Marriages in a sentence

As of 2011, child marriages are common in a few Middle Eastern countries, accounting for 1 in 6 all marriages in Egypt and 1 in 3 marriages in Yemen.

Pamela Anderson's romantic history has been marked by several high-profile relationships and marriages, totaling five marriages thus far.

All six of the same-sex marriages were performed at the Registry General as civil ceremonies, and none of the marriages were religious ceremonies held at a hotel and a home.

Over the past years, the number of international marriages has increased, accounting for 7 to 10 percent of all marriages in the country.

The report noted that women in semi and self-arranged marriages are three times as likely as those in family-arranged marriages to exercise agency on key areas of decision making, including on expenditures.

Mutharika said the prevalence of child marriages is high in Malawi, hence the need to join hands to make sure that children stay in schools and not in early marriages.

The report also shows that there were two same-sex marriages between non-residents, and three same-sex marriages between a resident and non-resident.

They are two evils the good Lord should not allow to plague our marriages, our children’s marriages.

While decrying the rising spate of broken marriages especially in the entertainment industry, Abeni said that every man or woman needed a companion; therefore people must make their marriages work.

Although the issue of morganatic marriages were ineligible to succeed to their families' respective thrones, children of morganatic marriages have gone on to achieve dynastic success elsewhere in Europe.

Judges sometimes honored marriages based on mutual consent at ages younger than 7: in contrast to established canon, there are recorded marriages of 2 and 3 year olds.

Marriages between ascendants and descendants, and marriages between collaterals within the fourth degree (i.

Most jurisdictions prohibit parent-child and sibling marriages, while other also prohibit first-cousin and uncle-niece and aunt-nephew marriages.

Most of the marriages in Botswana are registered in Gaborone; about 15% of all marriages in Botswana were registered in Gaborone in 2007. citation On average, there are 3.3 persons per household in Gaborone.

Polygyny Although a society may be classified as polygynous, not all marriages in it necessarily are; monogamous marriages may in fact predominate.

Same-sex and third-gender marriages main As noted above, several kinds of same-gendered, non-sexual marriages exist in some lineage-based societies; this section relates to same-gendered sexual unions.

The Act did not apply to Jewish marriages or those of Quakers, whose marriages continued to be governed by their own customs.

The Marriage Act 1836 established civil marriage and registration systems that permit marriages in nonconformist chapels, and a Registrar General of Births, Marriages, and Deaths.

These marriages occurred after young adults reared on kibbutzim had served in the military and encountered tens of thousands of other potential mates, and 200 marriages is higher than what would be expected by chance.

The specific feature in Japan has been the fact that these marriages have been soon incorporated as elements of tradition which controlled the marriages of later generations, though the original practical alliance had lost its real meaning.