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Figures including the Yekaterinburg mayor, Yevgeny Roizman, have criticised the punishment given to the Novorossiysk women and Facebook users have expressed their support for the women by posting photographs of locals swimming, sunbathing and drinking alcohol on the beach next to the monument.
As one moderator told me:"There seems to be a huge backlash against the Guardian's increasing coverage of feminist issues, from more frivolous pieces (body hair, sunbathing topless, anything to do with Beyoncé) to pieces on domestic violence, FGM etc. WATM (what about the men) is now something we look out for on any piece about women as standard".
Thus "Kimmeridge (n): The light breeze which blows through your armpit hair when you are stretched out sunbathing "; or "Glassel (n): A seaside pebble which was shiny and interesting when wet, and which is now a lump of rock, but which children nevertheless insist on filling their suitcases with after a holiday".
For example, emerging technologies such as drones bring up a host of privacy issues that extend beyond data collection to encompass data processing, the potential for private space to become public, to infringe on bodily privacy (eg an image captured in someone's garden while they're sunbathing).
Another worry is that nudist families with children may fall foul of a measure intended to block paedophiles.The nudists claim 2.5m supporters (based on an opinion poll which asked people if they liked nude sunbathing and swimming).
Children who learned at grandpa's knee that the hyena is an evil, snarling beast that haunts the night are sometimes perplexed to see real hyenas placidly sunbathing.
They were photographed while the duchess was sunbathing with her husband at a private villa in France; and their exposure in the magazine led to legal action by the couple to suppress the pictures.The action was only partially successful.
"Pepe decreased poverty, improved highways, and invested in construction," says butcher Hugo Flores while sunbathing shirtless on the boardwalk alongside his parked delivery truck in the posh neighborhood of Carrasco.
Players show up in a wide range of conditions: some spend their offseasons fishing or sunbathing , while others compete in Latin American winter leagues and arrive in midseason form.
To him she was a landscape.She was not an exhibitionist, or not much of one, though she had scandalised her Aunt Allie by sunbathing naked on the deck of the big family house at Carmel, and it had been easy to take off her clothes for Edward.
STARS of most reality television shows spend their time nibbling earwigs, sunbathing and bickering.
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"Sunbathing" primarily functions as a noun , referring to the activity of exposing the body to sunlight. As Ludwig AI confirms, it’s also the present participle of the verb sunbathe . This is supported by numerous examples where it serves as the subject or object of a sentence.
Expression frequency: Very common
