• And, most patriarchal though it may sound, almost misogynistic, one way for the poorer to make the leap from poor to rich is by marrying up.

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  • In the world of the internet, operators are looking at ways of marrying up the algorithms that find the shortest path through a network and those that control the speed with which information flows.

    ECONOMIST: Algorithms

  • At the town hall volunteers gathered names and car registrations to ease the task of marrying-up owners with vehicles in daylight.

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  • "We've got a perfectly open system in terms of people who want to come forward and suggest themselves to be academy sponsors, and then it's a question of us then marrying those up with projects that will work for the communities and the sponsors, " he adds.

    BBC: Today

  • A. in marketing from Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad--five years apart--and ended up marrying their college sweethearts.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Sanchez can be as ruthless and funny as her co-author, whom, incidentally, she ended up marrying after she'd completed this project.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Coontz quotes the president of Radcliffe suggesting that if a Radcliffe graduate was really lucky she might end up marrying a Harvard man.

    NEWYORKER: Books as Bombs

  • The line between fantasy and reality blurs when players arrange to meet in the physical world and end up marrying each other--in a real church.

    FORBES: Choice Bits

  • Sex and the City was a glittery, overblown fantasy where a writer could own a closet full of Manolos and wind up marrying a millionaire.

    FORBES: 'Girls,' Careers, and 'The Carrie Diaries'

  • "I had some concerns and fears, " said Kaufman, 44, who ended up marrying one year after she had a second child by the same anonymous donor.

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  • She quit her job and ended up marrying Ziff.

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  • Kenneth Walker, a 91-year-old retired dairy farmer and a justice for about 50 years, has simply put up his marrying fees.

    ECONOMIST: Homosexual unions

  • In an unnamed English town, two young Pakistani immigrants, Jugnu and Chanda, set up home without marrying.

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  • But Felix Sr vowed to make a new life for himself in Wales, marrying schoolteacher Kathleen Beynon and setting up as a shopkeeper in Trecynon.

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  • He lectured about the need to unite against the threat of a rich Muslim minority bent on marrying and converting Buddhist women, buying up land with foreign funding and flooding the population with Muslim babies.

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  • Perez plays a womanizing yet gallant action hero of the 18th Century, who mocks war but ends up joining the army to avoid marrying yet another of his conquests.

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  • Mrs Evans was known as Dorothy Parkes, and brought up in Bala and Corwen, before marrying George Evans from Pembrokeshire in 1931.

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  • Coming up, the rich get richer by marrying each other.

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  • Some suggested that Willem-Alexander should give up his right to the throne, if he insisted on marrying Maxima.

    BBC: Holland takes princess to its heart

  • My Big Fat Greek Wedding started life as Vardalos' one-woman stand-up performance, based on her own life as a Greek marrying a non-Greek.

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  • The UAE's Marriage Fund was set up six years ago to try to reverse the practise of Emirati men marrying foreign brides because they could not afford the exorbitant dowries expected of them.

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  • The marrying couple had sent photographs, and Bridey dropped her feet to the floor and propped up the photos against two water bottles on the table.

    NEWYORKER: The Proxy Marriage

  • Masako is often held up as a model for Japanese women, who are increasingly pursuing professional careers, marrying late, if at all, and postponing childbirth.

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  • In the meantime, Romney did some executive huffing and puffing, summoning up a dusty 1914 miscegenation statute that barred out-of-state couples from marrying in Massachusetts if their union was prohibited at home.

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