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He describes how a stranger, a man in his mid forties, approached him in the market asking if he knew of any marriageable girls.

Article 23, paragraph 2, of the Covenant reaffirms the right of men and women of marriageable age to marry and to found a family.

It was never discussed, but always assumed, that he would do this when he reached marriageable age, he said.

So the king issued a proclamation for all marriageable girls to come to the garden, under pain of death, to try to pick the pomegranates.

Now some of these men have reached marriageable age, resulting in intense competition for spouses, especially in rural areas.

Research by economists Kerwin Charles and Ming Luoh finds a similar effect when many otherwise-marriageable men end up in prison.

According to the state-run China Daily, poets are the least marriageable, followed by secretaries, lawyers and performance artists.

okoko hopes attract interest when he returns with two beautiful , marriageable daughters.

Ready for marriage; of a marriageable age or condition. Used of young women.

She is one of several marriage consultants who help match ambitious young men and the marriageable daughters of business families.

Women are all blind once meeting the single man and think single men are all looking for proper marriageable party.

From the practice of law, the marriageable age lawmaking of the Tang Dynasty was well put into use.

Three quarters of all divorces today are initiated by women, and one third of all women of marriageable age are single.

How will those age-marriageable Post-80s deal with the tough issue of purchasing house?

There was once a king who had three sons of marriageable age.

However, your daughter is only 15; for Edlund, "prime marriageable age" is 25-44.

They're past their marriageable age, can't find a partner and have sexual needs, so they turn to pleasuring themselves.

The village has over 30 men of marriageable age, but no single women.

Know my husband when we are of marriageable age.

Isn't there a shortage of marriageable women in China? ? ?

By 2050, there will be 60m more men of marriageable age than women in China and India.

Marriageable belle makes public shop of some dress of stone Qi area 4 times to ask for a husband to the society.

One out of 6 marriageable Hong Kong girls (25-49) will not be able to find a suitor.

'Our Daughters Must Be Wives': Marriageable Young Women in the Novels of Dickens, Eliot, and Hardy

Contemplation on the operating law of statutory marriageable age in our state

Listing 3 shows the code to create two marriageable Persons; it is pretty much as you might expect

On the Lawmaking of the Marriageable Age in the Tang Dynasty

the lack of girls of marriageable age