Sentence examples for the marriageable from inspiring English sources

She is one of several marriage consultants who help match ambitious young men and the marriageable daughters of business families.If the meetings go well, the men agree to drop their own surname and are adopted by their new bride's family, becoming both the head of the clan and of its business.

Howell's first act was to offer a bill that would raise the marriageable age, for girls, from fourteen to sixteen.

What do you think of the diktat issued by a Khap Panchayat member in Haryana about reducing the marriageable age to 16 years?

Hence the marriageable men paint Mexican-style murals or make references to Frida Kahlo, while the cad spouts the poetry of the Spanish aesthete García Lorca.

Later, in 2012, he said he agreed with one khap's suggestion that the marriageable age for women should be lowered to prevent rape.

At that time Vietnamese women traditionally married around 16, and those still single at 20 would often be considered "qua lua," or "past the marriageable age".

Can Jo Marchmont, the most marriageable girl from the top families, escape her gilded cage and become a news reporter?

Many of these unions are not legal in Turkey because the legal marriageable age is 17 and the legal age of consent is, confusingly, 18.

Further, it links the age of consent to the legal marriageable age, 18, in a bid to discourage premarital sex, a ridiculous morality-driven move that ignores changing social mores and the reality of teenage sexuality.

The second scandal in Kierkegaard's life was his brusquely breaking off, in August of 1841, an eleven-month engagement to the eminently marriageable Regine Olsen.

"Among the divorced, the least marriageables in our society are older women, highly educated who make a good salary".