Saudi women defy driving ban

Source:  Wikipedia

Saudi Facebook campaign sees women drive cars

The call to defy the ban that spread through the social networking sites is the largest en masse action since November 1990, when a group of 47 Saudi women were arrested and severely punished after demonstrating in cars.

"*We've just returned from the supermarket. My wife decided to start the day by driving to the store and back," said columnist Tawfiq Alsaif on his Twitter page.

Source: Daily Telegraph

Vocabulary:

to t_____ - to cause sth (eg a governement, a statue) to lose balance and fall down

b______ (adv) - for a short time

f______ (unc n) - a piece of film that shows an event

to d___ - to refuse to obey a law, a person etc / to do sth in d_______

a s______ d___ - someone who is very easy for an enemy to shoot at or attack

from h___ to t__ - completely covering your body

a p_______ - a thin book of only a few pages which gives some kind of information

a w____ - a prostitute

to h___ an event - to make an event happen / h___ (past, past part)

t______ (n) - the number of people who are present at an event

to d__ - to give sth or sb a particular name

a ban / to ban

to punish / punishment (n)

an array of sth -

a contraint / to constrain -

to stage a demo

to pledge

to scare sb off -

entrenched (adj) -

to encourage -

to take the lead -

as you see fit -

to spread -

a plot of land -

Grammar point:

*"We've just returned from the supermarket."

In the above example, "just" has the sense of a short time ago.

Structure:

have + just + past participle

Don't walk all over the floor with those dirty shoes. I've just cleaned it.

You'll never guess who we have just seen.

Why is she going to London? Hasn't she just come back from there?