Sentences with phrase «failed marriage on»

Not exact matches

The same way that a bank deemed too big to fail might take greater risks — having the knowledge that its most severe mistakes will be underwritten by somebody else — so, too, can signing your name on a marriage licence offer a sort of insurance policy that changes your behaviour.

Kenney was part of a government for years that has a record (for instance, of failing to get pipelines built) and he has made many comments on political issues that are on the record (for instance, a long standing opposition to gay marriage).

So, extricating oneself from another couple's failing marriage early on when they've asked us to help them doesn't seem like the right decision for someone who I know lives a Kingdom life.

I've been praying for it for 12 years since my own marriage failed in much the same way as Julie's, though not on such a large public stage.

And Lenski's expectations failed because of the imperial judiciary's usurpation of the political process, notably on questions of marriage, family, and sexual ethics.

She was put on paid leave in 2011 after informing her supervisor she was considering divorce, and terminated that December for what she alleges was «failing to reconcile her marriage.»

Most marriages with addicts fail when the addict gets dry, because the relationship was dependent upon the codependent fixing the addict, and all the bad stuff in the relationship was blamed on the addiction.

But I fail to see how a single verse like Luke 17:34 (which in context has little or no bearing on homosexual marriage / behavior), or even several bare verses from various places in Scripture that are often quoted on this issue, make for worthwhile conversation.

In his foreword, the Rt Rev Peter Doyle, Chair of the Bishops» Committee for Marriage and Family Life, described the 4th edition as «a resource to assist all those in our communities whose marriages have failed, and those accompanying them; and restore to them, with the mercy of God, hope and confidence on the journey of faith in the light of the Gospel.»

Nobel Prize winning economist George Akerlof explains that «men settle down when they get married; if they fail to marry, they fail to settle down,» because «with marriage, men take on new identities that change their behavior.»

And to the original article, any marriage will fail horribly if it's based entirely on following silly arbitrary laws that deny human nature.

Incidentally, many of the critics of monogamous marriage, who favor alternate modes — «see how many marriages are on the rocks» — fail to note how many of the alternate routes fail.

He goes on to say, «After five years of marriage if a husband has failed to understand or seek help for the major causes of disharmony, either he doesn't understand what genuine love is, or has chosen to ignore God's command to shepherd his family wisely.»

Millennials have become a much maligned generation — they're either living in their parents» basement, or spending too much time playing video games, or unable to buy a home because they're spending too much money on avocado toast or delaying marriage, aka «failing» to reach the traditional markers of adulthood (hey, maybe those markers need -LSB-...]

I once saw this video on youtube from an anti-marriage advocate who said that statistically more than half of marriages fail (not including murder, suicides, and those who end up in institutions), and the other half that decides to stick it out makes a sport out of making each other miserable by fighting like Israelis vs. Palestinians.

So, I, too, will view a divorce as a «failed marriage» if we all agree that divorce — like failure in general — leads to «new level of growth,» can lead us to «steppingstones to later success» and «rid (s) ourselves of the wrong turns on the way to the right one.»

On its face, it does sound like the most obvious side effect of acknowledging the reality that marriages often fail.

We played and proved to be a crucial ally in building the case for Gay marriage (a just and right fight) «after all black marriages fail at such a high rate» etc and «marriage isn't about raising kids» its funny cause like every other minority group that uses Us to get their rights they bounce to the Suburbs and live «traditional» American lives gender roles included, I love it when the gender warriors turn around and heep praise on Ellen and her wonderful wife or other Gays who have traditional gender roles.

It's clear that some marriages may be yet another casualty of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars; I can only hope that we don't add another layer of strain on those marriages by labeling them as failed marriages.

Unlike two his fellow same - sex marriage «yes» voters, who struggled — and in one case, failed — to keep the GOP ballot line on primary day, Sen. Mark Grisanti easily defeated his challenger, attorney Kevin Stocker, on Sept. 13 and retained Row B.

The Log Cabin Republicans were very involved in the lobbying effort last December to try to convince some GOP senators to vote «yes» on marriage — an effort that ultimately failed when the entire 30 - member conference, joined by eight Democrats, voted «no» on the measure, killing the bill in the process.

A vote on gay marriage failed in the Senate in 2009, 38 - 24, when Democrats controlled the chamber.

A win - win for Skelos would be if he knows gay marriage would fail but allows a vote on it anyway — sort of the anti-Malcolm position.

Heading into the primary, the Senate GOP didn't seem terribly worried about Grisanti's ability to win, especially since Stocker had challenged him in 2012 — when the fallout from the senator's 2011 «yes» vote on same - sex marriage was still fresh — and failed to get very far, winning just 40 percent of the vote.

NYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn, appearing on CNN's John King USA, took a pragmatic approach on whether LGBT and liberal voters should abandon President Obama if he fails to «evolve,» as he might put it, to a «yes» on same - sex marriage.

Their divorce after 13 years of marriage came in 2003 — not long after Cuomo's failed 2002 gubernatorial bid, during which Kennedy and the couple's three daughters often joined the candidate on the road — and was similarly splayed across the front pages of NY's tabloids.

Cuomo «threw up his hands and claimed there was nothing he could do» when he failed to win Legislative limits on New York's notoriously high campaign contribution amounts, the paper said, adding, «Where was the energy and determination he showed on marriage rights and guns?

The campaign, titled Protect Our Democracy, is modeled after the successful strategy that led to marriage equality for New Yorkers and will inject itself into the upcoming state elections to put pressure on state senators that failed to support reform this past legislative session.

I had hoped the Archbishop of Canterbury might have reflected on the parallels between this and the Church's battle against the same - sex marriage bill, which the bishops also failed to win and subsequently lost so much respect over.

We are deeply saddened that the Democratic Conference failed to secure the votes they promised, undermining the possibility of a credible bipartisan vote of conscience on the merits of marriage equality.

Says Paterson of the marriage equality bill: «People who've lived together for 10, 20, 30 years are waiting, hoping that this legislation will pass while they still have the breath to elicit an «I do» on the altar, and I think it's time that it happens, and if I have to see legislation fail so I can identify who voted against it to better persuade them, then I'll take that chance.»

Parliamentary observers had wondered if the government was about to back down on gay marriage after it failed to appear in the Queen's Speech.

• During last year's contentious battle in the State Senate over the failed gay - marriage bill, while Governor Paterson, Kirsten Gillibrand, Christine Quinn, and even Chuck Schumer lobbied on behalf of the bill, Cuomo was virtually silent, not even bothering to get three wavering state senators on the phone when asked to do so by gay groups.

David Cameron has split the Conservative Party in half on gay marriage and failed to win a majority of Tory MPs.

I was seriously stressed during that decade, what with the PhD and not one, but two failed, marriages — I really was over-achieving on all fronts!

His most popular book, The Seven Principles, has sold more than a million copies, and is based on his pioneering work studying real marriages and what makes them succeed — or fail.

However, any marriage is a relationship between two different personalities, and it will succeed or fail on that basis, not because of stereotypes of what Romanian women are like.

GLOBE AND MAIL — Nov 5 — In a recent interview with The Globe and Mail, AshleyMadison CEO, Noel Biderman gave his commentary on the evolution of modern marriage and monogamy as a «failed social experiment.»

There is evidence that marital affairs can help get a failing or boring marriage back on track.

You also do not need to forget that there are many women, seeking for Western men on - line, who also have failed in their previous relationships or marriages and have children and also posses fears about having less possibilities of meeting a man, who would welcome not only her, but would make a good parent or at least a friend to their kids.

On the other hand, marriages with high degrees of conflict, with lots of contempt, criticism, defensiveness and the silent treatment are unhappy and very likely to fail.

Although Allen's documentary fails to put forward any new «smoking gun» evidence that it was the Royal family who had offed the Princess (something Western men travel to Ukraine to meet women they found on mail - order bride dating websites — both sides hoping the encounter will end in marriage.

It's only been six months since Junior buried Bucko, and lately the weight of the loss combined with the stress of his failing marriage is taking a heavy toll on him.

As the stress of their failing chicken farm takes a toll on their once - happy relationship, Millie (Christy Scott Cashman) and Al (Jay Harrington) receive an unusual offer that could help to patch up the holes in their troubled marriage.

His mostly - happy marriage to Watts is shadowed by the fact that they've given up on having children after several failed attempts.

What's more surprising is that Ghost Protocol is more of a direct sequel to the events of M: I 3, including a backstory on how Ethan's marriage with Julia (Michelle Monaghan) failed.

Charting the fortunes and (mostly) misfortunes of Paul Giamatti's eponymous anti-hero, principally his three failed marriages, Lewis and novice screenwriter Michael Konyves have fashioned a busy, baggy flashback structure that races through some key plot points as it leaves others dangling, and never makes good on its literary opening gambit to tell the story as Barney's autobiography.

The film didn't do this, as it failed to get to the real person and spent all its time on surface material and marriage spats that looked like artificial acting devices even though the actors had a good screen chemistry together.

From dealing with failed marriages and sibling spats to an oversharing mother who talks about the size of her deceased husband's penis, «TIWILY» doesn't harp on the loss of a father; instead, it uses the death as an excuse to peer into the petri dish of familial relationships.

The issue is not that the film fails to «repair» these three marriages, or to showcase some sort of profound personal growth in these individuals; for a movie that seems sincerely curious about what makes healthy relationships work, it taps only into their most familiar problems, and then relies on cute, superficial solutions to them.