Sentences with phrase «on face veils»

The Ofsted chief said he was concerned that some heads were «coming under pressure» to relax a ban on face veils, either for staff or pupils.

Students are celebrating today after a controversial ban on face veils at Birmingham Metropolitan College was reversed.

After his Daily Mail and Telegraph interviews earlier this week urging the party not to lurch left and calling for a potential ban on face veils, there will be some Lib Dem members who wish he would.

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There is a radiance on the face of the joyous that pulls out the beauty of the divine image, which lays buried underneath the veils of the passions.

London, England (CNN)- The ban imposed by French President Sarkozy on wearing a face - covering veil, or niqab, is simply dangerous gesture politics, representing little more than pandering to the far right in France.

And the Lord will destroy on this mountain the covering that is cast over all peoples, the veil that is spread over all nations... the Lord God will wipe way tears from all faces, and the reproach of God's people the Lord will take away from all the earth.»

Veronica has just wiped His face and moves away, a beautiful unmarked face imprinted on her veil.

According to a Pew Global Attitudes Project survey released yesterday, support for a ban on veils that cover the whole face except the eyes is widespread across Europe, with strong majorities in Spain (59 percent), Britain (62 percent), Germany (71 percent) and France (82 percent) all supporting legislation outlawing such veils in schools, hospitals, and government offices.

The priest of the church found the number 666 and an upside down cross on the glass that protects Veil of Veronica, a relic believed to have touched the face of Jesus Christ.

[18] Insisting on the importance of the veil for women, responding to a situation where a group of young women in the church of Carthage, claiming that the status and virtue achieved by their renunciation freed them from social conventions (which insisted that women remain veiled in church), boldly took their positions in church with faces uncovered and head unveiled, Tertullian reiterates forcefully that there is great danger in such actions because

Once, it was to address a French ban on girls wearing face - covering veils in public schools, other times, a Swiss prohibition on minarets and the burning of churches in Malaysia.

If most are against the face veil, does the one who insists on wearing it have the «right and freedom» to wear it, for one thing so she does not run over Sabio in her car.

He also made a thinly - veiled call for Blair to face war crime charges as he called on Britain to support moves to give the International Criminal Court «the power to prosecute those responsible for the crime of military aggression».

In the Court's opinion, in view of its impact on the rights of women who wished to wear the full - face veil for religious reasons, a blanket ban on the wearing in public places of clothing designed to conceal one's face could be regarded as proportionate only in a context where there was a general threat to public safety.

London mayor Boris Johnson reluctant to ban the wearing of full face veils after Lib Dem MP Jeremy Browne calls for a nationwide debate on whther they should be permitted in some sensitive areas

Two weeks after the Orlando massacre, and just days after Congressman John Lewis's sit - in on the House floor highlighting Congressional inaction on gun safety, hundreds of GAGers marched in the NYC Pride Parade, 49 of them shrouded in white veils and carrying signs with the names and faces of each Orlando victim.

It applies like a thin white veil on your face.

The first time I applied two drops of Clarins Double Serum I felt like an invisible veil of hydratation landed on my face.

The main thing I knew about the veil is I wanted a traditional, sits - on - top, covers - face double veil.

It is up to Rune Knudsen, a Norwegian biologist, to take on a desperate struggle against fear and death, and to face the primordial force lurking beyond the veiled sky.

In puritan New England, a handsome young minister faces his congregation and the town for years with a black veil on his face.

White Swan Hotel is located on the historical Shamian Island, overlooking the famed Pearl River and facing the White Swan Pool, the White Swan Hotel remains an oasis of tranquility from the hustle and bustle of this busy city.The main building has the height of 34 storeys.The exquisitely beautiful Atrium lobby is an indoor microcosm of the famed landscapes of Southern China.Here waters abound, with a veil - like cascade and a spectacular rockery.Atop the rockery sits an elegant Chinese pavilion, octagon - shaped, with its richly ornate gold top, and a profusion of luxuriant vegetation and flowers.

Our artists have helped lift the veil on tyranny, with anyone infringing freedom inevitably facing an artist's brush or singers verse.

Seated with legs akimbo, wearing a constructed traditional tiered wedding cake, with an open smile on her face and wearing a white wedding veil, the image is humorous but wickedly clever in its deconstruction of what the traditional wedding signified (s).

After a few minutes of exposure to the projected image, the powder retains a faint green image of the two faces on its surface, something akin to the «latent image» of photographic film or the veil of memory.

The 75 demonstrators from the Liberate Tate group, dressed in black with veils covering their faces, spent 25 hours scrawling words of warning about climate change in charcoal on the sloping floor of the hall.

As to Gov. Palin's thinly veiled ambiguous response regarding man's impact on the climate, she clearly tried to maintain her skeptical stance, which only served to reflect her ignorance of climate issues in the face of overwhelming scientific consensus.

Judges should decide, on a case - by - case basis, whether women can wear the niqab, a full - face veil, while testifying in court, but a blanket rule on the issue would be «untenable,» Canada's top court ruled this morning.

«It is doubtful that the blanket ban on wearing a full - face veil in public pursues a legitimate aim.

S.A.S. v France is the first case in which the European Court of Human Rights has been called to address the validity of a criminal ban on wearing the full - face veil in any public place in relation with the European Convention on Human Rights.

Others are even more radical and vocal, stating the bill should go further and call for a complete ban on the wearing of the niqab or burqa Islamic face veils, similar to what certain European countries are doing.

Article 14 (prohibition of discrimination)-- the applicant complains that the statutory prohibition on wearing a garment designed to conceal one's face in public places gives rise to discrimination based on gender, religion and ethnic origin, to the detriment of women who, like herself, choose to wear a full - face veil

Keep an eye out for the upcoming Grand Chamber hearing on the full - face veil, as well as the open government consultation on the Balance of Competences Fundamental Rights Review.

When faced with this situation, plaintiffs will often attempt to «pierce the corporate veil» and impose personal liability on a corporation's underlying shareholders.

The central issue on this appeal arises from an apparent conflict between the constitutional rights of a witness in a criminal proceeding and the constitutional rights of the accused in that same proceeding.37 The witness, N.S., an alleged victim of historical sexual assaults, contends that her religious beliefs dictate that she must wear a veil covering her face, except her eyes, when testifying.