriages so often don't end up exactly like weddings, people have a morbid fascination of all the things that can go wrong before this picture-perfect day," Professor Helmreich said.

Arturo Cobos, a manager at Kard Zone in the city's traditionally gay Castro neighborhood, said he had done "big sales" of same-sex wedding cards and other trinkets since marriages began in June, but had recently stopped stocking new goods.

Since the authors of the Bible were inspired by God, then God must be opposed to homosexuality, and since marriages are done through God, there can be no same sex marriage.

Gordon Brown's image has softened greatly since marriage and kids.

"Since marriage is about people making a home together".

The act should be repealed, he said, since marriage is defined by the states.

They made her estate-manager father decide to send her to school, since marriage might not be an option.

This marriage penalty is particularly large for poor Americans (since marriage also reduces a couple's eligibility for the Earned Income Tax Credit) and for high-income couples.

Constitutional rights are not absolute — free speech does not extend to obscenity, for instance — and since marriage is a contractual relationship both parties must be in a legal and mental position to agree to it.

A provincial Supreme Court ruled for the first time that prohibitions on same-sex marriages violate basic rights, but then decided that since marriage was intended solely for raising and sheltering children, the ban would stand.