11.   Just as there are special responsibilities that go with creating a child, or taking a marriage vow, or owning a car or a gun.

12.   Late spring and early summer are popular times for the exchange of marriage vows for many couples in this country.

13.   Meanwhile, Carmela struggled with her marriage vows and Pussy struggled with his family vows.

14.   Most of the couples at the group wedding were clergy members of other faiths reaffirming their marriage vows.

15.   Men are more likely to break marriage vows or abandon their children.

16.   Most of us know by now that not every American president has taken his marriage vows as seriously as his oath of office.

17.   Moments before her wedding, Mrs. Dole was still studying her marriage vows, according to a biography for middle-school readers by Carolyn Mulford.

18.   Officers who rise through such an environment might naturally acquire a cavalier view of the marriage vow.

19.   People seem to be flouting everything from warnings about deadly sexually transmitted diseases to marriage vows.

20.   Perhaps all Americans should stand in a courtroom and do likewise from time to time, like a long-wedded couple renewing marriage vows.