The Bangladesh cabinet has proposed measures lowering the marriageable age for young men and women, but significantly toughing the penalty for violating the limits.
She wouldn't overlook a man of marriageable age, from ginger-whiskered old Frank Kennedy, who was Suellen's beau, on down to shy, quiet, blushing Charles Hamilton, Melanie's brother.
She laments the long-term decline in the availability of good jobs for men without college education, which is thought to reduce the pool of " marriageable men" and—consequently—present fathers.
As they took their seats, he returned to an earlier topic of conversation: " My daughter is just of marriageable age, " but Scion Zihu repeatedly refused the alliance.
The first was the scarcity of girls of marriageable age. The second, and more serious one, was that Gerald was a " new man, " despite his nearly ten years' residence, and a foreigner.
So when Rembrandt was hired to paint his hugely rich and marriageable daughter, Maria Trip, he knew that the display of wealth had to be crushingly subtle. The money, then, was in the detail.
What could he and she really know of each other, since it was his duty, as a " decent" fellow, to conceal his past from her, and hers, as a marriageable girl, to have no past to conceal?
Lynn took advantage of this absence to introduce his sister to every marriageable man he could find this side of the Rockies, but none could make her forget the stern farm boy who ruled over his own mountain.