How To Use Polygamous In A Sentence
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The debut in spring 2006 of HBO's television series, Big Love, which featured a fictional and in some ways likeable polygamous family in Utah, propelled polygamy to the front pages of American newspapers and put the idea of legalized polygamy "in play" in some surprising quarters.
Elizabeth Marquardt: Get Ready for Group Marriage
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It can no longer be polygamous; the wife's consent is now required; divorce, originally precluded, is now authorized; and nullity for lack of age is recognized.
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The code prohibited polygamous marriages and forced marriage for girls, established a minimum age for marriage, and required judicial divorce rather than repudiation.
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But leaders of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, many of whose followers lived at the ranch, accused the state agency of conducting an overzealous raid simply because the group believes in polygamous marriages.
Child welfare officials say child abuse, neglect common at Texas polygamists’ ranch
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These family compounds accommodate the large extended families and polygamous marriages that are common among the Maninka ethnic group.
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In polygamous households (more common among the wealthy, but not restricted to them), the first wife tends to be a close cousin and the second wife a younger, less-close relative.
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U.S. Attorney for Utah Brett Tolman has resisted that idea, saying that the federal government already is working with the states to investigate crimes in polygamous sects.
Feds to hear Reid’s bid for FLDS probe
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So far as my imperfect hearing can ascertain, he has been instructing the jury that they may utterly dismiss from their minds my highly ingenious plea of inability to offer any other kind of matrimony than a polygamous union -- surely, a very, very slipshod off-hand method of disposing of such a nice sharp quillet of the Law! ...
Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.
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A DWP spokesman claimed that the number of people in polygamous marriages entering Britain had fallen since the 1988 Immigration Act, which "generally prevents a man from bringing a second or subsequent wife with him to this country if another woman is already living as his wife in the UK".
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This happens routinely after marriage, and women from decimated kin groups are taken as wives in this polygamous society, without brideprice having to be paid.
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One in ten women live in polygamous marriages, although the practice of polygamy was banned under the Civil Code of 1926 modeled on the Swiss Civil Code of that time.
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In polygamous marriages, each wife has her own apartment in a large family house.
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In a number of polygamous tribal societies the preferred marriage pattern is for a man to marry two sisters, who are also his cross-cousins.
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Some preach abstinence yet turn a blind eye to polygamous marriages, adultery and genital mutilation.
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Suppose that in prehistoric times, men were polygamous.
Culture or Institutions?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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The Portuguese and Macanese had formal monogamous marriage, while the Chinese also engaged in polygamous unions until the 1940s (depending on the economic situation of the husband).
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In some polygamous species, such as the patas monkey, the males become henpecked.
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In polygamous ungulates the development of large body size, fighting abilities, and consequent high social status is important in male mating access.
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As Paul Rubin has noted, the definition of marriage in this manner may have even contributed to the rise of the western world versus polygamous societies.
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She argues that this has opened the door for legal reconition of marriage rights in polygamous marriages, possibly to the detriment of the children of those marriages.
Law is Cool Podcast: Polygamy and the Law : Law is Cool
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Like them, they are polygamous mouthbrooders with no pair bonds and a tendency to harass females.
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Because these are what botanists term polygamous flowers, _i. e._, some of them are perfect, containing both stamens and pistils; some are male only; others, again, are female.
Wild Flowers Worth Knowing
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In a polygamous family, each wife is responsible for feeding and caring for her own children, though the wives often help each other when needed.
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Inconsistent results from studies of polygamous birds suggest that mating system may not be the most influential factor on dispersal.
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Although I am no expert in the anthropology of wealth in polygamous and non-polygamous societies, I absolutely agree with Dr. Hartung's general points.
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Bill, for instance, tries his damndest to have a public "safety net" meeting with various polygamous leaders and local politicians.
Mark Blankenship: Big Love Wife Watch!: Season Five, Ep. 2
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However, the Central Bureau for Statistics (CBS), where all marriages are registered nationally, removes these bigamous or polygamous marriages from its files, on the assumption that administrative errors have occurred.
Netherlands recognizes polygamous marriages of Muslims. Sort of.
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A push for federal help prosecuting crimes within polygamous communities has the support of a majority of Utahns, a new poll shows.
Utahns say fed help OK against polygamy
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Less than 1 percent of the men in any Muslim country are polygamous.
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Temperature and climatal changes in general seem not to be without effect, as has been already mentioned in the case of _Arenaria tetraquetra_, which is polygamous when growing in mountain districts.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
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The study concludes with the founding of the mission, just before Gsell's famous intervention to ‘buy’ Tiwi females from their polygamous promised husbands.
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In polygamous marriages, wives cooperate in performing household duties, although each rears her own children.
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Polygamous marriages could be treated not as group marriages but as a series of simultaneously con-existing one-on-one marriages; that is, A marries B and B marries A.
Should we legally recognize polyamorous marriages?
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That’s partly why I used “if,” to avoid bringing in polygamous unions at that point.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Wishful Linguistics
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Reid said Wednesday he is taking aim at the “blatant and systematic crime that is rampant” in polygamous groups with legislation that would create a federal task force to combat crimes associated with polygamy.
Polygamy in cross hairs of Senate panel
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All deer are polygamous, with males competing for females, but the manner in which each species approaches courtship has much to do with the nature of its environment.
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The code prohibited polygamous marriages and forced marriage for girls, established a minimum age for marriage, and required judicial divorce rather than repudiation.
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Jon Summers, a spokesman for Mr. Reid, said the senator had long been concerned over “rampant” levels of crime in polygamous communities, including the abuse of women and children, financial crimes like welfare fraud and tax evasion, kidnapping and extortion.
Polygamous Sect to Defend 6 Members in Court and Its Practices on Capitol Hill
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Male California sea lions are polygamous, mating with many females.
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Similarly, in polygamous societies, the operation of sexual selection would have increased the differential advantage of the most viable in finding mates and having progeny.
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Monogamy was always the rule in Albania, but polygamous marriages existed up to the beginning of the twentieth century in some areas, particularly if the first wife was not able to bear a son.
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Texas Child Protective Services spokesman Patrick Crimmins confirmed 56 more children from the Utah-based polygamous sect were nonsuited in a San Angelo court on Thursday.
253 FLDS children now dropped from YFZ custody battle
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Few could afford polygamous marriages, although polygamy varies both between rural areas and urban centers, and between ethnic groups.
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The latter have their own polygamous tradition, one that today even extends to dating: thus it is not uncommon for a young Zulu man to have several girl-friends.
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He also believed that the basic nature of the male sex was polygamous, saying that a man needed a "hetaira" outside of his wife or partner - this other would allow him to feel he was reborn spiritually.
Still Point
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Polygamy provides perhaps the best opportunity among the three for obtaining the requisite data: there have been and continue to be polygamous societies.
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The average household contains six persons, but extended families and polygamous households may be much larger.
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Registrars in the major cities, in particular, record dozens of bigamous or polygamous marriages per year.
Netherlands recognizes polygamous marriages of Muslims. Sort of.
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Few could afford polygamous marriages, although polygamy varies both between rural areas and urban centers, and between ethnic groups.
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Many duck species are polygamous, with the drakes having no role in rearing the families.
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Women often are widowed and as there are more women than men of marriageable age, there is a relatively high number of polygamous households.
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Same - sex marriage, polygamous marriage and opposite - sex monogamous marriage are three different family structures.
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The series also features an evil polygamous prophet, augustly portrayed by Harry Dean Stanton, with the character name of Roland.
Polygamy: Loading The Barrels To Ignite the Right
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The laws of most western countries state that a polygamous union is illegal and will prosecute against those who are in plural marriages, yet the practice persists.
Kristen Houghton: Happiness Is ... Polygamy?
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Don’t apply the term Mormon in reference to any polygamous groups or other splinter organization.
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Judge: Cops must answer questions in polygamous sect leader’s case
Judge: Cops must answer questions in polygamous sect leader’s case
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In a few cases, the polygamous relationships have been continued secretly or on an informal basis.
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But, of course, I live in the context of thousands of years of human civilization and human culture dictates that I direct my energies toward building a stable household (monogamous, in this particular flavor of civilization, but polyandrous or polygamous in other flavors) from which to participate fully in the political economy and raise children that are well-integrated into my community.
Vegan Envy
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Howler monkeys are polygamous, living in groups of usually 4-11 individuals, including one or more males.
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This is in support of one of my most subtle pleadings of defence, to wit, that I have already offered to marry the plaintiff according to my country's laws, but that she did definitely decline such a marriage as polygamous (which it is indubitably liable to become at any moment), consequently, that my said contract is nilled by mutual consent.
Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.
