Sentence examples for veil against from inspiring English sources

Zineb Sedira, London-based and of Algerian descent, photographs herself looking wraithlike in a white Muslim robe and veil against a white ground.

But it is the first lady's wardrobe that is at the heart of this film: the pink Chanel tweed spattered with blood; the black widow's veil against the stark backdrop of a White House.

The defendant's barrister, Susan Meek, had argued it would breach her client's human rights and be counter to Britain's tolerance of Islamic dress if she had to remove her veil against her wishes during the trial.

Everyone wants to know what she makes of Isis and the radicalised girls who join it; of the veil, against which she has campaigned all her life; of the Charlie Hebdo attack.

Here from my window in my tower, I see the maidenly birches in their bridal veils against the dark pine wood -- there is nothing like the birch in the spring.

(Many prominent Jews have come out against the veil law and against the President's Iraq policy, most notably Bernard Kouchner, the founder of Médecins du Monde and today one of the country's most popular Socialists).

In many statements made in password-protected Internet forums, members say that the jailing of women and campaigns against the full veil turn Muslims against the West.

Some have delivered barely veiled broadsides against Mr. Karzai.

On the same day that Ms. Brooks and Mr. Coulson appeared in court, Mr. Cameron issued barely veiled threats against the Guardian newspaper.

The Greek crisis led to an ugly spate of thinly veiled racism against lazy and spendthrift Mediterranean types in the media.

Now the embattled ruling party is seeking a better result by wooing the nationalist base, while issuing thinly veiled threats against Kurdish voters.