1.   Dressed in a traditional black veil, his mother, Hakma, leaned on a wooden cane worn down like driftwood as she remembered the family village.

2.   Even before the aborted election, members of Islamic militias and other militant groups would torment and sometimes kill women who refused to wear the traditional veil.

3.   Instead of a traditional veil, his bride wears a hat.

4.   It has massacred entire villages of men, women and children and declared women who do not wear traditional Muslim veils fit targets for assassination.

5.   Support is sweeping throughout the Moslem world for Islamic extremists who have assassinated women for refusal to don the traditional veil.

6.   About one third of the participants were women in traditional black veils.

7.   About one third of the participants were women, all in traditional black veils.

8.   But the country has resisted pressure to lift further the traditional veil of secrecy surrounding bank accounts.

9.   She wears Western clothes in public, without the traditional Muslim veil, which is worn by almost all women in the Gulf region.

10.   Switzerland has enacted a series of laws in recent years that removed its traditional veil of bank secrecy.