Sentences with phrase «from obscuring ones»

The strongest legal argument in favour of a ban on niqab's and burqa's would be on the basis of security (i.e. there is a legitimate state objective in preventing people from obscuring ones identity in public), but after the Gubaj Singh kirpan case I don't see that flying.

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The five miles from Astoria to Forest Hills have a dense progression of languages: Greek, Filipino, Urdu, Indonesian, Russian, Japanese, Lithuanian, and others, including more obscure ones like Chavacano, Waray - Waray, Minangkabau, and Bukharian.
Selecting one from Best Rewards Credit Cards can be a bit difficult and obscure for some.
Meet the Jones Act, an obscure 1920 regulation that requires that goods shipped from one American port to another be transported on a ship that is American - built, American - owned, and crewed by US citizens or permanent residents.
Sha'ul tells them in regard to their being SetApart from evil that they were to receive and expect this, because YAHWEH was working it in them, this work many believers pass right by as obscure, «Now YAHWEH our ABBA, and our Master YAHSHUA, may they direct our way to you and may our Master increase and overflow your love, one to another, to all people also, even as we love you.
On the face of it Santayana rejects all three of these departures from the tradition, since (1) he makes no very explicit move from a continuant to an event ontology, (2) regards the inherent nature of an object as a matter of the individual eternal essence which it actualizes and (3) regards the distinction between matter and form as at least a virtually inevitable way of expressing the obscure manner in which one state of things takes over from another (see RB 278 - 284).
Now when Jesus, the obscure ethnic man, rose from the dead and continued to teach his followers, he left them with one dictum: Matthew 28:19.
She was obscure when she was an atheist blogger; she has derived any prominence she might have from articles like this one.
From this perspective one might be willing to tolerate large investments of parish energy in events whose sanctity is obscure, because they are functions needed to escort more obviously Christian practices.
Hence (despite certain positive indications of re-birth which are, however, still largely obscured) the impression one gains from everything taking place around us is of an irresistible growth of atheism — or more exactly, amounting and irresistible de-Christianization.
The first, can appear the model of pure a priori thought, disengaged from the world of experience; the second, a massive collection of detailed descriptions and theories about the enormous variety of material phenomena, but with no intelligible unity; and the third an obscure and generally unrigorous rhapsody of affirmations and aspirations, at one end couched in the languages of politics and sentimentality, and at the other in the terms of a cosmic poetry unregulated by science or philosophy.
Third, and most basic, religion is so consistently irrelevant to politics because the problem of the translation of ideas from one modality to another is often obscured.
The second part will seem more obscure until one realizes that for Confucius «ritual» is not a narrow category but one that encompasses everything from what we would call liturgy to the common courtesies of everyday life.
Largely a defensively minded midfielder not averse to working hard, Hadzic is neat enough in possession to get by as a midfield in one of Europe's major leagues and certainly seems ready to make the jump from the relatively obscure Austrian Premier League.
The title of the book — one of the first to come from Blizzard Books, the publishing arm of the quarterly magazine devoted to the arcane, the obscure and the otherwise - unpublishable - in - this - modern - age — describes Erbstein as «football's forgotten pioneer,» and the contents don't disappoint.
William Karlsson, a 25 - year - old from Sweden who until this year was mostly known as one of the NHL's obscure other Karlssons, morphed into a 43 - goal scorer and a possession monster.
He's not got undue loyalty to any one club, having come an awful long way from an obscure little mining town in Chile.
Dele Alli joined Tottenham Hotspur from Milton Keynes Dons as a relatively obscure name and in just a matter of 18 months, the young midfielder has gone on to establish himself as one of the hottest properties in world football at the moment.
Demba Ba signed for # 8m from Chelsea this summer, so Beşiktaş certainly have moderate financial firepower, and a certain attraction, having drawn one of the Premier League's more talented striker to a relatively obscure country in Turkey.
Leah is also the name of a more obscure character from the Bible, and although not a very popular one in biblical stories, the name has sure risen in popularity today in the form of a baby girl name.
Other examples from observers and social media included ballot boxes being stuffed with extra ballots in multiple regions; an election official assaulting an observer; CCTV cameras obscured by flags or nets from watching ballot boxes; discrepancies in ballot numbers; last - minute voter registration changes likely designed to boost turnout; and a huge pro-Putin sign in one polling station.
Lanza's proposal might help the public identify some of the obscure entities that make political contributions, though it appears that the requirements could be circumvented if a company making donations is legally distinct from the one receiving a contract.
One of the pragmatic reasons the union officials who play such a big role in the WFP's operation wanted to give him its nomination rather than backing an obscure law professor whose lack of name recognition at the time was equaled only by her paucity of funding was that they felt more confident he could produce the 50,000 votes on the WFP line necessary to preserve its spot on the state ballot four years from now.
But the Procurement Policy Board, an obscure agency if ever there was one, has decreed that the competitive bidding rules «shall not apply to contract awards made from line item appropriations and / or discretionary funds to community - based not - for - profit organizations or other public service organizations identified by elected city officials other than the mayor and the controller.»
Rare Chinese tree may help fight leukemia — Leukemia victims may one day be helped by a substance drawn from an obscure Chinese tree.
It may be that Voorwerp gets its energy from a jet or from a still - active quasar at the heart of IC 2497, one that is largely obscured from view by gas and dust.
There's no gold medal in sight, but at least one species of fly manages to avoid obscured vision during flight by borrowing a page from Olympic ice skaters.
«It may sound obscure and distant from what you're doing,» Enriquez says, but the work of these scientists will ultimately affect every one of us.
Epigenomic profiling of complex tissues obscures regulatory elements that distinguish one cell type from another, researchers report.
The «trivial way» of obscuring memory - access patterns, Devadas explains, would be to request data from every address in the memory — whether a memory chip or a hard drive — and throw out everything except the data stored at the one address of interest.
In fact, typing a couple of phrases from Mr. Holder's comment into scroogle.org turned up about a dozen identical posts in late 2009 to early 2010 in response to articles about the UEA e-mail theft, at mostly obscure and varied websites (i.e., ones where the audience isn't likely to have much knowledge of climate science) rather than the most prominent climate websites.
While the origins of BSE remain obscure, one possibility is that the cattle developed the disease by being fed meat and bone meal contaminated with prions from the sheep with the disease, scrapie.
It may also reveal clues about the formation and evolution of spiral galaxies, given that the Fermi telescope views Andromeda from an outside vantage point — one that impossible to attain in the Milky Way, whose center remains partially obscured.
The hair is brought forward over the face, obscuring one eye with a swathe of silky smooth hair in a gorgeous array of warm colours, from mid brown tones to warm honey blondes.
Without much material or throughline, the movie devolves into a succession of scenes in which the scream queen Vivian runs from one imperilment to the next; the proceedings culminate in abandoned mine tunnel that serves primarily as a means for obscuring the action.
One of the points made in I, Tonya is that details of her saga — Harding was banned for life from competitive skating for her role in an attack on fellow figure skater Nancy Kerrigan — were obscured by the O.J. Simpson scandal that followed hard on its heels.
In fact, Hudlin's film only presents a single obscure criminal case footnote from Marshall's early NAACP days, one 14 years before Brown vs. Board Education and 27 years before joining the Supreme Court.
Someone holding a gun to their head is tackled; from behind a gravestone obscuring our view, we hear scuffling and two gunshots, but in the end no one is injured.
But it's not an obscure text at all, of course — it's an obvious one thick with hillbillies from Missouri (Maggie's greasy family), thugs from East L.A., and crazy idiots from, probably, Indiana.
A pair of gray suede gloves abandoned on a department store counter; a small 35 mm still camera obscuring a woman's face except for her eyes; an electric train set; a finger on the disconnect button of a telephone; an ungloved, well - manicured hand resting briefly on another woman's shoulder: Todd Haynes's Carol is not a Hitchcockian thriller, although it is adapted from the second novel by Patricia Highsmith, whose first, Strangers on a Train, was the basis for one of the master of suspense's great movies.
The frame is often divided by stairs and banisters, fireplaces and vases, with one figure obscured and seemingly entrapped, yet the other is far from free despite their conviction that they are.
The movie has one particularly interesting if obscure source that can probably be attributed to one of the Frenchmen who worked on the script: the fifth feature of Alain Resnais, Je t «aime, je t «aime (1968), an SF curiosity scripted by surrealist Jacques Sternberg that may be the most underrated and neglected of Resnais» features (though one can order a blotchy video dupe with subtitles from Video Search of Miami).
The problem with this little one hour feature isn't the singing or its brief attempt at story; those are all wonderful to listen to thanks to some pleasant voices, and wise selection of tracks that range from classics everyone in the whole world is familiar with (Let it Snow), to more obscure carols like Santa Claus Wants Some Lovin, (complete with creepy yet hilarious facial expressions from George Clooney).
The editing is overly choppy and obscures what's going on, and one odd transition from an eye dissolves into a turkey on a plate.
The only exception to the «no special features» formula is Manos, a justifiably obscure film that now holds a place alongside Plan 9 from Outer Space as one of the worst movies ever made (it currently sits at # 3 on IMDB's Bottom 100 list).
One of the things that drew me to MRFH as a reader was reading reviews about my favorite obscure and / or beloved oddball flicks from people who understood just enjoying movies.
The track's historical tidbits range from the rudimentary to the obscure and unfortunately long gaps are in between each one.
Under an obscure 2007 Illinois law, passed under former Governor Rod Blagojevich (yes, the one who was convicted and removed from office), union officials could participate in the Illinois Teachers» Retirement System by teaching for a single day.
At one voucher school, where 93 % of the students had vouchers, teachers taught from a «learning model known as «Suggestopedia,» an obscure Bulgarian philosophy of learning that stresses learning through music, stretching and meditation.»
Brooks Brierley tells the sad story of America's most expensive vintage thoroughbred / Driving a boat - tailed AC — The Editor gets to grips with a rare Anzani - engined survivor from the early days of the Thames Ditton marque / Magic Morris Minor — Alec Issigonis's postwar masterpiece is as collectable today as ever — Michael Worthington - Williams inaugurates our new series of expanded and very comprehensive Buyer's Guide / Wizardry in the land of Oz — There may not be many bushes in the Bush but you can trust Nick Baldwin to find a rusting relic / Prescott in 1950 — It's spot - the - celebrity time as Brian Heath pores over a newly discovered hoard of old hillclimb photos / Brighton revisited — Tom Threlfall describes the other Brighton Run while Peter Corrana gives us his driving impressions of one of the most covetable contestants in the main event / Immortal Austin 7 — Bill Boddy (who has owned nine of them) tells what it is about Herbert Austin's little wonder that keeps it at the top of the old - car parade / A summer affair For Vitoria Ainsworth — marriage meant an adventurous initiation into the joys of owning a Roesch Talbot / The real McCurd — Michael Worthington - Williams researches yet another obscure but fascinating UK motor manufacturer of the 1920s / Styled by the Wind — Touring 4 - seater lightweight bodywork on the Alfa Romeo 6C 2300B Mille Miglia was one of the first attempts at introducing aero technology to automotive coachbuilding.
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