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Showing 1 to 20 of 162 for “"Veil"”.
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The veil
<p>The Veil signifies the proverbial wool over the eyes of the public with regard to mortality. We will all die, everyone, we know, and love will die too. We don’t know when, or how, and there is nothing we can do to change the inevitable. Accepting our mortality—and that of those around us—is key …
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Justifications for piercing the corporate veil
… rule is that a court will pierce the corporate veil “only where special circumstances exist indicating that it is a mere façade concealing the true facts, so that the separate existence of the company is in some sense being abused or, at least, is not being maintained in the full sense, with the …
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Beyong the veil : Muslim women write back
… led the Prophet to re-institute the hijablveil, in order to protect women from being sexually harassed. The significance of the hijab is then explored, and Fatima Mernissi's text Women and Islam (1987; 1992) is used as seminal to the argument that the hijab was not instituted to put a …
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Veil Piercing - A Necessary evil? A critical study on the doctrines of limited liability and piercing the corporate veil
… exceptions to this rule: piercing the corporate veil. This paper reveals, after a detailed analysis, that the doctrine of piercing the corporate veil is inherently flawed. While accepting the necessity for such a doctrine in the context of a global market, this paper shows that its application in …
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Lifting the Veil off Widowhood: Portraits of Transformation
This qualitative research study has explored the lives of 13 women who were widowed before the age of 55, who are professionals, educators, businesswomen, and community activists, to learn how their lives have been transformed since the death of their spouse. For this study, the death of a spouse …
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Fallen things: delineating veil-wound-womb through sculptural practice
… that investigates how the overlapping motifs of veil-wound-womb can articulate fragility and the erotic in sculptural practice. This research draws from Christian iconographic traditions of the contact relic and vera icon, Surrealist object theory, and the generative potential of the matrixial …
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Piercing the Corporate Veil: Exploring Legal Implications and Corporate Accountability
… analyse the concept of piercing the corporate veil within the context of South African corporate law. The purpose of this study is to provide a comprehensive understanding of the circumstances in which courts in South Africa may disregard the separate legal personality of a company and hold the …
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The veil as exception and difference in French discourse and policy
<p>My thesis is about how the veil in France has come to symbolize the emergence of a state of exception in a mondern, industrialized, multicultural society. I posit that far from being a new conversation, that France's contemporary discussion on veiling represents a legacy of a much older, …
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The Voice Behind The Veil: Working Experiences of Saudi Female Accountants
Work opportunities for Saudi women have been constrained by cultural, social and religious restrictions. Accountancy is traditionally a male-only field until female Saudi accountants have recently begun to find positions in Saudi audit firms. These women are consequently in a new situation in which …
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The veil of the flesh : a phenomenological reading of Gregory of Nyssa.
… experienced and revealed paradigmatically in the veil of the flesh. Following Chapter One's introduction to the project, Chapters Two works to loosen the grip of a common reading of Gregory's anthropology. According to this interpretation, Gregory's understanding of the immaterial and immortal …
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Lifting the Veil on Hindi Film Song Sequences: An Approach to Analysis
… song sequence “Pardā Haı̃ Pardā” ("There Is a Veil,"? from Manmohan Desai's 1977 film <em>Amar Akbar Anthony</em>), the three essential elements of these sequences (on-screen visuals, text, and music) are connected to the context of South Asian history and culture to demonstrate how scholarly …
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Immigrant Muslim women’s belief and practice of the veil in Southern California
… examination of why a Muslim woman decides to veil or not. Thus, utilizing interviews and the theoretical frameworks developed by Tweed, Vasquez, and others, my study investigated the practice and beliefs of Sunni immigrant Muslim women in the Inland Empire in terms of the veil. Because of the …
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Perceptions of the veil among a group of Sudanese women: a qualitative study
… researchers have criticized the practices of the veil as a tool to oppress women. This study aimed to explore a group of Sudanese women, currently living in South Africa, experiences and perceptions of the veil, whether the veil is a religious dress code or a tool that has been used to exercise …
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Building pockets of peace. A case study using the "Veil of Ignorance" methodology
… explain how I conceptualised the “peace behind a veil of ignorance” (VOI) methodology. The starting point of the theoretical concept is political philosophy (Rawls’ theory of justice) which is complemented by research on emotions, social identity, and intergroup conflict. I detail the process of …
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Lifting the Veil on Black Holes: Approaching the Event Horizon with High-resolution Imaging
Contains fulltext : 236744.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Benjamin Britten’s compositions for children and amateurs: cloaking simplicity behind the veil of sophistication.
The principal aim of this thesis is to examine a portion of Britten’s oeuvre which was intended for performance by children and amateurs and thereby to assess the extent of the composer’s success in achieving music which betrayed all the hallmarks of a sophisticated composition, yet providing a …
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Family narratives of child-to-parent violence and abuse: lifting the veil of secrecy.
Abstract redacted by the author.
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Beneath the burning issue of Beadica: public policy and context astride the corporate veil
… is this ember, the implications of the corporate veil being lifted in the evaluation of equality, that represents, if not something new, then the confirmation of what some have long argued for - or suspected. Chapter IV accordingly argues that Beadica is a confirmation of the imperative of …
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Beyond the Veil: Revealing the Hidden Qualities of Objects and Spaces through Electroacoustic Audiovisual Experiences
The twentieth century gave rise to rapid developments in science, technology, and the arts. In visual art, a significant step came from the Surrealist exhibitions that started in 1939, which made the transformation of the gallery space as important as the individual works being shown. These …
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