Sentences with phrase «of a shotgun wedding»
In the 31 years since, he has sailed into every harbor on the Maine coast, raised crops and cattle, guided on Merrymeeting Bay, won the state skeet championship, married the attractive daughter of an old Maine market hunter and guide (it was kind of a shotgun wedding: they went duck shooting before and after the ceremony), sold boats and finally settled into the excursion - boat business.
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But they might accept the pragmatic realism of a shotgun wedding if those are the circumstances voters force upon them.
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One prominent feature of many marriages then was the pressure on men to marry women whom they impregnated, resulting in shotgun weddings and «premature» births.
Most fairy tales conveniently end at the beginning of the relationship — an epic kiss or shotgun wedding.
Chemistry is everything, and this crew looks like they were the product of some sort of corporate shotgun wedding and not a cohesive fighting team like the Avengers.
Given WG's sterling reputation (it was already running a successful data system for the city's schools) and the exigencies of Race to the Top deadlines to get the performance tracking system going, the contract might have overcome the appearance of conflict in the Murdoch / Klein shotgun wedding (News Corp says Klein had nothing to do with the purchase of WG), but it couldn't survive the smell of the hacking scandal.
Date rape, a pregnant teen, and a shotgun wedding (of sorts)-- must be a YA problem novel circa 1985, right?
LACMA Offers MOCA a Shotgun Wedding LACMA has laid out a formal offer to take over L.A.'s troubled Museum of Contemporary Art.
For anyone who has been around the legal industry for awhile, these name changes were made even more confusing by the fact that ALM, nee American Lawyer Media, was itself borne out of the earlier shotgun wedding of two legal - publishing companies that were long - time competitors.
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