The marriage of ` Abdu ’ l-Bahá to one woman and his choice to remain monogamous, from advice of his father and his own wish, legitimised the practice of monogamy to a people whom hitherto had regarded polygamy as a righteous way of life.

In Hosea 2, the woman in the marriage metaphor is Hosea ’ s wife Gomer.

In 1942 she was named President-elect of The Herdwick Sheepbreeders ’ Association, the first time a woman had ever been elected to that office, but died before taking office.

In the course of a woman ’ s life, her breasts will change size, shape, and weight, because of the hormonal bodily changes occurred in thelarche ( pubertal breast development ), menstruation ( fertility ), pregnancy ( reproduction ), the breast-feeding of an infant child, and the climacterium ( the end of fertility ).

The lymphatic drainage of the breasts is especially relevant to oncology, because breast cancer is a cancer common to the mammary gland, and cancer cells can metastasize ( break away ) from a tumour and be dispersed to other parts of the woman ’ s body by means of the lymphatic system.

Moreover, the physical changes occurred to the breasts usually are recorded in the stretch marks of the skin envelope ; they are historical indicators of the increments and the decrements of the size and the volume of a woman ’ s breasts throughout the course of her life.

" Though advised regularly of Beaux ’ s progress abroad and to " not be worried about any indiscretions of ours ", her Aunt Eliza repeatedly reminded her niece to avoid the temptations of Paris, " Remember you are first of all a Christian – then a woman and last of all an Artist.

As a poet, she was well known and highly regarded in her own day ; she completed 41 works during her 30 year career ( 1399 – 1429 ), and can be regarded as Europe ’ s first professional woman writer.

Written in 1429, The Tale of Joan of Arc celebrates the appearance of a woman military leader who, according to de Pizan, vindicated and rewarded all women ’ s efforts to defend their own sex.

De Pizan then argues that " skill in discourse should be a part of every woman ’ s moral repertoire ".

She understood that a woman ’ s influence is realized when her speech accords value to chastity, virtue, and restraint.

However, Draper ’ s scheduled appearance in January 1950 was met with opposition from Hester McCullough, a woman who involved herself in the hunt for subversives.

Sahaptin has an ergative noun case ( with suffix-nɨm ) that is limited to transitive constructions only when the direct object is 1st or 2nd person: iwapáatayaaš łmámanɨm ‘ the old woman helped me ’; paanáy iwapáataya łmáma ‘ the old woman helped him / her ’ ( direct ); páwapaataya łmámayin ‘ the old woman helped him / her ’ ( inverse ).

Produced by Dino De Laurentiis and starring Giulietta Masina, the film took its inspiration from news reports of a woman ’ s decapitated head retrieved in a lake and stories by Wanda, a shantytown prostitute Fellini met on the set of Il Bidone.

In many respects, the novel ’ s “ current reader ” of the time was the woman who “ lay down her book with affected indifference, or momentary shame ,” according to Jane Austen, author of Northanger Abbey.

Gay and lesbian rights advocates argued that one ’ s sexual orientation does not reflect on one ’ s gender ; that is, “ you can be a man and desire a man ... without any implications for your gender identity as a man ,” and the same is true if you are a woman.

Hong Kong has one of the world ’ s lowest birth rates — 0. 9 per woman of child-bearing age, far below the replacement rate of 2. 1.

Lines traced over each woman ’ s back lead to the ground and then back up in a repetitive motion identical to their unending, backbreaking labor.

In addition, Fenton ’ s inability to understand both the plight of woman and Ruth Parson ’ s feelings of alienation further illustrate the differences of men and women in society.

Riefenstahl went on to star in many of Fanck ’ s mountain films as an athletic and adventurous young woman with a suggestive appeal ; she became an accomplished mountaineer during the winters of filming on mountains and learned filmmaking techniques.

of a woman ’ s defiance and claim of equality by creating Eve from

Antenatal care is normally provided in clinics, and postnatal care is initially provided in the woman ’ s home.

In 1879, a Methodist woman, Frances E. Willard, was voted to the presidency of the Women ’ s Christian Temperance Union, an organization which was characterized by heavy Methodist participation.

The author of the Catholic Encyclopedia article goes on to enumerate the accounts of each of these three persons ( the unnamed " sinner ", Mary Magdalene, and Mary of Bethany ) in the Gospel of Luke and concludes that based on these accounts “ there is no suggestion of an identification of the three persons, and if we had only Luke to guide us we should certainly have no grounds for so identifying them the same person .” He then explains first the Catholic position equating Mary of Bethany with the sinful woman of Luke by referring to, where Mary is identified as the woman who anointed Jesus, and noting that this reference is given before John ’ s account of the anointing in Bethany:

But with the exception of professional athletes, few contact sports and physical education activities in our schools have any carryover in the adult life of the average American man or woman.

We should not underestimate the significance of this point, as education was the bottom line qualification for being a junzi or " noble person ,"... her example suggests that the Confucian prescription for a meaningful life as a woman was apparently not stifling for all women.

It disclosed a " distinct pattern " of abuses by the contras, including: " attacks on purely civilian targets resulting in the killing of unarmed men, woman, children and the elderly ; – premeditated acts of brutality including rapes, beatings, mutilations and torture ; – and individual and mass kidnappings of civilians for the purpose of forced recruitment into the Contra forces and the creation of a hostage refugee population in Honduras ; – assaults on economic and social targets such as farms, cooperatives and on vehicles carrying volunteer coffee harvesters ; – intimidation of civilians who participate or cooperate in government or community programs such as distribution of subsidized food products, education and local self-defense militias ; – and kidnapping, intimidation, and even murder of religious leaders who support the government, including priests and clergy-trained lay pastors.

It is education for combat ... war is to man what maternity is to the woman.

In 1886, her mother, inspired by an account in Charles Dickens ' American Notes of the successful education of another deaf and blind woman, Laura Bridgman, dispatched young Helen, accompanied by her father, to seek out Dr. J. Julian Chisolm, an eye, ear, nose, and throat specialist in Baltimore, for advice.

The midwife has an important task in health counseling and education, not only for the woman, but also within the family and community.

A woman who possessed this combination of physique, virtue, skill, and education must have been difficult to find in antiquity.

Aged 13, Mao finished primary education, and his father had him married to Luo Yixiu ( 1889 – 1910 ), a woman eight years his senior, in order to unite their two land-owning families.

In 2003, a woman was appointed to the cabinet as minister of education.

As a woman, Germain was barred from attending, but the new system of education made the “ lecture notes available to all who asked.

Before her marriage, Majer studied physical education at Temple University and later became the first woman to head the Physical Education Department at the University of Pennsylvania.

On a personal level, William admired the king's education and his interest in history and law, but also noted that Amalric had " breasts like those of a woman hanging down to his waist " and was shocked when the king questioned the resurrection of the dead.

Kalamazoo College also served as a pioneer in coed education, granting its first degree to a woman, Miss Catherine V. Eldred, in 1870.

Born in Baltimore County, Maryland to a free African-American woman and a former slave, Banneker had little formal education and was largely self-taught.

In 2008 sister congresswomen Loretta Sanchez and Linda Sanchez published the joint memoir Dream in Color: How the Sanchez Sisters Are Making History in Congress. Publishers Weekly reviewed the book and wrote: " Linda and Loretta Sanchez present their compelling story — noteworthy not only for their history-making achievements ( including first sisters or women of any relation to serve together in Congress, first woman and person of color to represent a district in Orange County, first Latina on the House Judiciary Committee and first Head Start child to be elected to Congress ) but also for its “ American Dream ” aspect — their parents immigrated from Mexico and despite lacking a formal education managed to send their seven children to college.

Hertha also raised the debate of higher formal education for women, and in 1861, the University for Women Teachers, Högre lärarinneseminariet, was founded by the state after the suggested woman university in Hertha.

His father was an aged veteran of the Seven Years ' War who died before Vigny's 20th birthday ; his mother, twenty years younger, was a strong-willed woman who was inspired by Rousseau and took responsibility herself for Vigny's early education.

However, he is in love with his cousin Angela ( Stefania Sandrelli ), a very much younger and attractive woman whom he sees only during the summers because her family sends her away to the city to a nunnery to receive her education.

" Islamists generally tend to favour the education of women and their participation in social and political life: the Islamist woman militates, studies, and has the right to work, but in a chador.

Higuchi succeeded, as a woman, in receiving a classical education and creating literary works that became popular and critical successes for Meiji literature.

However, she was ultimately unable to finance a musical education in Quebec, where singing and acting were considered unsavoury careers for a woman, and her family moved to Albany, New York in 1865.

After eight months of travelling and writing in Canada, she felt it useless to prolong a life far from all ties of family happiness and opportunities for a woman of her class and education.

As an application of these general principles, social conservatives in many countries generally: favor the pro-life position in opposing euthanasia, embryonic stem cell research, and abortion ; oppose both eugenics ( inheritable genetic modification ) and human enhancement ( transhumanism ) while supporting bioconservatism ; support abstinence-only education, school prayers, gun ownership and defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman ; support the continued prohibition of recreational or medically non-beneficial drugs ; oppose prostitution and brothels, polygamy, gay adoption, premarital sex, and non-marital sex ; and object to pornography and what they consider to be indecency and promiscuity.

It remained in use for the ' readings ' ( lectures ) and ' moots ' ( academic debates ), held in the Inns of Court as part of the education of young lawyers, but essentially it quickly became a written language alone ; it ceased to acquire new words, its grammar degenerated ( by about 1500 gender was often neglected, giving rise to such absurdities as une home (' a ( feminine ) man ') or un feme (' a ( masculine ) woman '), and its vocabulary became increasingly English, as it was used solely by English lawyers and judges who often spoke no real French.