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Marriages within the church are solemnized in public meeting of some kind.

She added that the statement did not "solemnize" the relationship.

Very few people were aware of our marriage until the day after it had been solemnized.

The policy itself states that the purpose of the message is "to solemnize the event."

If you want to solemnize your love affair by some ceremony, create one.

But the elderly neighbor had died before the marriage could be solemnized.

He was also "long a justice of the peace, and solemnized many marriages".

Of course, such marriages are not solemnized following tribal custom.

That all marriages shall be legal, and not solemnized in Scotland.

Unless these vows are solemnized, none of us will leave this place while we can stand and fight.

Marriages are also solemnized here on a large scale.

Section 43 clarifies that a marriage may be solemnized at any time and day.

A bonus to solemnize the fact that she could never be a soloist?

"Drink then of the ancient vintage, to solemnize this new dignity!"

A valid marriage must be properly solemnized within the rules of the province.

There is concern that religious communities might not be able to decide what type of marriages to solemnize.

The opinion did not address clergy members, who are also empowered to solemnize marriages.

Since that time however Pentecost Monday is no longer solemnized.

Marriages solemnized after July 3, 1981 are questionable in legality due to the above case law.

The wedding was later solemnized on June 6.

The rituals of anointment, as performed and solemnized, are supposed to be sacred.

A group of local residents found several clergymen to solemnize marriages starting at noon.

"Not here," the soldier whispered, and the marriage was solemnized.'

Will nothing solemnise you - not even this hideous situation?"

Religious marriage officers may not solemnise civil partnerships.

However, a compromise was made to solemnise the marriage according to the rites of the Roman Catholic Church.

He is on vacation in his hometown, Kozhikode in order to solemnise his daughter's engagement.

The news of his arrival spread through Paris with the rapidity of lightning, and every one wished to solemnise his entrance into the capital.

For example, they may be used as a wedding ring to solemnise a marriage ceremony; or as a ligature to prevent nocturnal enuresis.

It is the prohibition against deacons pronouncing blessings that leads some to believe that deacons cannot solemnise matrimony.

They may also solemnise marriages in the Registry of Marriages or perform the duties of the Magistrate conferred on them by any written law.

The town, which did not wish to be outdone, voted a like sum, which was placed in the hands of that notable body to solemnise the auspicious event.

He will require the wali to ask him to marry his daughter(or ward) off on his behalf as by law, he is required to solemnise the marriage.

At that time, only the priest of the Sri Mariamman Temple was authorised to solemnise Hindu marriages in Singapore.

Nevertheless he ordered Caretto to turn thirty guns against the mosque, cannon, mortars and howitzers, intending, he said, to solemnise Bairam by discharges of artillery.

Government officials (primarily magistrates and Home Affairs civil servants) who are appointed as marriage officers under the Marriage Act are also automatically appointed to solemnise civil partnerships.

The Marriage Amendment Act, 1973 allowed religious marriage officers to follow their religion's marriage formula to solemnise the marriage instead of using the formula prescribed in the act.

The State Government, may, by notification in the official Gazette, grant licences to Ministers of Religion to solemnise marriages within such territories, and may, by a like notification, revoke such licences.

Australian Great War battalion and brigade war diaries show that on this first anniversary, units including those on the front line, made efforts to solemnise the memory of those who were killed this day twelve months previously.

But where one of the parties to a marriage in India is a Christian and the other party is a non-Christian the best course to adopt is to solemnise the marriage under the Special Marriage Act, 1954.

Having been put in judicial custody in Tihar Central Jail, New Delhi, Chavan was granted bail from 31 May to 6 June to solemnise his marriage which had been fixed for 2 June, 2013.

The Court laid down: "when the ecclesiastical court grants annulment or divorce, the church authorities would still continue under a disability to perform or solemnise a second marriage for any of the parties until the marriage is dissolved or annulled in accordance with the statutory law in force in this regard."