• Every year tens of thousands of people marry into Britain or join their families here.

    BBC: In full: David Cameron immigration speech

  • Rising in three generations from artisan to high middle class, the Bells were beginning to marry into the aristocracy.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'Gertrude Bell'

  • Villagers say that no girl may marry into a neighbouring village until her in-laws promise to provide a girl in return.

    ECONOMIST: Struggling to cope with a dearth of brides

  • Plenty of people marry into the family company of their spouse.

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  • He had married an Asian woman and stayed in the Orient (What better way to understand culture than to marry into it, and then live and work in it).

    FORBES: The Secret Of Success In China

  • Nazneen (Tannishtha Chatterjee), a beautiful Bangladeshi girl who, in the nineteen-eighties, gets sent to London to marry an established businessman, settles into Brick Lane, a traditional immigrant enclave.

    NEWYORKER: Brick Lane

  • The 40-year-old, who works for Montpellier's tourism office, expressed his gratitude to those who had helped win the controversial right for same-sex couples to marry, legislation that was signed into law 10 days ago by President Francois Hollande.

    CNN: French same-sex couple: Why we tied the knot

  • This acquaintance eventually turned into a friendship and he promised to marry me.

    BBC: Iranian press report on condemned German

  • And so young women often drift "unintentionally" into parenthood with men whom they believe are not good enough to marry or not ready for it.

    WSJ: The New Unmarried Moms

  • It is inconsistent, they say, for governments that do not allow young people to vote, buy alcohol, drive, marry without their parents' consent or accept certain kinds of civilian employment to send them into mortal danger instead.

    ECONOMIST: Kalashnikov kids

  • Former President Bill Clinton, who signed the marriage law into effect 17 years ago, said this month he now backs the right of homosexuals to marry.

    CNN: Obama views on same-sex marriage reflect societal shifts

  • It is a measure of how freely gays and lesbians have moved into mainstream society, at least in California, that those who seek to remove their right to marry are complaining about persecution.

    ECONOMIST: Proposition 8

  • The story is a bit of fluff, its charming characters engaged in a mix-up so contrived it beggars even theatrical suspension of disbelief: The penniless Count and Countess Waldner hope to marry their daughter Arabella to a wealthy man, and since they can't afford to launch younger daughter Zdenka into society at the same time, they have her dress as a boy.

    WSJ

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