He adds that if the woman "feared physical abuse, she was exempted".
The program has a provision prohibiting a private school from requiring a student attending it to participate in any religious activity if the pupil's parent or guardian submits a written request that he or she be exempted.
For law-and-religion watchers all over Europe, the case was an important test: how can democracies with diverse, and in many ways diverging, populations find a compromise between common citizenship and accommodating difference?The story began two years ago when an 11-year-old girl and her Moroccan parents, living in Frankfurt, demanded that she be exempted from co-educational swimming.
It was for this reason that she was exempted from the military service usually required of males in South Korea, being rejected on the grounds of "mental illness".
But while MacDonald's princess is light because she is exempt from gravity, DiCamillo's Princess Pea is simply radiant.
The sleeping woman with her bared breast is alone tranquil; the visual repository of purity, she is exempt from what Max Jacob, in speaking of Modigliani, called "a need for crystalline purity".
Nzolameso remains uncertain about the long-term security of her current accommodation; although as a recipient of employment support allowance she is exempt from the benefit cap, there is an outside chance that she could be asked again to move from the capital if there's a problem with her tenancy.
The sleeping woman with her bared breast is alone tranquil; the visual repository of purity, she is exempt from what Max Jacob, in speaking of Modigliani, called "a need for crystalline purity". Such a need can easily encourage self- destructiveness for what is purer than death?
She has now paid back 10 years of tax plus interest (though it is not clear if she is exempt from paying tax from further back because of a legal statute of limitations).
"HR managers should make sure they understand whether the contingent worker should be an employee or can be a contractor and whether, if the former, he or she is exempt or non-exempt," says McGovern.
She is exempt from the psychoanalytic focus given to others in the series, which Smith attributes to her Asian "mysteriousness".
