(n.) Connection by marriage; reciprocal marriage; giving and taking in marriage, as between two families, tribes, castes, or nations.
Example Sentences:
(1) Many Iraqis grew up in households where it was rude to refer to people's sectarian identity, and where intermarriage created large families of mixed religious practice.
(2) Indeed, there is nothing more the Romany like to do than fight among themselves over who is the purest Gypsy, but one only needs to take a glance at Britain's Romany community to realise there has undoubtedly been a great deal of intermarriage.
(3) The computation of the coefficient of inbreeding of these subjects showed that repeated intermarriages increased the coefficient of kinship of the propositus and her husband to 0.116 (if unknown women of the ancestry were assumed to be different for each child) through 0,1362 (if unknown women of the ancestry were assumed to be the same for sibs).
(4) There is less overt homophobia, sexism or racism (and much more racial intermarriage) in Britain than 30 years ago and racial discrimination is the most politically sensitive form of unfairness.
(5) They relied on the generosity of Manusians and, eventually, intermarriage to get access to gardens and fisheries to sustain themselves and their families.
(6) There was intermarriage among numerous family members.
(7) They have full access to Syrian schools and universities on the same basis as citizens … And because their numbers are tiny compared to the general Syrian population (less than 2%), the refugees were never perceived as a threat, and the degree of integration between Palestinians and Syrians – through work, education, and intermarriage – has no parallel in the Arab world.” For Yarmouk to become a spectacle of suffering far worse than Gaza marked an indelible stain on Bashar al-Assad When I first visited Yarmouk in March 2003, it was a hotbed of anger towards the American invasion of Iraq, which had just began.
(8) The pattern of intermarriage produces from generation to generation an increasing number of children with such abnormalities.
(9) "Intermarriage as an act of agression against the parents is in my opinion as likely as intermarriage an an act of social justice," he writes.
(10) The absence of intermarriage between these two subpopulations indicates genetic differences distinguish them.
(11) The combination of anomalies described in each affected member is consistent with Roberts syndrome and the prevalence of intermarriage in this kindred could suggest an autosomal recessive mode of inheritance.
(12) An offspring resulting from intermarriage between the two families is genotypically homozygous for this variant.
(13) I live in downtown Toronto, in one of the most liberal neighborhoods in one of the most open cities in the world, where multiculturalism is the dominant civic value and the inert virtue of tolerance is the most prominent inheritance of the British empire, so if you squint you can pretend the ancient categories are dissipating into a haze of enlightenment and intermarriage.
(14) Lucie laughs off the idea that she would ever marry a Hutu, for all the talk of intermarriage as evidence of reconciliation.
(15) Despite widespread intermarriage between races in New Zealand there was, in nearly all systems tested, a significant difference in the frequency of genetic markers.
(16) The patient's history disclosed a family intermarriage in his grandparents.
(17) In a group of 203 mainly severely mentally retarded children born 1975-1985, we found the etiology to be related to two main factors: (1) sequele from high perinatal morbidity or meningitis in infancy leading to a combination of severe mental retardation and cerebral palsy; (2) a high degree of intermarriage and a high frequency of retarded siblings indicating that genetic causes of MR are common.
(18) Individuals from families where there had been no intermarriage with non-Icelandic individuals were eligible.
(19) A Turkish family with frequent intermarriages is described, in which two siblings were born with persistent forms of congenital hypothyroidism, in the elder child concomitant with absent radioactive thyroid imaging.
(20) The Italo-Greek ethnolinguistic minority, living in thirteen villages of southern Italy, marry largely amongst themselves but there are some intermarriages with native Italians.
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.