adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
domestic/wedded/marital bliss
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six months of wedded bliss
marital difficulties (= in a marriage )
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You may need help in dealing with your marital difficulties.
marital fidelity (= in marriage )
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the importance of marital fidelity
marital happiness (= happiness that comes from being married )
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Does being similar to your wife or husband lead to marital happiness?
marital status
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Marital status: married/single/divorced
marriage/marital breakdown
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problems caused by the increase in marital breakdown
the marital home (= where a husband and wife live )
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He left the marital home to move in with his lover.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
bed
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Not being able to fall asleep and not allowing oneself to move in the marital bed .
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The two of them seemed so entirely unsuited to each other that I quickly discarded the unbidden image of their marital bed .
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Here he is sitting up in the marital bed , his jaw ruggedly clenched on his unlit pipe.
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Knowing what I know now, I imagined she was stretched out on the marital bed finishing the job.
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The following morning, I prowled the furniture show and lay on eighteen different beds intended for the marital bed chamber.
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Her father moved into the marital bed , she and her husband moved downstairs.
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And she thought: What must it be like to go to one's marital bed with delight, instead of disgust?
bliss
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Tensions soon simmered beneath the impression of domestic harmony and marital bliss .
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I am not suggesting that shared parenting ensures marital bliss .
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Certainly they now boasted insistently of the marital bliss of their daughter and the solid Civil Service progress of their son.
breakdown
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There is little doubt, then, that the effect of marital breakdown upon the children of the couple concerned is multi-causal.
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Witness the rates of marital breakdown in the Western world!
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Two factors are mainly responsible for movement from the owner-occupied to local authority sectors - unemployment and marital breakdown .
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The second main factor is marital breakdown .
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No, they suffer from an altogether different, better class of marital breakdown .
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However, it is on marital breakdown that the crucial implications of this situation are particularly illuminated.
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The tenure of a person's housing has been shown to be a consequence of marital breakdown in many cases.
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However, it is also associated with excess risk as a cause of marital breakdown .
difficulty
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Divorce is no longer so shameful and is popularly seen as a permissible solution to marital difficulties .
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In particular they had considerably more marital difficulties , and were much more likely to be currently suffering from psychiatric disorder.
discord
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What was the relationship between new roofs and marital discord ?
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His parents evidently did not suffer from drunkenness, gluttony, or excesses of marital discord .
fidelity
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He has been similarly evasive in answering questions about his marital fidelity and marijuana use.
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Contemporary interest in quail focuses more on their taste than on their promise of marital fidelity .
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Joined trees were objects of good omen; symbols of conjugal happiness and marital fidelity .
home
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He earlier stripped the couple's marital home in Grimsby, Humberside and sold the furniture.
infidelity
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A frequent cause is marital infidelity .
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There is an issue of marital infidelity .
problem
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These can be forms of avoidance that make it impossible for the couple to look at their marital problems .
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Writing to the client would be out of the question too, because of her marital problems , even if her address were available.
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Also patron of brides and war; she is invoked against jealousy and marital problems .
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They had less secure and frequently changing employment, more marital problems , and less adequate accommodation.
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Ultimately there had to be added to the list her marital problems .
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Also invoked against marital problems and physical abuse.
rape
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While it could be very difficult to prove that you were raped before your marriage, proving marital rape may be possible.
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Two centuries after Hale's pronouncement, Pollock B. unequivocally expressed his support for the marital rape exemption in similar terms.
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It is unlikely that their enthusiasm for reporting marital rape would be much greater.
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Indeed, Wills J. appeared to query the very existence of a marital rape exemption.
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The Committee was not without its own misgivings about non-cohabitation as a prerequisite for prosecution for marital rape .
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In the thirteenth century context, liability for marital rape would clearly have been quite inconceivable.
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Separation is not always the factor which is chosen to delimit the marital rape exemption.
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Wives prepared to report marital rape to the police may well have husbands who fall into this category.
relationship
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A specific focus on the marital relationship apart from management of the child may be indicated.
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The marital relationship is equally problematic.
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They are powerful ways to strengthen your marital relationship , keeping it rich, rewarding, and fun.
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And what of the marital relationship , how much meaning and importance does this still have for the partners?
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She'd volunteered the information about Amy's marital relationships .
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In particular, they will often have an unsatisfactory marital relationship , a factor central to a woman's vulnerability to depression.
status
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Among the very elderly, 75 and over, the difference between the marital status of the sexes increases.
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California law prohibits housing discrimination based on marital status .
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In Western society an individual's marital status and occupational status are achieved.
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Even marital status was taken into consideration.
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Future trends in marital status Future trends in marital status are subject to some uncertainty.
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In 1981 there were marked differences in the marital status of men and women in the older age groups.
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But some policy issues may require identification of the effects of other variables such as age, qualifications and marital status .
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There are differences for women depending on marital status and the greater share of responsibility many women take for the care of children.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Age, sex and marital status all affect earnings and income.
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It wasn't what you would call marital bliss, but it was a good, solid marriage.
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Many wives do not report acts of marital violence to the police.
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The police have the power to stop people holding their marital disputes in public.
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The stress of the job causes marital problems for many police officers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And our soulless moments of marital disconnection have robbed her of the outright gaiety that once counterpointed these darker spells.
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As children leave home marital satisfaction tends to pick up again.
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For an immigrant boy this marital alliance was no mean achievement.
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Some married couples seem to endure, maybe even enjoy, marital brawls.
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These can be forms of avoidance that make it impossible for the couple to look at their marital problems.
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This was not a marital settlement agreement....
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True, unemployment has reached a record one-in-ten high, marital splits are up to one-in-three and the pound has been devalued.