Sentence examples for for a veil from inspiring English sources

Aline begged the mother superior for a veil to save her life, but was refused.

Those calling for a veil ban in Britain have clearly ignored such depressingly routine cases.

This year she turned up for the opening of parliament in an outfit so low cut that one of her male colleagues in the National Alliance jokingly covered her up - with a huge handkerchief that could have easily been mistaken for a veil.

In preparation, they just launched a poster campaign "against the Islamization of Europe" that portrays a blonde woman with the headline "too beautiful for a veil".

Results for composites formed from a veil of polyetheretherketone (PEEK) fibres exhibit behaviours consistent with those observed for PPS.

The feeble argument of culling and control is much the same as for foxes: a veil for naughty fun".

Akthar criticised Clarke for likening a veil to wearing a bag.

In his "Domestic Medicine" (1769), Buchan chastised 18th-century doctors for constructing a veil of mystery around the supposed secrets of their profession.

What with the three-day week, power cuts, platform shoes, elephant-flared jeans, alarming haircuts and Here Come the Double Deckers, you may think there are very good reasons for drawing a veil over the early 70s.

Some modern critics, however, have taken it to task for drawing a veil over the less saintly aspects of Marie Curie's life, notably her passionate affair with a married man in the years after Pierre's death.

Tuesday's legal decision came a few days after France's highest court, the cour de cassation, upheld the firing of a female creche worker for "serious misconduct" after she arrived for work wearing a veil.