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A 2004 law banned Muslim headscarves and other "ostentacious" religious symbols from public schools.
Raw Story 2010
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A 2004 law banned Muslim headscarves and other "ostentacious" religious symbols from public schools.
Raw Story 2010
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They are, simply, a very loud and ostentacious minority.
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I think both trailers are ostentacious attempts to remind the audience of other well recieved Disney movies.
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Etc. Then there's the guy with a hunk of ostentacious gold wristwear strutting around with a set of those plastic wrap around, oddly shaped reflecting shades that guys who drive tanks seem to prefer propped up on his forehead.
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I did steal my plumage from the original mask sold with the Mardi Gras costume - the plumage is both congrous and ostentacious to great effect, particularly when pushing through the fringe of this flowing ponytail hair style from Truth.
Fashion World of SL iheartsl.com 2010
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They pledge to forego travelling around the world within their fleet of ostentacious spheres
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They pledge to forego travelling around the world within their fleet of ostentacious spheres
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I did steal my plumage from the original mask sold with the Mardi Gras costume - the plumage is both congrous and ostentacious to great effect, particularly when pushing through the fringe of this flowing ponytail hair style from Truth.
Fashion World of SL 2010
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This is the same Winnie Mandela who built herself an enormous house in Soweto, which her husband said he would never live in as it was so ostentacious.
IOL: News 2010
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