What's the difference between clandestinity and marriage?

Clandestinity


Definition:

  • (n.) Privacy or secrecy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Galli said there were already about 200,000 hospitalisations of women who have undergone a clandestine termination every year, and a suspected 1 million illegal abortions before the epidemic.
  • (2) A 4-methyl derivative of aminorex has recently appeared on the clandestine market as a designer drug.
  • (3) A series of clandestine lunches has been held by Stuart Wheeler, a former Tory donor who is now trying to persuade MPs to jump ship.
  • (4) Only 2 married men informed their female sex partner (regular partner) of their clandestine activity.
  • (5) The deep state originally meant the military, police and intelligence networks which assigned themselves the task of defending the secular Kemalist regime against both Islamists and leftists and often used clandestine means to do so.
  • (6) The microfilmed files obtained by the CIA – in what the Americans described as a "clandestine operation" which may have included a pay-off to a rogue KGB agent – are the key because they contain copies of the card indexes of the HVA, listing the real names of all the agents, informers and targets of the Stasi's foreign operations.
  • (7) We announce that there will be no differentiation between ‘good’ and ‘bad’ Taliban ,” he said, referring to the Pakistani military’s long history of clandestine support for those militant groups it believes support its own strategic objectives.
  • (8) Liberalization of abortion laws occurred to reduce or eliminate the disastrous effects of criminal abortions performed by unskilled people under clandestine and unsafe conditions.
  • (9) Ten more dead and 900 clandestine migrants ready to disembark,” Salvini said on Wednesday.
  • (10) Most importantly, he sat on the intelligence committee, the Senate’s sole oversight board of the clandestine agencies, where he was one of just a few dissenting members.
  • (11) The former Belfast IRA commander Brendan Hughes posthumously claimed in taped testimony, for the US university Boston College, that Gerry Adams gave the order for the widow to be shot dead but buried clandestinely in order to avoid any negative publicity for the republican movement.
  • (12) But those involved in the clandestine discussions over the past few days said there had to be secrecy, partly because Clegg had said he must talk to the Conservatives first.
  • (13) More alarmingly, since 2008, when a local tabloid newspaper published photographs of a clandestine gay wedding in Dakar, police have been cracking down, many homosexuals have gone into hiding or fled abroad (including to Gambia, whose president told them they should leave again within 24 hours or face decapitation), nine gay activists have been jailed after coming out, and the bodies of at least four gay men have been exhumed from their graves and dragged through the streets by jeering mobs.
  • (14) In surveys of poverty neighborhoods in New York City conducted in 1965 and 1967, it became apparent that clandestine abortions were more frequently reported as occurring when the woman was married and had one to three children than before marriage or after three children had already been born.
  • (15) Park said the ballooning would be done clandestinely, with the pace picking up in March when he expects the wind direction to become more favourable.
  • (16) It knew Iguala was a clandestine cemetery.” Omar Garcia, one of several Ayotzinapa students who survived the attack, said the incident had crystalised the widespread sense that political corruption was driving Mexico’s descent into violence.
  • (17) Infanticide remained clandestine in ages when the Church was powerful.
  • (18) In 2011 the army was humiliated by the unilateral US special forces raid on the lair of former al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden and the persistence of supposedly clandestine strikes by US drones, the advanced unmanned aircraft Washington has refused to share with Pakistan.
  • (19) Our meeting is not clandestine, exactly: we sit by the window to eat our open sandwiches.
  • (20) There were clandestine reporter meetings in Washington, Munich, and London.

Marriage


Definition:

  • (v. t.) The act of marrying, or the state of being married; legal union of a man and a woman for life, as husband and wife; wedlock; matrimony.
  • (v. t.) The marriage vow or contract.
  • (v. t.) A feast made on the occasion of a marriage.
  • (v. t.) Any intimate or close union.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An intact post-injury marriage was associated with improvement in education.
  • (2) Johnson and Campion are optimistic that marriage equality will win out, and soon.
  • (3) During the couple's 30-year marriage she had twice reported him to the police for grabbing her by the throat, before they divorced in 2005.
  • (4) Movies such as Concussion , about the dissatisfactions of a bourgeois lesbian marriage, are already starting to ask these questions.
  • (5) Yet, polls have Maryland voters approving same-sex marriage by 14 to 20 points.
  • (6) He has also been a vocal opponent of gay marriage, appearing on the Today programme in the run-up to the same-sex marriage bill to warn that it would "cause confusion" – and asking in a Spectator column, after it was passed, "if the law will eventually be changed to allow one to marry one's dog".
  • (7) A federal judge struck down Utah's same-sex marriage ban Friday in a decision that brings a nationwide shift toward allowing gay marriage to a conservative state where the Mormon church has long been against it.
  • (8) "Today a federal district court put up a roadblock on a path constructed by 21 federal court rulings over the last year – a path that inevitably leads to nationwide marriage equality," said Sarah Warbelow, legal director for the Human Rights Campaign.
  • (9) It wasn't the best marriage – Jackie left me in 1962 when my first son, Paul, was 18 months old.
  • (10) The author discusses marriages in which a basically insecure husband plays a god-like role and his wife, who initially worshipped him, matures and finds her situation depressing and degrading.
  • (11) But she has struggled – quite awkwardly – to articulate her evolution on same-sex marriage, and has left environmental activists wondering what her exact energy policy is.
  • (12) Pope Francis’s no-longer-secret meeting in Washington DC with anti-gay activist Kim Davis, the controversial Kentucky county clerk who was briefly jailed over her refusal to issue same-sex marriage licenses in compliance with state law, leaves LGBT people with no illusions about the Pope’s stance on equal rights for us, despite his call for inclusiveness.
  • (13) America's same-sex couples, and the politicians who have barred gay marriage in 30 states, are looking to the supreme court to hand down a definitive judgment on where the constitution stands on an issue its framers are unlikely to have imagined would ever be considered.
  • (14) I thought she had been put out of her misery by marriage but now she is a widow.
  • (15) If we were to have a plebiscite before the end of the year, and you were to reverse-engineer that, it would make interesting speculation about the timing of an election.” Abetz said in January he would need to see whether a plebiscite was “above board or whether the question is stacked” before deciding to heed any result in favour of marriage equality.
  • (16) A case of fragile-X syndrome (the Martin-Bell syndrome) in two male half-sibs from different marriages of their mother was described.
  • (17) The ACT’s opposition leader, Jeremy Hanson, said during Tuesday’s debate that the uncertainty surrounding the new same-sex marriage regime created significant problems for couples, and he suggested the territory could be liable to compensation if it pushed ahead of the tolerance of the commonwealth, rather than waiting for the legalities to be settled.
  • (18) Same-sex marriage: supreme court's swing votes hang in the balance – live Read more The court heard legal arguments for two and a half hours, in a landmark challenge to state bans on same-sex marriage that is expected to yield a decision in June.
  • (19) The fairytales – which have been distributed by leaflet to universities around Singapore – include versions of Cinderella, the Three Little Pigs, Rapunzel and Snow White, each involving a reworked tale that relates to fertility, sex or marriage, and a resulting moral.
  • (20) It is likely that many of the girls end up working in brothels, but due to the stigma of being a sex worker they will usually report they were forced into marriage.

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