Yet, thanks to President Obama's auto task-force and a shotgun marriage with Fiat, Chrysler motors wearily on.

ECONOMIST: The car industry

The education secretary insisted the regionalisation was "not a shotgun marriage or a forced marriage" but was a response to the report from Professor Griggs.

BBC: Scottish Parliament

Mr Henry said the regionalisation was a move to take attention away from the cuts and was a "shotgun marriage rather than an agreement based on a consensus".

BBC: Scottish Parliament

Among them teenage pregnancies are rare and often followed by marriage, sometimes at the point of a metaphorical shotgun.

ECONOMIST: Hispanic families