Shafilea Ahmed disappeared six months ago after a holiday in Pakistan during which she was introduced to a potential marriage partner.
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Family-controlled, secretive even by the standards of the drug industry, and with a reputation for arrogant management, Roche was never an attractive marriage partner.
All of them are honing in on the biggest bucks, catering to Web users interested not just in finding a date but a marriage partner (see " Getting Couples To Click"), but for Yahoo!
Now she asked the Obamas how it was possible to have an equal marriage when one partner was President.
In her prime-time speech, the would-be first lady spoke of her "real marriage" to a steadfast partner and father.
When the mayor of Rome (who bears a startling resemblance to Mr Clinton) received some sharp words in private from the pope about the sanctity of marriage, he immediately decided to marry his partner of 15 years.
But U.S. states have no such registers, and the experience of other countries may not apply to the U.S., which has some different reasons for marriage such as getting access to a partner's health insurance, which is rarely a factor in countries with universal health coverage and, typically, higher rates of heterosexual divorce.
More Indians are choosing their own partner online, instead of having an arranged marriage through their parents, Singh says.
"To me, it is a very sad thing that so many other issues around LGBT issues so many other complicated, complex, emotional issues we have been able to make progress on ... but we are not able to come to a resolution on this, " said Quinn, who married her longtime partner last year after lobbying to legalize gay marriage in the state.
The marriage in Seattle was designed to postpone the death of one partner.
That, though, is what one partner has said about the other in the political marriage which is our coalition government.
Indeed, the fact that some in the Coors family continue to fund antigay organizations while adopting partner benefits tracks the state of play on the marriage-preservation bill.
Alan Kaufman, a lawyer at the London firm of Finers Stephens Innocent, says judges have enormous latitude in their decision making, taking into account factors like the length of the marriage, the number of children and the financial contributions each partner has made.
She used to run a gay and lesbian advocacy group, she was a visible player in the push to legalize gay marriage in the state, and her 2012 wedding to her longtime partner, attorney Kim Catullo, was one of the biggest political parties of the year.
On the plus side, the incidence of marriage rose. (Ms Asgeirsdottir herself wed her long-term partner: for love, she stresses.) Icelanders worked fewer hours.
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If the evidence supporting the option of delayed marriage is so strong, why has a letter urging women to choose a partner early garnered so much attention?
Later that month, Iceland's prime minister Johanna Sigurdardottir married her partner, writer Jonina Leosdottir, on the day the country's gay marriage law came into force.
Other countries, such as Colombia, do not recognise gay marriage but do offer civil guarantees, including the right to draw a pension if one partner dies.
The big question is how the dream marriage between the mobile telephone and the Internet will happen and how the match will change each partner.
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