Dispatches (C4), which has been even more magnificent than usual this run, gave us a deeply worrying conundrum about first-cousin marriages. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Psst, Rupert: It's another grounds on which to attack Darwin, who married his first-cousin, Emma. ❋ Unknown (2010)
He and Emma enjoyed a remarkably compatible marriage (maybe it was that first-cousin thing). ❋ Unknown (2008)
Other Huguenot-descended families did make first-cousin marriages (the du Toits and Moutons, for example), so it is not possible to make a blanket statement about the refugees having a different understanding or application of Calvin's precepts than the Dutch-speaking Reformed Church members. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Note 8: The prevalence of first-cousin marriage among elite Amsterdam burghers as well as among farmers and artisans in Neckarhausen raises questions about the class dimension of endogamous marriage. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The consequences of first-cousin marriage can be tragic: each year in Britain hundreds of babies are born with disabilities and a third die before they are five years old. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Even the inheritance advantage of a first-cousin marriage might not have been worth waiting for. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The “incest” was a first-cousin marriage, which is actually exactly what the Vermont Supreme Court cited in FAVOR of forcing Vermont to provide marital status to same-sex couples. ❋ Unknown (2009)
It's very interesting that FTA's re-release follows, by about a month, the theatrical debut of its contemporary first-cousin, Theater of War (2008) -- at Film Forum -- which documents the making of the Public Theater's 2006 production of Mother Courage and Her Children with a cast led by Meryl Streep. ❋ Unknown (2009)
With De Leon bowing out of the Speakership battle, this sets the stage for the openly gay, first-cousin of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to make history in Sacramento. ❋ Unknown (2009)
One argument made by the state was that doing so would create disparities among the states in marriage recognition, and the Court pointed out that Vermont recognized first-cousin marriages while states like Texas did not, yet everyone had managed with this state of affairs just fine for years. ❋ Unknown (2009)
It is a 'first-cousin' of Worldwide Marriage Encounter WWME, with which I have been involved since 1981. ❋ Catholic Mom Of 10 (2009)
It's pretty much a first-cousin of those annoying timeshare and financial planning phone solicitations you used to get just as dinner was being served. ❋ Dan (2007)
The movement is a 'first-cousin' of Worldwide Marriage Encounter WWME, with which I am active. ❋ Unknown (2009)
But, a scab's first-cousin is someone who crosses a picket line in defiance of the damage crossing a picket line does to the leverage workers have when they are on strike. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Bradfor MP Anne Cryer has been a voice in the wilderness trying to get first-cousin marriages made illegal in Britain. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Undershaft (a simply perfect performance by Simon Russell Beale, whose throaty consonants hint at his character's rough East End origins) meets and feels love for his now grown-up daughter, having been summoned to a family conference by his aristocratic wife, Lady Britomart, daughter of the Earl of Stevenage and theatrical first-cousin to Oscar Wilde's Lady Bracknell. ❋ Unknown (2008)
