Sentences with word «solemnization»

Solemnization of marriage is an example where Canadian institutions recognize status acquired abroad, even though most marriage laws around the world are discriminatory if seen through 21st - century Canadian eyes.

The court ruled that the policy in question violates Section 17 (1)(b) of the Citizenship Regulations under the Citizenship Act, which requires that a citizenship judge «administer the oath of citizenship with dignity and solemnity, allowing the greatest possible freedom in the religious solemnization or the solemn affirmation thereof.»

Why is it religious and sectarian when an elementary school teacher prays in front of a class room of children, but a mere nonreligious solemnization when a President stands in front of the nation and swears, on a Bible, so help him God, to carry out the office to which he has been entrusted?

Symbolically, though, this is a powerful solemnization of self - centeredness.

Repeals sunset on increases in certain filing fees, fees for writs of garnishment, and marriage solemnization fees.

Of course, for those of us beholden to the beauty of Christ's solemnization of human sexuality, who live with an invigorating fear of God, and who dare to hope that every man might stand justified on the day of judgment, the «blasphemy» of the young doctor sounds like reverence, his naïve «intolerance» like charity.

Section 17 (1)(b) of the Citizenship Regulations provides that a citizenship judge shall «administer the oath of citizenship with dignity and solemnity, allowing the greatest possible freedom in the religious solemnization or the solemn affirmation thereof» (my emphasis).

I suppose that Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor might say that such use of the Bible and prayer are merely «solemnizations» bereft of religious or sectarian content.

It relates to the solemnization of marriage, which is within provincial jurisdiction.