The earliest MPB borrowed elements of the bossa nova and often relied on thinly veiled criticism of social injustice and governmental repression, often based on progressive opposition to the political scene characterized by military dictatorship, concentration of land ownership, and imperialism.

There is a particular irony to a self proclaimed Hindu nationalist like Modi, whose speeches reveal a thinly veiled contempt for Muslims, laying claim to the legacy of a Gandhian leader who would never have qualified his Indian nationalism with a religious label.

Two of his later novels were based on historical people The Moon and Sixpence is about the life of Paul Gauguin and Cakes and Ale contains what were taken as thinly veiled and unflattering characterizations of the authors Thomas Hardy (who had died two years previously) and Hugh Walpole.

Raila met yesterday with Finance Minister Amos Kimunya and even the finance minister who barely 4 months ago said that the Nairobi stock exchange was not a fish market in a thinly veiled personal attack targeting Hon Raila Odinga is now all of a sudden talking very respectfully about Raila.

They took the tapioca roots up to the kitchen, sliced them thinly and made delicious chips.

There was patent gloating about the German defeat everywhere, only thinly disguised behind strained expressions of solidarity.

So the puzzle is, why are bribes, polite requests, solicitations and threats so often veiled?

God has sealed their hearts and ears, and veiled their eyes. For them is great deprivation.

In the estimation of one of her biographers, Ida Görres, they are scarcely veiled self portraits.

High Times ' Tim Kenneally saw the record as a revelation, both disturbingly intimate and cryptically veiled.

Paul adamantly protested his mother s policies, writing a veiled criticism in his Reflections , a dissertation on military reform.

The plot of the play is a veiled look at the way people reacted to the plot of Ghosts .

The low mountain ranges around Wetzlar to the northwest, northeast and south, on the other hand, are heavily wooded and very thinly populated.

Turkmenistan is a society so veiled in shadows that one wonders whether its own leaders believe in the government s propaganda.

The German air arm found itself spread thinly across Europe, struggling to maintain its strength in the other southern sectors of the Soviet German front.

In Yemen, most women are veiled and they are sitting behind doors and not very much part of the public life.

NA As you know, the image of a lot of Yemeni women is a lot of black and covered, veiled women.

In Tunisia, a mass protest called for all women to be veiled, which led to unveiled female religion professors being hounded off campuses.

With veiled references to an impending apocalypse, the song gained more resonance when the Cuban Missile Crisis developed a few weeks after Dylan began performing it.

Also, Frederick William settled more than 20,000 Protestant refugees from Salzburg in thinly populated eastern Prussia, which was eventually extended to the west bank of the River Memel, and other regions.

The Army, despite its highly experienced and battle hardened officer corps, was plagued during peacetime by units which were badly paid, inadequately equipped, poorly trained and thinly spread across the vast Empire.

And he says, I was just thinking that maybe we could take care of it here in Fargo, which everyone, including the audience, interprets as a veiled bribe.

And in a more subtle way, I think, this works for all of the veiled speech acts involving plausible deniability the bribes, threats, propositions, solicitations and so on.

In Kandinsky s work some characteristics are obvious, while certain touches are more discrete and veiled they reveal themselves only progressively to those who deepen their connection with his work.

On the other hand, with indirect language, if you issue a veiled bribe, then the dishonest officer could interpret it as a bribe, in which case you get the payoff of going free.

Although Goebbels insisted that all newspapers in Germany should publish content uniformly favourable to the regime, publishers still managed to include veiled criticism, for example by editorialising about dictatorships in ancient Rome or Greece.

However, the illustrative citation on the Oxford Dictionary web site is she felt she was struggling against thinly disguised misogyny which perhaps reflects, if you think about it, more the sense in which Julia Gillard and others have used the word.

And likewise, if someone says, Nice store you've got there. It would be a real shame if something happened to it we understand that as a veiled threat, rather than a musing of hypothetical possibilities.

And so along with changing who worked there, you must have come up against another positioning that we always run into, in particular with women, and it has to do with outside image, dress, the veiled woman.

All around the world, women who opt to wear hijab (the Islamic head covering) are also opting to blog about their experiences, as well as veiled fashion, lifestyle, experience, and the political and religious issues surrounding it.

Let me give you an example in Turkey where I come from, which is a very hyper secular republic, until very recently we used to have what I call secularism police, which would guard the universities against veiled students.

In one recent post, the blogger profiled Indonesian designer of Islamic fashion Itang Yunasz Itang Yunasz is a designer that used to create revealing gowns but then dissappeared for some years, to return with a comeback collection designed for veiled women.

Only later would I see the dresses also as a proclamation that in your dim kitchen, your laundry, your bleak concrete yard, what you revealed of yourself was a fabulation your real sensual nature, veiled in those sexless vestments, was utterly your dominion.

Mr President, the oil tanker Erika, the ownership of which is veiled by accommodation addresses on Malta and probably in Italy and Greece and which was hired by Total Fina for the transport of oil, foundered off the Breton coastline, with disastrous consequences.

There may be an echo of strife with Lydia and perhaps a veiled reference to royal hostages, in the legend of the twice unlucky Phrygian prince Adrastus, who accidentally killed his brother and exiled himself to Lydia, where King Croesus welcomed him.

Prayers at the foot of the altar Sign of the Cross The priest, after processing in at solemn Mass with deacon, and subdeacon, master of ceremonies and servers, and at other Masses with one or more servers and at Low Mass placing the veiled chalice on the centre of the altar, makes the sign of the Cross at the foot of the altar.