Sentences with phrase «at marriages as»

It looked at marriages as documented in the rich case - note material of 340 couples that presented for marital therapy.

Using a qualitative methodology it looked at marriages as documented in rich case - note material of 400 couples who presented for marital therapy.

If you look at marriage as what I can get, rather than what can I give, and what can we do together, good luck, you will need it.

You are looking at marriage as purely a means to reproduce.

You know, some people look at their marriage as if it were a book, page after page.

Not exact matches

«We view this as a «home - run deal» for Disney and while its an aggressive acquisition with a high price tag, in our opinion this is the right move at the right time as the marriage of these assets creates a much more formidable Disney,» Ives said.

Cabinet ministers have been at odds over policy, including citizenship laws, the national vote on same - sex marriage and competition reform, as well as being left out of the decision loop on a series of «captain's picks» by the prime minister.

«Some people have talked about marriage as a luxury good,» said Susan Brown, a sociology professor at Bowling Green State University and co-director of the National Center for Family and Marriage Rmarriage as a luxury good,» said Susan Brown, a sociology professor at Bowling Green State University and co-director of the National Center for Family and Marriage RMarriage Research.

After their marriage, Sarah Shipp gave up her job as a Pilates instructor, and the pair traveled together for a year, staying in cheap hotels, pulling in late at night to small towns where the only food to be found was at the gas station — bowling alley.

At first they regulated the services that they performed directly — marriage and burial ceremonies, handicraft production via public guilds, and the prices and interest rates that merchants, public collectors and other professionals could charge, especially in serving as intermediaries between public institutions, local and foreign communities.

Instead, some investors, like Patrick Horan, a money manager at Agilith Capital in Toronto, see the marriage of Tim Hortons and Burger King as a classic case of financial engineering, and worry about the outcome for the donut chain.

New Democrats feel their best shot at re-election cuts a straight path through Kenney's social values, policies and past comments against same - sex marriage and abortion, as well as his more recent comments that parents ought to be informed that their kids are in school gay - straight alliances.

Question: So that if the subject were to exclude the sacramentality of marriage, just as if one were to exclude children, for example, at the moment of the wedding, this could also make the contracted marriage null.

When I glanced at the cartoon (before reading the title / caption) I thought they were giant condoms being supplied by people finally ready to admit that the «Just Say No» to sex before marriage campaign isn't as effective as we've been led to believe.

im glad no - one believes in demons - the devil or god — and they try to rationalise everything — and discredit the bible — just shows me where we are at in the holy book — see if i remember, the end times come when «scorners and scoffers abound» when — wrong is called right and right is called wrong — and people would be married and given in marriage as in the daysd of noah --- sodom and gammorah had gay issues badly - im just gonna laugh and alaugh and laugh when ya «ll burn - do me a favor — at least read the bible once — see what it says before you — go against it.

Nevertheless, this current situation described earlier makes us reflect, and, as pastors, we are worried about the fact that many people who contract marriage are formally Christians, since they have received baptism, but are not practicing the Christian faith at all; not just liturgically, but also existentially.

In fact, same - sex marriage advocates can now take the rhetorical high ground: «At a time when heterosexual couples are merely cohabiting, at least we believe in marriage as an institution.&raquAt a time when heterosexual couples are merely cohabiting, at least we believe in marriage as an institution.&raquat least we believe in marriage as an institution.»

When I learned the law of head - covering at a Jerusalem seminary for women, I was horrified that I would have to bind up my head upon marriage; all clothing was a concession, and I conceded as little as permissible.

As it seeks to apply this voluntarism to marriage and family, which are not mere social constructs but are firmly anchored in God's creation, we may see liberalism at last reaching a breaking point.

When a Christian organization appears to endorse same - sex unions, even in ways that avoid formal cooperation, the world views it as proclaiming, at least tacitly, that it does not believe that marriage is between man and woman or that sex is reserved for marriage.

If you doubt that, just look at the startling speed with which ho.mose.xuality has gone from a crime worthy of committal into a psychiatric ward to being accepted, and now so - called ho.mose.xual marriage is now being legalized, and the outcasts of society are now the ones who still disaprove of this as being sinful.

The result is to increase the number of annulments as it is discovered that there were «impediments» to a valid marriage and, at the same time, to elevate the level of understanding that should be brought to marriage.

Meanwhile, there are millions of moderate American Christians who have no inclination towards opposing gay marriage at all who end up getting lumped together with these other «Christians» as being hateful.

Democ rats know this secret, make same s ex legally binding as marriage at federal level and they get an increase in federal income tax.

Molly's anger at Mort is to their marriage as salt is to a good meal: it's good, but a little goes a long way.

If one stands up and proclaims that gay marriage is ok and hurts majority of the population it is not called hate whereas if anyone points a finger at the moral decay it is defined as hate.»

tryintg to redfine what marriage is and all... redefining what love is... as I saidl... look at the statistics..

he IS grasping at straws since the singel parent thing wasnt an issue... secondly... you apparently need to go to school and learn that there IS a difference between a woman and a man and that children benefit from BOTH... and hwo a man loves a woman as nature intended... its people like you who are reason for high divorce rates in USA, because they don tknow what love or marriage is..

(A decision for same - sex marriage by a state could as in the case of Massachusetts, preempts the debate in that state, but it is less far - reaching because it leaves other states to arrive at a different conclusion — unless, as some same - sex - marriage proponents have claimed, other states are required to recognize such marriages under the Constitution's requirement of giving «full faith and credit» to other states» proceedings.)

At the same time, marriages and families have become essentially emotional and egalitarian relationships rather than institutional and hierarchical ones, Thus, when marriage and family fail to satisfy, when they do not make all members feel «happy» and «fulfilled,» then these arrangements begin to dissolve, or at least to be regarded as needing repaiAt the same time, marriages and families have become essentially emotional and egalitarian relationships rather than institutional and hierarchical ones, Thus, when marriage and family fail to satisfy, when they do not make all members feel «happy» and «fulfilled,» then these arrangements begin to dissolve, or at least to be regarded as needing repaiat least to be regarded as needing repair.

Their integrity has been undermined by the easier forms of divorce at the same time as there has been a spread in the practice of cohabitation between men and women without the legal form of marriage.

Of course there are other reasons for my sporadic blogging this year: a surprise new baby coming which completely disoriented us, a new book to finish writing (and I will share all about that in January), travelling and speaking all over North America, stewarding the message of Jesus Feminist throughout her first year of life, creating the Jesus Feminist collection with Imagine Goods, a trip to Haiti, new opportunities as a writer, three tinies at home with their own lives and drama and growth and change, remodelling parts of our home, marriage, church, friends, life, work, laundry (oh, can we talk laundry?!)

No argument is more effective in promoting gay marriage than the insistence that its rejection offends our sense of justice and equality, especially as concern for the underprivileged and marginalized lies at the heart of our Judeo - Christian heritage.

And you would be right, but as Robby notes, «The impulse to crush the rights of conscience... to ensure conformity with what have become key tenets of the liberal faith (abortion, «sexual freedom,» «same - sex marriage») is the authoritarian impulse» at work.

The «only way to save your marriage» was a lie, as he and she had already planned their mutual leavinf of their spouses (both married at the time) plan.

At least in so far as I think men and women do have complimentary roles to one another in marriage.

The sheer unpredictability of city encounters makes it impossible to presume, as many churches do, that God's grace must be sequential — measured out at regular intervals in baptism, confirmation, communion, marriage, burial — and will happen to everyone at the prescribed time, in the same way.»

Preservation of the marriage and the family is at least as important as most individual confidences, A balance can and should be struck.

They show that marriage is no longer regarded as a new, independent reality transcending the individuality of the spouses, a reality that, at the very least, can not be dissolved by the will of one partner alone.

And as Islamic law forbids a Muslim woman from marrying a non-Muslim man (although it permits a Muslim man to marry a non-Muslim woman), her marriage was not a marriage at all in Sudan, where matters of personal and family law are controlled by religious courts.

Six months later, January 1963, having just signed a historic treaty, they again attended a mass together at Reims, and «Some observers referred to the ceremony as «the marriage of the two old men,» because Adenauer and de Gaulle knelt at the front of the congregration, side by side, on a prie - dieu before the altar as would a bride and bridegroom.»

«According to our Teacher, just as they are sinners who contract a second marriage, even though it be in accord with human law, so also are they sinners who look with lustful desire at a woman.

So I still believe passionately that we need to celebrate singleness, as well as marriage, and I suppose that, especially now, I don't see those things as being at all mutually exclusive.

Where the church has failed is not in its high standard of fidelity, but in its tendency to treat sex as incidental to the fulfilment of marriage, or as at best a minor element in fulfillment.

The Rite is at pains to place a high value on the more common vocation of marriage, which is not to be considered as denigrated by implication, but it affirms the positive value of the vocation to consecrated virginity in itself.

They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution.

A barrage of such stuff, pouncing on any scandal that could be dug up and chipping away at the pontificate of Pope Benedict, not to mention the usual stuff about the need to elect a pope who would change the «policy» of the Church over such matters as abortion, gay marriage and women priests, had been unleashed almost immediately, once Benedict had been congratulated for bringing the papacy into the 21st century by resigning.

Society was by this time well prepared to accept this measure although it was claimed that it was not at all the same as marriage despite being modelled very closely on the Marrimarriage despite being modelled very closely on the MarriageMarriage Act.

Archbishop Dolan concluded his statement with a matter - of - fact declaration of what is at stake in the debate over DOMA: «The Administration's currentposition is not only a grave threat to marriage, but to religious liberty and the integrity of our democracy as well.»

At the beginning of his reforming career, John Calvin adopted as his own this standard Protestant view of marriage, but later he was able to develop a more sophisticated analogy for marriage.