NAGPUR, India (RNS/ENInews) Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams deplored attempts by European governments to prohibit Muslim women from wearing body-covering burqas in public. ❋ Josh Fleet (2010)
Slowly things escalate as the sort-of narratives intersect and eventually the landfill becomes ground zero for the delivery of a huge mutant airblown inflatable holiday lawn ornament to a troupe now encased in body-covering carapaces of neon colored interlocking balloons. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Total body-covering Islamic veils demean women and the restriction will be included in an upcoming bill on religious issues, Justice Minister Francisco Caamano said. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Two Muslim women were ordered to leave a swimming pool in a French holiday village on the southwest coast for wearing body-covering "burkinis." ❋ Unknown (2010)
Two Muslim women were ordered to leave a swimming pool in a French holiday village on the southwest coast for wearing body-covering "burkinis." ... ❋ Unknown (2010)
The lawmakers are specifically targeting the body-covering burqa and face-veiling niqab, which are still rare features in Belgian public life. ❋ Unknown (2010)
MADRID — Spanish lawmakers will debate barring burqas in public, joining other European countries considering similar moves on the grounds that the body-covering garments are degrading to women, the leading opposition party said Sunday. ❋ Unknown (2010)
After all, almost all the 22,000 residents of Kiryas Joel are Hasidic and abide by their religious customs of wearing heavy, body-covering clothing even through the heatwave that has gripped New York this summer. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Lleida, also in the Spanish region of Catalonia, last month became the first Spanish city to regulate use of body-covering burqas or face-covering niqab garments. ❋ Unknown (2010)
She was further distressed later in the evening at the sight of male swimmers wearing high-tech body-covering swimming suits. ❋ Unknown (2008)
I also bought her a body-covering swimsuit with factor 40 sun protection, because I really, really don't want to cope with a sunburned baby at all this summer. ❋ Ailbhe (2005)
We found we should have just enough money to rent a cottage, buy body-covering and plain food. ❋ Alma Tadema, Laurence (1894)
They are no less familiar with small bucklers, yet they say nothing about them and cling to the traditional body-covering shield. ❋ Andrew Lang (1878)
They _could_ ride, as every one must see, even though equipped with great body-covering shields. ❋ Andrew Lang (1878)
He seems, undeniably, to have large body-covering shields present to his mind as in common use. ❋ Andrew Lang (1878)