offer marriage
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Hodges in 2015, in which the court’s four liberals joined him in finding that it violated the Constitution for states to offer marriage licenses only to heterosexual couples.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 27, 2018
Almost from the moment Massachusetts became the first state to offer marriage licenses to same-sex couples in 2004, mainstream businesses have tried to find a way to attract customers from this new, lucrative market.
From New York Times ● Jul. 16, 2010
Sowle largely based a quick preliminary opinion on that language: the county not only could offer marriage licenses to gays.
From Time Magazine Archive
You are accused, young man, of being engaged to another woman while you offer marriage to my child.
From Lover's Vows by Mrs. Inchbald
"And yet you can advise me to offer marriage to a woman,—a woman whom I am to seek merely because she is rich?"
From Phineas Finn The Irish Member by Anthony Trollope
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