When my wife accused him of promoting an institution with a nearly 50 percent failure rate, he sidestepped deftly, saying that marriage conferred many healthful benefits.

Sacramental marriage confers a perpetual and exclusive bond between the spouses.

It made me think about the notion that parenthood or marriage confers instant maturity.

"It seems to me very likely that it's the healthier and wealthier people who are the ones getting married, not that marriage confers those benefits."

Such a daughter keeps her precedence if marrying a commoner (unless that marriage somehow confers a higher precedence), but rank as their husband if marrying a peer.

Her marriage conferred the title of Marquise du Chastellet.

Nevertheless, marriage does not confer upon the spouses the right to have a child, but only the right to perform those natural acts which are per se ordered to procreation.

I remembered the way Gloria always said "your wife" as if Fiona existed only by means of the status our marriage conferred upon her.

Her marriage with Maximilian, which took place at Rennes by proxy on 19 December 1490, conferred upon Anne the title Queen of the Romans, but proved to have serious consequences.