Moreover, having once been Cambara's "husband" on paper and having "lived" with her in confined spaces, first as children growing up, then as a couple who entered into a contract of the marriage-of-convenience kind, Zaak has his partisan views.

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"The Syrians and the Iranians have a marriage of convenience, " Ross told CNN.

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When the couple split, a former friend of Moore, actress Ally Sheedy - the two women starred in St Elmo's Fire - told US magazine that the marriage had been one of convenience.

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The proposed merger would have been a marriage of convenience.

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There are also a number of inconsistencies in the script, the most notable of which concerns Stahl's green-card marriage of convenience to a British TV producer (played by Elizabeth Hurley).

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Labour's marriage of convenience with Likud is predicated on the assumption that those negotiations will not soon resume.

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