| The degree and kind of purdah observed by women has varied across time and place and from family to family and is also related to class status. |
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| He tried to liberate women from the practices of purdah as well as preaching strongly against the practice of sati. |
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| Do they want him to go around hanging his head in shame, in some sort of judicial purdah? |
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| Having escaped the law her only option was self-imposed purdah on a remote Scottish island. |
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| After eight years of purdah, the former presidents have finally emerged into the glare of the television cameras. |
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| He has barely been seen or heard in the media since he went into purdah in the wake of the donation revelations. |
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| He deprecated the practice of purdah and sati, encouraged inter-caste alliances and remarriage of widows. |
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| Election purdah is no longer just those few weeks of a campaign, it should be now really. |
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| Learn to read, and while you are seated behind the purdah you may make a tour of the whole world. |
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| It seems unlikely that they will all go off on holiday for the duration of the election campaign or adopt the equivalent of the ministerial purdah. |
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| In the sense of attire, purdah can denote the practice of completely covering a woman's body by wearing a loose, body-covering robe called the burqa. |
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| The Hurriyat recommends limited rights for women including the imposition of gender discrimination, purdah, segregation etc. as prescribed by the sharia. |
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| Where social life outside of the compound may be limiting for women due to the institution of purdah, within the household, the movements of women are not constrained. |
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| During purdah they deliberately avoided issues that may breach purdah. |
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| The idea of purdah was acquired from Persian and Byzantine societies, which secluded women out of deference and honor, not in order to humiliate them. |
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| Its famous Palace of the Winds is actually just a wafer-thin facade designed to enable the court's women to observe processions in style, without compromising their purdah. |
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| We hold separate gatherings in our home and observe purdah as much as possible so it isn't that we're looking for any way possible to go against the commandments of Allah. |
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| With the civil service now going into purdah for the European and English county council elections, an announcement isn't expected until next month. |
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| It was election purdah at the time so the concordat was not released. |
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| The report was passed to ministers well before the election purdah period during which announcements cannot be made, but has not been published. |
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| I will keep up, I think, a little of my news purdah – a little less Twitter, a lot less of the free papers. |
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| Polygyny is practised among some ethnic and religious groups, and purdah is practised in north of the country. |
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| Another example of this change is the gradual abandoning of the purdah, at least in its most obvious expressions, which is tending to be replaced by an increasing division between things public and private. |
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| He preached the principle of equality for women by prohibiting purdah and sati. |
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| The descendants of the zombie bank Anglo Irish succeeded in bankrupting Quinn in an Irish court and thus condemning the 65-year-old former master of the Republic's economic universe to up to 12 years in financial purdah. |
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| All of which suggests it will be at least February before recommendations can be made – and with electoral purdah starting at the end of March, there is going to be an incredibly narrow window in which to get things done. |
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| We began to see our world through the purdah and the burqa. |
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| These new shelters, with added simple structures called purdah walls built to provide privacy for the inhabitants, will each provide a home for a household of seven people. |
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| Senior Ukip figures attacked the programme when it aired in February, before the official start of the election campaigning and Ofcom's purdah period. |
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| This decision was kicked into the long grass in the pre-election purdah period but will now return and, if successful, could be followed by a steady stream of similar plans in other parts of the country. |
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| Purdah is observed much more loosely and sometimes not at all by women when they are with their natal families. |
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| Purdah rules prohibited women from saying their husband's name or having their photograph taken. |
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