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.
"The community are now outraged to find that she was exempt.
Raised comfortably in an upper-middle-class family, she said she didn't confront prejudice against Mexicans — or the troubling notion that she was exempt because of her privilege and her fair skin — until she moved to Chicago.
A corollary that has been deduced from the doctrine of Mary's virginity in the conception of Jesus is the doctrine of her perpetual virginity, not only in conception but in the birth of the child (i.e., she was exempt from the pain of childbirth) and throughout her life.
As a salaried manager, she was exempt from overtime protections and didn't get paid for extra work.
Experts knew about Mediator's off-label use as an appetite suppressant, she says, but the drug was exempted from a Europe-wide ban on this category of drugs in 1999.
But this doesn't mean that she's exempt, only that he's in charge.
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".
