11.   What many people see as the marriage contract is the melding of the strengths of two people in the collaborative enterprise known as family.

12.   He likened the Caspian Pipeline Consortium agreement to a marriage contract.

13.   Instead of thanking God for this blessing, he used some of it in satisfying his sexual instincts and prohibited lust, by using forged marriage contracts as means.

14.   Marriage contracts are often struck between poor families and wealthy Arabs from the oil-rich Persian Gulf who flock to Egypt on holiday.

15.   Under the custom, temporary or permanent marriage contracts can be agreed on by two people and do not have to be registered.

16.   Gunmen in a speeding car shot dead a municipal official in charge of marriage contracts in southern Egypt on Tuesday, police sources said.

17.   He said the couple was wed under a marriage contract under which husband and wife retained separate control of their properties.

18.   However, his daughter and Uday drew up a marriage contract last year, although she reportedly refuses to return from Geneva to live with him.

19.   Al-Dhalain insisted he was married to a Filipina and had two children but Domingo said an investigation found that the marriage contract was fake.

20.   Moslems in a hurry to get hitched from afar may conclude their marriage contract by videophone, a senior Egyptian cleric said on Monday.