Sentence examples for which marriages from inspiring English sources

Let churches decide which marriages they deem "licit".

(A later occasional resident, Jean Cocteau, established the small museum that bears his name and decorated the room in the city hall in which marriages are performed).

Many animal species are more or less monogamous, but it is only humans that have marriage, and only humans who have the webs of meaning within which marriages – and human sex – exist.

In a culture in which marriages, breakups and even the birthing methods of movie stars and singers dominate newsstands and television programs, who is surprised that the stars — and their coverage — are being turned into currency?

"The Custom of the Country" is by no means the earliest novel in which marriages are dissolved, but it's the first novel in the Western canon to put serial divorce at its center, and in so doing it sounds the death knell of the "marriage plot" that had invigorated countless narratives in centuries past.

Rows about which states should recognise which marriages will now start sprouting up in state courts around the country; some of them will surely end up at the Supreme Court.In the meantime, conservatives in Massachusetts want to push through an amendment to their state constitution.

Which marriage is your favorite, and why?

And what about those other longings which marriage stifled?

We want to live in the ease and with the protection which marriage offers.

(A reminder: I'm talking about civil marriage, not what happens in churches, which marriage-equality laws leave alone).

Celibacy has played little role in Judaism, in which marriage and raising children are understood as holy obligations.