Sentence examples for suitable marriage from inspiring English sources

Mexicans were legally white, but were they suitable marriage partners for "Americans"?

In 1930 she made a suitable marriage to Barnet Samuel, a lawyer.

"In the 1930s, the vast majority of Americans thought Jews were not suitable marriage partners," he said.

Rival financial institutions want to know if they are suitable marriage partners for the Street's most eligible bachelor.

One of Jason's rivals in the arena, Telemon, is also a rival for Ariadne's heart – and his claim of royal blood makes him far more suitable marriage material for the queen and her beleaguered city.

The other resembles a TV set, & is a brain-wave analyzer called Annie... Topsy and Annie are specifically credited with being able to advice individuals as to whether they would make suitable marriage partners.

As a couples therapist, the notion of marrying up vs. marrying down strikes me as impossibly antiquated -- something right out of "Downton Abbey," where suitable marriages were entirely a matter of matching people according to social class and fortune (hence the panic when Lord Grantham's youngest daughter marries their Irish chauffeur!).

In addition to FGM, adolescent girls are considered suitable for marriage; the mean age for marriage of females is 19 years and for males is 24 years (Ahmed and Abdel-Rahman 2008).

Or there is American-educated Kanti in the story "The World" who rejects a perfectly suitable arranged marriage with a Katmandu doctor because of an unhealthy attraction to an aristocratic, womanizing rake named Jaya, who is himself a sign of the disappearance of old ways and old values.

In his mind, she has a Deal Breaker that isn't suitable for marriage.

In an interactive quiz contained within, a woman can find out whether or not her precious angel baby will one day be found suitable for marriage by answering a series of questions about her daughter.