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feme

a woman or wife.
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The event included five exhibitions, more than 60 seminars and ten live events, namely; the seventh International Conference for Security and National Resilience (ISNR Abu Dhabi 2016); the 1st International Conference on Security Challenges (ICSC); the "Aftershock II" live demonstration onresponding to crises and emergencies; the second Fire and Emergency Middle East (FEME); the second UAE International Firefighter Challenge; the second Occupational Safety and Health Middle East (OSHME); and the sixth International Cyber Crimes Conference (IC3).
"The ISNR Abu Dhabi 2014 main events will feature several activities, namely; the sixth edition of the International Exhibition for Security and National Resilience (ISNR Abu Dhabi 2014); the International Conference on Security Challenges (ICSC); a live demonstration on responding to crises and emergencies entitled "Aftershock"; the first edition of the Fire & Emergency Middle East (FEME); the first UAE's International Firefighter Championship; the first edition of the Occupational Safety and Health Middle East (OSH ME); and the fifth International Conference on Digital Forensics and Cyber Crime," concluded Major General Al Kutbi.
In the editorial he thanked a number of people, including: Carolyn Frost and Feme McCoombs, who typed all the manuscripts; his daughters, who helped with clerical work; Franco Medioli, Michael McMullen, and Georges Drapeau, who provided editorial help; and the printer J.
Or, to put it slightly differently, knowing oneself as a husband required knowing one's wife as a feme covert, as a dependent" (136).
(97) England operated under the system of feme covert, which means "covered woman" and which furthered the idea that upon marriage, a woman's independent legal identity gets subsumed or "covered" by her husband's legal identity.
Cuidai, beau sire, qu'el queist amistiez Ou itel chose que feme a home quiert.
But in training, she showed a baffling: level of "feminine unpredictability" On her occasional good day, she was very, very good, and I dreamed of her being elected to the retriever hall of feme. On her more numerous bad days, she was horrid, and I wondered whether even aunt Minnie would be happy with her.
Brooks suggested that fashion was often the only means of expression available to a woman during the period, and she highlighted the importance of the legal status of a married woman, whose designation as a feme covert meant that she had no independent legal identity and was instead subsumed under the identity of her husband.