Sentences with phrase «than a marriage of»

There are countless ways to look at the implications of Amazon's proposed $ 13.7 billion takeover of Whole Foods, that it's the latest salvo in the battle between Amazon and Walmart to be the one place where everyone shops for everything, that it's a disruption to the supply chain model in the grocery business, or that it's nothing more than a marriage of convenience to save Whole Foods from the ire of its activist shareholders.

«DOMA instructs all federal officials, and indeed all persons with whom same - sex couples interact, including their own children, that their marriage is less worthy than the marriages of others,» Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote for the court.

What could be better than the marriage of the two prints!?

Is there anything more exciting today in schools than the marriage of technology and pedagogy?

While many carmakers spent the better part of the last decade playing catch - up in the hybrid market, Nissan was content with the limited release of just one hybrid — which was itself nothing more than the marriage of the company's best selling model and the Toyota Camry's hybrid system.

Marriages of the children of divorce actually have a much higher rate of divorce than the marriages of children from intact families.

But it's more than a marriage of convenience.

Not exact matches

The former «Hills» star and the BMX rider broke up in September after less than a year of marriage.

According to research by Jeffrey Dew, a faculty fellow with the University of Virginia's National Marriage Project, couples who fight about finances once a week are 30 % more likely to divorce than those who disagree on the topic a few times per month.

A study from 2009 now getting buzz on the blogosphere explored the role marriage plays in the lesbian wage premium, and found that women who don't expect to be part of a traditional family spend more time investing in labour participation through on - the - job training and working longer hours than household skills.

A marriage of the Tribune and Medium would make sense for more reasons than just technical ones related to keeping a site up and running.

«In some states, the courts will agree to tack on prior years of cohabitating... so it's viewed as a longer - term marriage than the legal date,» Kauffman said.

Eli Finkel: We have arrived at a moment in history where the best marriages are better than the best marriages of earlier eras, while at the same time, the average marriages are getting a little bit worse.

And while people were much more likely to «mate for life» in the past, today a sizable share have children with more than one partner — sometimes within marriage, and sometimes outside of it.

The fact that in western Europe between a tenth and a fifth of each generation never married, combined with a relatively late average age at marriage for women, implied that fertility levels were normally lower than in other societies.

Most of us go into marriage, or cohabitation, without much of a strategy other than an «I love you and I want to make it work» so it is not long before the issue of money rears its ugly head.

It was frequently the case that celibacy was almost unknown and the average age of marriage for women was far lower than in western Europe, often close to the attainment of sexual maturity.

Unfortunately, most startup businesses require some form of debt that many millennials just don't want to take,» she said, adding, «Millennials tend to do things later than previous generations — like marriage and kids — and I don't think entrepreneurship is an exception.»

What matters for the well - being of children is family stability, rather than marriage per se.

I don't see Christians as more honest, more faithful in marriage, less violent, more giving, more polite, or more anything than the millions of people who are indifferent to religion and who only go to a church if there is a wedding or a funeral.

Why are you listening to black clerics over this issue, Blacks are having more kids out of wed lock than whites, they are also like white, living in sin, but the church's say nothing about having babies without a husband or sitting in church and living in sin, talk about glass houses, and besides the marriages are Cival marriage not religious marriage, what a bunch of hipocrites..

In contrast, even in «transient» cities like San Francisco and New York, less than half of millennials listed marriage or not being ready to settle down as a reason.

There is no place where the Bible actually states that marriage * should * be between a man and a woman, rather than just discussing it as a statement of fact.

But what is the reason of principle that can be given by those who, while rejecting the idea that sexual - reproductive complementarity is an essential element of marriage, do not --- or do not yet --- wish to give up the idea of marriage as the sexually exclusive union of two, and not more than two, persons?

Why is that that people who are against gay marriage can't think of anything other than butt se.x when discussing the topic?

If he's giving a de facto license to abandon your marriage or tell married couples that they're somehow less than married, then you can go ahead and add my name to the list of those who think his words are irresponsible.

by Lori Gottlieb — a single mother who conceived her only child with donor sperm rather than miss out on motherhood as she has on marriage — is a frank and excruciatingly personal look into some of the sexual revolution's lonelier venues, including the creation of children by anonymous or absent sperm donors, the utter corrosiveness of taking a consumerist approach to romance, and the miserable effects of advancing age on one's sexual marketability.

The Pope even recounted that this guy was more concerned with the wedding venue coordinating with his fiancee's dress and the logistics of commuting to the reception than he was the marriage commitment itself.

Marrying mostly among themselves, and at a high rate (in 1989, Helmreich reports, 83 percent of survivors were married, compared to 62 percent of American Jews in the same age group), they often resorted to what Helmreich calls «pragmatic marriages»» made more for a bed, a blanket, and security than for any grander dreams.

Less than half of David Cameron's party voted in favour of same - sex marriage, with the Prime Minister needing support from other parties to get the legislation through.

There were two main camps at the time: that represented by Jovinian, claiming that virgins, widows, and married women were all deserving of equal merit, and that represented by Jerome, which said that marriage was merely the lesser of two evils, rather than something positive in its own right.

It was, rather, to show proponents of same - sex marriage that «the other side» is reasonable and that their arguments are worth engaging, rather than dismissing out of hand as irrational and merely or privately religious.

Recognition of marriage serves the ends of limited government more effectively, less intrusively, and at less cost than does picking up the pieces from a shattered marriage culture.

I can't think of any worse reason to marry anyone, than marriage being the only way to get them to sleep with me.

But in the very next chapter, he praises celibacy as a higher calling — a better way of serving Christ — than marriage.

In human history, the actual living out of marriage as a lifelong union has been the exception rather than rule.

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I don't like the insults here and calling of names in a effort to intimidate, I don't want gay marriage and God is real, alive and has been more faithful to me and helped me more than any person.

To defend traditional marriage [he wrote] is not to condemn, demean, or humiliate those who would prefer other arrangements, any more than to defend the Constitution of the United States is to condemn, demean, or humiliate other constitutions.

So I think your blog might qualify... though again, it is more of a blog about parenting and marriage than about Scripture and theology, and Paul's is quite a bit like Hyatt's, in that it is about leadership and influence.

To accept gay marriage as a genuine expression of marriage — and to treat it as such in the parish office, even if we could then keep it out of the parish church — would be vastly more destructive than accepting divorce (which has been bad).

So that the marriage union betwixt Christ and you is more than a bare notion or apprehension of your mind; for it is a special, spiritual, and real union: it is an union betwixt the nature of Christ, God and man, and you; it is a knitting and closing, not only of your apprehension with a Saviour, but also of your soul with a Saviour.

Marriages were typically based on economic considerations, not love, with wives holding a higher position than slaves in the household, but still functioning in many ways as the property of their husbands, who could do with them as they willed.

She is personally in favour of same - sex marriage but believes that silence is more harmful than teaching the classic biblical interpretation in a sensitive way.

This arises from a warped and stunted notion of sexual ethics which offers nothing to say about the subject other than that it's acceptable within marriage and unacceptably wicked in any other context.

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.

The model of Jesus, John the Baptist, and Paul has not yet enabled even biblically serious Evangelicals to shape a theology that would affirm celibacy as anything more than a regrettable alternative to more - or-less mandatory marriage.

God does not delight in the marriage of two 25 - year - olds more than in the marriage of two 65 - year - olds simply because the younger couple may have a longer time together.

The study, issued in late 1991, relied heavily on the feminist depiction of sexual relationships as expressions of power, and in every way indicated that «committed relationships,» rather than the created order of marriage, would frame its discussion of sexuality.

Our marriage union with husband or wife can not be more clear, more sure, more matter of fact, than our oneness with Christ and our enjoyment of that oneness.