Al Sharpton, former Pentecostal minister, now a Baptist minister and Civil rights leader, during his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004 said that asking whether gays or lesbians should be able to get married was insulting: " That's like saying you give blacks, or whites, or Latinos the right to shack up – but not get married [...] It's like asking ' do I support black marriage or white marriage '...

Betrothal ( erusin ), which is merely a binding promise to get married, is distinct from marriage itself ( nissu ' in ), with the time between these events varying substantially.

Previously, if a Coptic Orthodox and Greek Orthodox wanted to get married, the marriage had to be performed twice, once in each church, for it to be recognized by both.

When Lemmy was 10, his mother married George Willis, who already had two older children from a previous marriage, Patricia and Tony, with whom Lemmy did not get along.

Henry II planned to divide his and his wife's territories between their sons, of which there were three at the time ; Henry would become King of England and have control of Anjou, Maine, and Normandy, while Richard would inherit Aquitaine from his mother and become Count of Poitiers, and Geoffrey would get Brittany through marriage alliance with Constance, the heiress to the region.

Baldwin was able to get the then five Dominion Prime Ministers to agree with this consensus, and thus register their official disapproval at the King's planned marriage.

Æthelred's eldest son, Æthelstan had long been recognised as heir apparent, and charter evidence shows that Edward ranked behind all Æthelred's sons by his first marriage, but Æthelstan died in June 1014, and Emma now tried to get her own son, the ten year old Edward, recognised as heir.

Actor Gary Lockwood, who also acted in the film, felt that " Kazan and Natalie were a terrific marriage, because you had this beautiful girl, and you had somebody that could get things out of her.

For example, in the New York Times bestseller The Bitch in the House, a woman describes her marriage: " I'm fine all day at work, but as soon as I get home, I'm a horror .... I'm the bitch in the house.

Generally, it is granted for a set period of time so the other party can get back on their feet after the termination of the marriage.

“ Alcott particularly battled the conventional marriage plot in writing Little Women ” Alcott did not have Jo accept Laurie ’ s hand in marriage ; rather, when she finally had Jo get married, she picked an unconventional man for Jo ’ s husband.

Apu tries to wriggle out of the arrangement at first, with Homer making Marge pretend to be his wife until Apu's mother finds her with Homer, but is won over when he meets Manjula face-to-face at the wedding, and the two decide to give the marriage a try ( Manjula notes nonchalantly that they can always get a divorce ).

After the marriage of his niece, Eleanor of Provence to King Henry III of England, Henry attempted to have Boniface elected Bishop of Winchester, but was unable to get the cathedral chapter to elect Boniface.

Princess Shalmar refuses to marry Jeff, even though Orville is eager to get out of the marriage.

Jeff realizes why Orville was so eager to get out of the marriage, but decides not to tell him.

Because Crown Point had no waiting period for marriage licenses, the city became a popular place to get married and became known as the " Marriage Mill ".

William of Tyre claims that Raymond seduced Eleanor to get revenge on her husband, who refused to aid him in his wars against the Saracens, and that " contrary to royal dignity, she disregarded her marriage vows and was unfaithful to her husband.

* A previous marriage to Grant Chambers, whom her son Rick Forrester would shoot in 1997, causing Grant to divorce Brooke and immediately get involved with Macy Alexander before he died of cancer in 1998.

Whereas Herminia Barton questions the institution of marriage by refusing to get married herself, Victoria Crosse's heroine Eurydice Williamson -- " the woman who didn't "— remains faithful to her impossible husband although, during a passage from India, she meets a man who falls in love with her.

Through the brief 12th Session of early 1674, Shaftesbury and his friends, flexing their new muscles, steered a slew of provocative bills in the House of Lords, e. g. expelling Catholics from London, forcing an oath that renounced the Pope, requiring royal family members to get parliamentary consent on marriage and how to raise their children.

Sometimes he woke up in the middle of the night thinking of Ann, and then could not get back to sleep.

She lay there, making no effort to get back on her feet.

The rest of us can fort up in the house and hang on until you get back.

sufficiently, at least, to get them back into town.

`` Got a lot to tend to, but I'll get back quick as I can '', he assured her.

I didn't get a good look at him at all, his back was to me, and I was so scared It was just somebody in a man's suit.

Let me set the record this time, and let me get back OK, so the German will give me the exclusive.

If you'd get out of your back yard once in a while you might even get her your ownself ''.

`` That's all right '', she said, tossing her head back to get the hair out of her eyes.

Although after much trouble he did manage to get it back, he discovered there was no trade to be had.

But to get back to the Coolidge household, Mrs. Coolidge so obviously loved dogs, that the public sent her more dogs -- Calamity Jane, Timmy, and Blackberry.

In addition, it is small enough to get into crevices, jacket and crown margins, malposed anteriors, and the back teeth.

The most articulate Republicans are those who, in their desire to get back at Mr. Kennedy, already have created the image of a Republican leadership which is reluctant to assist the distressed and the unemployed, and which is even more unwilling to help old people who need medical care.

it took them over an hour to get back to the station where they should have changed, in order to take the line that went to the Place Redoute.

Honest I could feel the hair stand up on the back of my neck like a dog's that is going to get into a fight.

How about me trying to help her get her job back??

Usually back in Concord by noon, there was just time to get partially thawed out, refuel, and grab a bit of Mrs. Fogg's hot broth before starting the second trip.

Well, to get back to the problem of retirement.

When you see a needle in my hands you will know the family buttons have fallen off and I have to sew them back on, or get out the safety pins.

There is much to be said for a college that, while happily attuned to the sophisticated Ivies, still gives its students a chance to get up early in the morning and drive along back roads where a glimpse of small game, deer, or even bear is not uncommon.

The counters rode through the pasture countin' each bunch of grazin' cattle, and drifted it back so that it didn't get mixed with the uncounted cattle ahead.

She went in to get the hamburgers, and I switched on the device again and kept the signal from Dowling's car coming in steady and clear until I saw her starting back with the hamburgers.

`` I have to get back to Jarrodsville '', he went on.