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Chinese leaders, for their part, view America’s strategic “pivot to Asia” as a thinly veiled step to tighten its geopolitical containment of China.
But true political honor demands more than veiled condemnations (McCain did not mention Trump by name in his speech), or simply quitting, as Corker and Senior Republican Congressman Pat Tiberi of Ohio are doing.
Moreover, there are even rumors of veiled US threats against central bankers, including the directors of the European Central Bank.
This looks like a thinly veiled allusion to the power struggles of contemporary Europe.
What sold best was an image of oppressive “big government,” reflected in a tax system that was increasingly burdensome to ordinary people, combined with anti-communist nationalism and barely veiled racism.
That toughly worded statement was seen as a veiled but unmistakable warning that the military was prepared to intervene if Gul’s election as president resulted in an effort by the Erdogan government to push its Islamic agenda or take measures that threatened the secular nature of the Turkish political order.
For many, that is a thinly veiled bow to National Socialism.
Add to that Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s overtures to Russian President Vladimir Putin, which may have been a veiled threat to the rest of Europe, and it is hard to know what might happen next.
So, while Russia’s modernization and democratization are in Europe’s interest, its return to an imperial foreign policy and barely veiled authoritarianism at home is not.
And this diplomatic de-escalation, following months of recriminations and veiled threats, suits Southeast Asian leaders just fine.
Veiled SexualityNEW YORK –A woman swathed in black to her ankles, wearing a headscarf or a full chador , walks down a European or North American street, surrounded by other women in halter tops, miniskirts and short shorts.
But are we in the West radically misinterpreting Muslim sexual mores, particularly the meaning to many Muslim women of being veiled or wearing the chador ?
The predominant image is of a passive, exotic, and veiled victim-woman who reacts to events instead of actively participating in them.
The final factor sustaining populism in Europe is US President Donald Trump, whose hostility toward the EU is only thinly veiled.
On the eve of the election, President Donald Trump openly blamed China for the COVID-19 pandemic that was going to doom his second term and made thinly veiled threats.
Two years ago, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson compared veiled Muslim women to “letterboxes,” and back in 2011 French President Nicolas Sarkozy introduced the controversial “burka ban,” prohibiting Muslim women from wearing full-face veils in public.
Yet political leaders have often failed to rein in the thinly veiled racism inherent in some of the popular response to the outbreak so far.
She too had once stood with veiled head, pure and crowned with orange blossom.
It's some lady,' said Kapitonich, who was not yet dressed, and in overcoat and goloshes peeped from the window at the veiled lady standing close to the door.
Reality had temporarily veiled the spiritual tranquillity he had found, but it remained with him.
They all hammered; one only heard these irregular blows, which seemed veiled and remote.
Now, in veiled phrases, he hit at the town curés, at the bishops, at the highly placed clergy, sated with enjoyment, gorged with domination, making pacts with the liberal middle class, in the imbecility of their blindness, not seeing that it was this middle class which had dispossessed them of the empire of the world.
They succeeded each other so rapidly that the moon, veiled at moments, constantly reappeared in limpid clearness.
Sarmiento, whose elevation is 2,070 meters above sea level: a pyramid-shaped block of shale with a very sharp summit, which, depending on whether it's clear or veiled in vapor, "predicts fair weather or foul," as Ned Land told me.
A treble row of large pearls closely encircled her throat; and a handkerchief of lace partially concealed that part of the person that the silk had left exposed, but which the experience of forty years had warned Miss Peyton should now be veiled.
It never required more than a single look to acquaint the trooper with the particulars of every scene that was not uncommonly veiled, and the first survey that he took on entering the house told him more than the observations of a day had put into the possession of Doctor Sitgreaves.
The truth is, that while I was leading this busy life, in a retirement that might compare with that of a monastery, and unseen as I thought by any except the servants of the house (for when I went to Mass it was so early in the morning, and I was so closely attended by my mother and the women of the household, and so thickly veiled and so shy, that my eyes scarcely saw more ground than I trod on), in spite of all this, the eyes of love, or idleness, more properly speaking, that the lynx's cannot rival, discovered me, with the help of the assiduity of Don Fernando; for that is the name of the younger son of the duke I told of."
He reflected how convinced Anselmo would be that he had a second Portia for a wife, and he looked forward anxiously to meeting him in order to rejoice together over falsehood and truth the most craftily veiled that could be imagined.
"Four men," said the landlord, "riding a la jineta, with lances and bucklers, and all with black veils, and with them there is a woman in white on a side-saddle, whose face is also veiled, and two attendants on foot."
And leaving them he returned to where Dorothea was, who, hearing the veiled lady sigh, moved by natural compassion drew near to her and said,"What are you suffering from, senora?
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