Sentences with phrase «women upon marriage»

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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.

We give thanks that Jesus bestowed upon him 55 years of marriage to the woman he loved — a woman who could match him at every step, and even hold him accountable.

Those of us who believe that human flourishing depends upon the recognition and honoring of marriage as exclusively the union of a man and a woman see this transformation of marriage into something radically different as a grave threat to human society and human happiness.

What kind of country have we become when people who believe that marriage is for a man and a woman, are reviled and spit upon.

Quit trying to define marriage and women's reproductive rights based upon your personal religious beliefs.

Our education, service and advocacy depend upon the adequacy of our theological vision — the way we interpret Scripture and tradition regarding relations between women and men, sex, marriage, parenting and violence.

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

Before we get to the trickiest sexual questions, based upon what many people are already doing, our book deals with marriage in the context of friendship, men's and women's roles and responsibilities and how to deal with sin so that marriage gets better rather than bitter.

But then I stumbled upon a study that looked at the ramifications of women delaying marriage that I hadn't seen addressed before — the «poor - match effect.»

Her comment of Camille as a «tough woman» could not have come at a more interesting time, as I had just stumbled upon a study, «Black Marriage Through the Prism of Gender Race, and Class,» by Kecia R. Johnson, an assistant professor at Florida State University, and Karyn Loscocco, a sociologist at the University of Albany.

I thought about that when I stumbled upon an article in the Washington Post that culled GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump's comments on women, sex, marriage and feminism taken straight from his books.

Assuming a marriage has occurred, a woman will look down upon a man who has gone down in financial status, whereas a man will not look down upon a woman who does down in financial status.

This website has thousands upon thousands of beautiful and sincere Southeast Asian women that are looking for a chance at love and marriage.

I am sure that marriage with a Ukrainian woman is not based upon exploitation and slavery.

A maiden name is «the name or surname of a woman before taking her husband's surname upon marriage.»

Originally conceived to prevent women from being dismissed upon marrying, marriage discrimination now prevents those who are married or civil partners from being subjected to any type of discrimination.

Cheated - upon spouses occasionally inquire whether they can sue the other man (or woman) for breaking up their marriage.

The majority of people affected were women who had lost status upon marriage to a Non-Status male.

This is the third time (yes, indeed) that Turkey's Constitutional Court dealt with this case — each time with identical facts (a woman asking to keep her name upon marriage)-- and the second time it has done so since the European Court of Human Rights delivered a violation judgment against Turkey on the very same issue.

The system remains bias towards women who automatically get custody of the children upon the separation of the marriage.

Under that system, women gave up their personal property rights upon marriage.

But then I stumbled upon a study that looked at the ramifications of women delaying marriage that I hadn't seen addressed before — the «poor - match effect.»