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  • A 2004 law banned Muslim headscarves and other "ostentacious" religious symbols from public schools.

    Raw Story 2010

  • A 2004 law banned Muslim headscarves and other "ostentacious" religious symbols from public schools.

    Raw Story 2010

  • They are, simply, a very loud and ostentacious minority.

    FreedomWorks, Tea Party Patriots head for the Hill 2009

  • I think both trailers are ostentacious attempts to remind the audience of other well recieved Disney movies.

    The Princess and the Frog Movie Trailer #2 | /Film 2009

  • 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.

    OpEdNews - Diary: Rich people leave me sad, baffled. 2006

  • 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

  • They pledge to forego travelling around the world within their fleet of ostentacious spheres

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2010

  • They pledge to forego travelling around the world within their fleet of ostentacious spheres

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2010

  • 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

  • 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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