When the Great War finished, politicians struggled to marry a battle-scarred generation with a penchant for gambling with the genteel, traditional values of a society that was otherwise untouched by the carnage of war.
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But other violations, such as female foeticide or so-called "honour killings" and "stove burnings" which occur here are often rooted in a culture where a female's sexual behaviour is linked to her family's reputation and a tradition where hefty dowries are expected to marry off daughters - a "burden" many can do without.
She needed permission from Saudi Arabia's interior minister to marry a non-Saudi, says Ms. Sharif, who has a 7-year-old son from a previous marriage.
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However, due to Sweden's strict royal succession rules -- which at the time did not permit a contender for the throne to marry a commoner -- King Gustav VI Adolph (the current king's grandfather) would not give his blessing to the union.
Ten years later, just as Anna is about to marry a good-natured man (Danny Huston) who has patiently wooed her for years, a ten-year-old boy shows up and announces that he is Sean reborn.
South African rumour had the 81-year-old ex-president, recently widowed, about to marry a glamorous 46-year-old.
Far from emerging from Paris's elite, Mr Beaudoin was a French-Canadian chartered accountant who happened to marry the daughter of a successful maker of snow-mobiles, one Joseph-Armand Bombardier.
Susan Patton never questions the norm that women should "marry up" -- and by extension, men should marry "down" -- on a variety of dimensions, including education, accomplishment and age. (Nor does she question the assumption that mate choice is universally heterosexual, but that is a topic for another debate.) Yet a thorough gender revolution means questioning such assumptions about how women (and men) select a life partner.
He cast himself as Prince Nikolaus von Wildeliebe-Rauffenburg, the hedonistic scion of a fading noble family whose parents want to marry him off to a homely corn-plaster heiress (Zasu Pitts).
Immigration officials detained him at Montrose Street registration office at 10:30 on Tuesday just as he was set to marry a 32-year-old Lithuanian woman.
The makers of Sesame Street say characters Bert and Ernie will not marry in a same-sex ceremony despite an online petition calling for the union.
That would include amending the 2010 Equality Act to ensure no discrimination claim can be brought against religious organisations or individual ministers for refusing to marry a same-sex couple.
The child's story is paralleled with that of another widow, who falls in love with and expects to marry a high-caste idealist but commits suicide when his father advises him not to rock the boat and to take her as a mistress instead.
And in an unusual move, a Las Vegas judge held a hearing in 2000 to prove the annulment request of Darva Conger, who married millionaire real estate developer Rick Rockwell on air during Fox Network's much maligned reality show, Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire?
The women are of the era when the only serious career offering was a husband and children, and in the novel all of them marry, except for a grammar-school teacher who is unable to find the right man and another woman who ends up a bit of a floozy.
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Rob Portman of Ohio announced he is now a supporter of the freedom to marry after finding out that his son -- a Yale sophomore -- is gay.
Even though public opinion is shifting, and by now nine states have affirmed a right for same-sex couples to marry, proponents would prefer that a federal constitutional right be created by the U.S. Supreme Court.
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In 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court found the idea of a legal right of same-sex couples to marry so outlandish that it dismissed a Minnesota case presenting the issue without bothering to write an opinion.
Those who marry a mastery of technology with a clear focus on customer-facing functions.
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Maybe Noer is right--don't marry a career woman, and DO NOT even THINK about marrying me.
Baldwin is engaged to marry Hilaria Thomas, a 27-year-old yoga instructor.
For those traditional cave-men thinking, 50's lifestyle loving, sharply divided sexist role practicing males- they had better NOT marry a career woman.
"I assume that Senator Clinton -- who has spoken out strongly against military discrimination, who stands for civil unions and respect for same-sex couples -- understands that gay Americans are not immoral, and she ought to say so clearly, " said Evan Wolfson, executive director of Freedom to Marry, a group that advocates same-sex marriage.
In Langholm a 23-year-old Pakistani man was arrested as he attempted to marry a Polish woman.
Also at Gretna a 22-year-old Pakistani man was arrested as he planned to marry a Polish woman.
In Annan on Tuesday, a 25-year-old Pakistani man was arrested as he attempted to marry a Bulgarian woman of the same age.
Both Hispanic and black men and women who marry whites are more likely to be in a union where both partners are college-educated than those who marry in their group.
If you are a college-educated black woman with a good job and you wish to marry a black man who is your socioeconomic equal, the odds are not good.
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Villagers say that no girl may marry into a neighbouring village until her in-laws promise to provide a girl in return.
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