ties of marriage

Susannah is an independent woman who shuns the formal ties of marriage.

But can the emotional ties of marriage lead to undue political influence on the part of one spouse or another?

None of these ties of marriage would ultimately help solidify his hold on the throne.

Ties of marriage - not for the first time, Moses thought about that possibility with narrowed eyes, it was time he married anyway.

He and his sons became closely connected to the Palaiologos dynasty through ties of marriage.

Many minor noble families were caught in the feuds of the great families by ties of marriage.

Such ties of marriage create alliances which, as Tylor shrewdly saw, may help to discourage enmity or to compose differences between otherwise mutually hostile tribes.

"It seems I, at least, am bound for Khebbel-im-Akkad, to see how strongly the ties of marriage bind the loyalty of blood.

Furthermore gens and phratries are linked to other gens and phratries through ties of marriage.

Finn's Frisian thanes, who have ties of marriage and friendship to Finn's Jutish thanes, join in the fight against the Danes.

They held key political, diplomatic and military posts at the court and were distinguished for their particular loyalty to the royal Bagrationi dynasty with which they had ties of marriage.

The family of the first-born Michele i Gravisi created ties of marriage with the Barbabianca and Bocchina families.

Cassiodorus, Theodoric's spokesman, thought the causes of the conflict were minor, and tried, unsuccessfully, to prevent war breaking out by drawing attention to the ties of marriage which united the kings.

These networks constitute a generative demographic engine for health, a potential for large sibling groups, and for extensive cooperation within and between these groups constructed through reciprocal ties of marriage.

Raffaele Riario: Related to the Roveres through ties of marriage, he is allegedly one of Guiliano's supporters and a key conspirator in the Pazzi Conspiracy.

We are told that in America, the focus is on the woman's right to vote and equal pay whereas the European woman is more concerned about her right to live her life free from the ties of marriage.

The opposition between "consanguinity" and "affinity", that is between relationships based on ties of filiation as against relationships based on ties of marriage, frequently matches the contrast between asymmetrical hierarchy and symmetrical equality.

But this was not a justification for the dissolution of an association of this kind; the different republics and nationalities were bound together by a common history, by ties of marriage and settlement, and by the trade that they conducted with each other.

In the 18th and 19th centuries families in West Cork and South Kerry such as the O'Donovans, the O'Leary, the O'Sullivans, the Sweeneys, McCarthys managed to acquire leasehold interests as middlemen and had close ties of marriage with each other.