How To Use Dowry In A Sentence
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The dowry contract was read aloud and signed by witnesses.
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A six-member troupe of students presented a mime based on unemployment problems of the youth as well as on issues such as dowry and corruption in various Government departments.
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It all began with curbs on open grazing and felling of trees, control on population growth and ban on dowry and alcoholism.
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In 1986, the government of India passed a bill which increased the punishment for accepting dowry and decreed that in cases where a woman died an unnatural death, her property would devolve on her children or be returned to her parents.
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When a man has betrothed one of five women, and does not remember which of the five it is, while each of them claims the right of betrothment, then he is duty bound to give to each a bill of divorcement, and to distribute the dowry due to one among them all.
Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala
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Her crisp and succinct discussion of dowry is sure to remain the classic analysis of this subject.
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In the past, marriages were arranged and women brought a dowry to the marriage.
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It places immense pressure on the husband and his family, who have to raise large sums of money, and on the bride, who often is forced to marry the suitor who can provide the biggest dowry.
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According to her husband's testament, the lady was returned her dowry and was given the usufruct of her husband's landed property.
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The amount of the dowry is determined through negotiations between the families of the engaged.
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And it was in this reliable old phaeton that I took her back to my home, strapping her and her sizeable dowry to the buckboard.
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He said that the dowry system - while technically illegal - is a way of life.
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The cattle would have been used for a dowry so it is in ways like that she asserts herself as an independent woman.
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In the seventeenth century, the enforced celibacy of daughters and cadets already caused by the dowry inflation was further exacerbated by primogeniture and the triumph of the patrilineal family.
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However, Kalaimani, unshaven and unkempt, mourning the loss of his boats had to be convinced to forget the dowry amount and encouraged to go ahead with the wedding.
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In men's wills, usufruct on the husband's property is left to widows under condition that they give up their right to dowry and extradotal goods in favour of offspring.
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The concept of dowry is so deeply rooted that even young women and men who seek to rebel against society by opposing dowry cannot do it wholeheartedly because there are issues of family honour (maanam, izzat, maan etc.) at stake.
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On payment of a dowry, the man enjoys full marital rights, with no ongoing responsibility for any resultant children once the stated term expires.
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Then he turned to the King and said in his ear, “O King of the age, thy friend Judar seeketh alliance with thee and will have me ask of thee for him the hand of thy daughter, the Princess Asiyah; so disappoint me not. but accept my intercession, and what dowry soever thou askest he will give thee.”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Alas, I have no dowry to give you, save the blessing of your dear old -- your dear fond, _fond_ father, _ (kisses her forehead) _ But only obey me in this, and Lady Fortune will smile on us all -- smile -- _smile_.
Oh! Susannah! A Farcical Comedy in Three Acts
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His family hoped that his bride would bring a large dowry.
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Apart from movables, they got at most a parental dowry.
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My dowry's considerable - more than sufficient to resuscitate the Ashford family fortunes, at least by enough to get by.
ON A WICKED DAWN
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That day the immense dowry was declared; and on Sunday there was a grand ball, that is, a ball opened by a 'branle' which settled the order of the dancing throughout the evening.
Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
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Sanjiv and his parents had demanded Rs 50,000, household articles and clothes as dowry.
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She wanted adequate safeguards against dowry, bigamy, adultery, and apostasy in the new legislation.
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As a dowry to this marriage of heaven and hell, Lilith brings a magic mirror, a crown and a pearl.
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Now there was no dowry under the bed her prospects of another arranged marriage were at an end.
YELLOW BIRD
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He claimed that all the others in his group were burned at the stake, but that he was saved and married by a sachem's widowed daughter, whose dowry included European scalps.
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Have we not been burning our women within the confines of our homes, young women who have not brought enough dowry?
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Although ours has been so pure and poor That you can take them no great dowry.
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If he had a son, he would try to make good his loss by claiming a hefty dowry in his marriage.
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This new wave of hope swept aside the fact that she was the "greenhorn" janitress, that she was twenty-two and dowryless, and, according to the traditions of her people, condemned to be shelved aside as an unmated thing – a creature of pity and ridicule.
Hungry Hearts
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She brings out a suitcase full of intricately embroidered cloths that she is preparing for her daughter's dowry.
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The woman could not be less interested but the blackboard she gets for her dowry comes in handy as a rather ineffectual shelter against chemical weapons.
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In 'The Bride Who Suffered Ill-Fortune', a well-dowered daughter who had married into a wealthy family in a distant land, gathered her few remaining belongings and returned home in shame after her in-laws spent her dowry following their bankruptcy.
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity
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Larger women often are favored as brides because they appear to come from a well-to-do family that can provide a significant dowry and seem strong enough to carry heavy loads.
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We have also given persons entitled to sue for such recovery a tacit hypothec over the husband's property, but this right is not to give any priority over other hypothecary creditors except where it is the wife herself who sues to recover her dowry; it being in her interest only that we have made this new provision.
The Institutes of Justinian
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But since the economy got into trouble, women take their dowry to save themselves.
Times, Sunday Times
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The village girls spit out the chaff as they winnow with wooden forks and sing about their dowry jewels.
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They want to make a small fortune or just experience new things before their parents marry them off for a dowry somewhere in the remote countryside.
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The dowry may include livestock, money, or other socially valued items.
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While you can boast of your three overwhelming millions, we can only produce our poor one million, — a mere nothing in your eyes, though three times the dowry of an archduchess of Austria.
A Marriage Contract
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Families who want to marry off their daughters without paying a dowry often hire criminals to abduct eligible boys and force them into wedlock, the paper said.
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Along with Bombay, also part of the unhappy Catherine's dowry, it marked the furthest limit of what Charles had conceived to be his imperium, the latest, and soon to be greatest, mercantile power in the world.
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17. Anthropology, Psychology, and Sociology
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Thus, non-acceptance of these norms by a daughter-in-law would be seen as an act of ‘defiance’ by a society which has for decades now put up with bride-burning on account of insufficient dowry.
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In mid-fifteenth-century Florence, the husband typically spent about a third to two-thirds of the dowry on clothes for the new wife and furnishings - often well above the cost of the trousseau.
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The girl had been harassed for dowry by her in-laws since her marriage two years ago, but this year they had become particularly cruel towards her.
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The transformation of marriage in twentieth century Kerala which included the institutionalisation of conjugal marriage, patriliny, and dowry, the specific implications of Kerala's demographic transition for community politics, and the inflow of remittances from the Gulf after the 1970s have endured that community boundaries, and the institution of arranged marriage which sustains them remain hale and hearty.
Countercurrents.org
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Since she's naught but an orphan, lacking dowry and family, then you should be content with a handfast.
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I am not suitor to the Lady Isabel; Clarence is overlavish, and Isabel has a fair face and a queenly dowry.
The Last of the Barons — Complete
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[69] Apuleius _Apologia_, 523: Pleraque tamen rei familiaris in nomen uxoris callidissima fraude confert, etc.; id., 545, 546 proves further the power of the wife: ea condicione factam conjunctionem, si nullis a me susceptis liberis vita demigrasset, ut dos omnis, etc. -- evidently the woman was dictating the disposal of her dowry.
A Short History of Women's Rights From the Days of Augustus to the Present Time. with Special Reference to England and the United States. Second Edition Revised, With Additions.
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While father had been forced to leave the hereditary title to his only son, he had made sure that I, his pet, would have a gorgeous dowry, and if I never married, access to anything I ever wanted.
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My dowry's considerable - more than sufficient to resuscitate the Ashford family fortunes, at least by enough to get by.
ON A WICKED DAWN
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The Elector was broke and couldn't afford to pay the agreed dowry, but he wanted the money such a marriage would be sure to bring his way.
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He had no doubt that his father must have allotted a large amount of money to her for her dowry.
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She had no money for the dowry that convents demanded, but she offered herself as a lay sister - that is, one of the nuns who performs all the heavy work of the house.
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The groom's folks were bound by custom to be even more critical of her appearance and her dowry than were the neighborhood women.
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A city court today sentenced an executive of a private company and his parents to life imprisonment for causing the death of his wife after subjecting her to extreme cruelty due to dowry demands.
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They saw the pillars of society pulled dowry by an unseen Samson and watched the victims crawling painfully from the ruins.
Inflation and War Finance
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It shall be no offence for you to divorce your wives before the marriage is consummated or the dowry is settled.
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The women are punished for refusing arranged marriages, or if their family fails to produce a promised dowry, or who in some way bring dishonour on their family.
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My dowry's considerable - more than sufficient to resuscitate the Ashford family fortunes, at least by enough to get by.
ON A WICKED DAWN
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The obligation of the father to provide a minimum dowry (fifty zuz) compensated her for the loss of inheritance (Mishnah Ketubbot 6: 5).
Legal-Religious Status of the Married Woman.
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There are several reasons for the prevalence of the dowry system, but the main one is that it is a necessary precondition for marriage.
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Olivia informs him that he cannot touch her dowry, that the money is for Joey and any other children they might have.
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She claimed he had paid lobola, a dowry.
Times, Sunday Times
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The remaining farming class in Ireland was more inclined to practice impartible inheritance and primogeniture: one son inherited, and represented an eligible partner for one daughter of another farming family, who was, in turn, expected to bring with her a sizeable dowry.
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We dirty our streets, we break traffic rules, we torment women, we seek dowry, and we discard our old; we wait for our share of impending trouble.
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Now processors say they are being offered plastic waste with a dowry of ￡50-100 a tonne attached.
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Having been God-beseemingly affianced unto the Lord, ye passion-enduring maidens-have brought Him as dowry your blood and immolation, and have worthily obtained the divine palace wherein ye are unceasingly filled with ineffable enlightenment; wherefore, in spiritually celebrating your holy and honourable memory, we glorify the Saviour and in faith call out: Supplicate
The General Menaion or the Book of Services Common to the Festivals of our Lord Jesus of the Holy Virgin and of Different Orders of Saints
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And it was in this reliable old phaeton that I took her back to my home, strapping her and her sizeable dowry to the buckboard.
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Married at an early age, the Florentine woman from the propertied classes did not own either her dowry or the rich clothes and jewels which bedecked her during the wedding ceremony.
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The thread that runs through all of them is not just the crazed demand for a dowry by the victim's husband and his family, but the lack of support she got from her own parents as she suffered torture in silence.
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Personal enmity, property disputes, love intrigues, dowry and gain are the major reasons for murdering women.
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When girls were going to get married their fathers had to give their future husband a dowry.
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It was resolved to launch a national campaign for the abolition of both the caste system and dowry because together they tended to reinforce the system of caste endogamy.
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Other Zulu words are already entrenched: "lobola" (dowry),
ANC Daily News Briefing
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The cargoes are my wedding gifts and dowry, so to speak, only because she fears us.
The Towers of the Sunset
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The bride was given a dowry of three thousand livres in ready money, a third of it reserved for the couple's communal use.
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The Imams in our mosques give sermons on so many issues, but never touch upon this topic of dowry.
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The bride brings a dowry to the marriage usually consisting of household goods and her own clothing.