Her chief center of worship was at Paphos, where the goddess of desire had been worshipped from the early Iron Age in the form of Ishtar and Astarte.

Her chief function was as the goddess of women and marriage.

In parliamentary systems the head of state may be merely the nominal chief executive officer of the state, possessing executive power ( hence the description of the monarch's governments in the UK Commonwealth realms as His / Her Majesty's Government ; a term indicating that all power belongs to the sovereign and the government acts on Her Majesty's behalf, not parliament's ).

Her recommendations respect the equal dignity of Congress and thus embody the anti-royalty sentiment that ignited the American Revolution and subsequently stripped the trappings of monarchy away from the new chief executive.

Her husband, Lord Darnley, had been murdered in apparent revenge for the assassination of Rizzio ( who was a favourite of Mary's ), upon which the Queen almost immediately married the chief suspect.

Her chief opponent was a passionate man named Mainwaring, known for his rudeness.

Her performance caught the attention of Louis B. Mayer, chief executive of Metro Goldwyn Mayer ( MGM ), who brought her to Hollywood in 1925.

Her chief opponent was Maureen Gardner, also coached by Blankers-Koen's husband and who had equalled Blankers's world record prior to the Games, and would be running for her home crowd.

The 2002 Pedro Almodovar film Talk to Her ( Hable con Ella ) has the chief character Benigno tell a story called The Shrinking Lover to Alicia, a long-term comatose patient whom Benigno, a male nurse, is assigned to care for.

Her chief virtues were frugalitas, severitas and fidelis — frugality, sternness, and faithfulness.

Her father was Hersir, a tribal chief.

Her chief sanctuary was at Hierapolis, modern Manbij, northeast of Aleppo, Syria.

Her chief advisor was Práxedes Mateo Sagasta.

Her performance as Dolly won her the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical, in a year when her chief competition was Barbra Streisand for Funny Girl.

Her father was a British lawyer and politician, and became chief legal advisor to King Edward VIII during the Abdication Crisis in 1936.

Her grandfather, Sir Solomon Dias Bandaranike was the Maha Mudaliyar, ( the chief Ceylonese representative and advisor to the Governor ) during British colonial rule.

Her enemies — chief among them, Olympe Mancini, comtesse de Soissons, niece of Cardinal Mazarin -- sought to orchestrate her downfall by bringing her liaison to the ears of Louis's queen, Maria Theresa of Spain.

Her brother, Christopher Garnett, is a former chief executive of the GNER railway, and Peter Jay, the former British Ambassador to the United States, is a cousin, as are Lord Hunt of Chesterton ( Labour ), Lord Oakshott of Seagrove Bay ( Lib-Dem ) and Baron Jay of Ewelme, former British Ambassador to France.

Martz announced that she would not run for re-election as Governor in 2004. Martz's first legislative session resulted in the single largest increase in the education budget in Montana history and tax cuts intended to stimulate the stagnant state economy. Martz had her fair share of scandals, off-color statements, and questionable activities while she was in office, many of which led to her low approval rating during the remaining years of her term as governor ( which were as low as 20 % at one point ). Her chief policy adviser, Shane Hedges, was involved in a drunk driving accident near Marysville, Montana in August 2001, after which he went to Martz's residence, where she washed his clothes.

Her title, Ro, is also hereditary and is held by Rewan chiefs ; like her husband, Lala Mara was a chief in her own right, as the Roko Tui Dreketi ( Paramount Chief ) of Burebasaga and Rewa.

Her ambition was to secure the post of Camarera mayor de Palacio, or chief of the household to the young queen, a child of barely thirteen.

Her high school friend and chief competitor for Archie's affection is the brunette Veronica Lodge.

Her own will had left her three-sevenths of Edgar's estate to one heir, Penelope, who became the chief benefactor and shareholder of-again, virtually nothing.

-- Her choice of one color means she is simply enjoying the motor act of coloring, without having reached the point of selecting suitable colors for different objects.

Her first act surprises Odrade greatly.

Her performance of the " sleepwalking " scene in the fifth act was especially noted ; Leigh Hunt called it " sublime.

Her three act play, " The Whipping " was optioned by Paramount Studios, but never made into a film.

Her 1995 album The Woman in Me brought her fame, and her 1997 album Come On Over became the best-selling studio album of all time by a female act in any genre and the best-selling country album of all time, Come On Over sold more than 40 million copies worldwide.

On 15 April 1984, Cooper collapsed and soon after died from a heart attack in front of millions of television viewers, midway through his act on the London Weekend Television variety show Live From Her Majesty's, transmitted live from Her Majesty's Theatre.

Her most notable act was the restoration of the Orthodox veneration of icons ( images of Christ or the saints ).

Her courageous act was symbolic of Earhart's selflessness ; typically, she rarely referred to the incident in later years.

Her revue, with future TV pioneer Danny Thomas as her opening act, included songs from her films, performances on her musical saw ( a skill she had originally acquired for stage appearances in Berlin in the 1920s ), and a pretend " mindreading " act.

The Lieutenant Governor must refer any Bill to the then Lord Chancellor's Department now Ministry of Justice for advice, on which he is required to act, and certain kinds of Bill are reserved to Her Majesty, in which case the former procedure is followed.

Her publicist friend Edward Lozzi told Vanity Fair writer Dominic Dunne that Clarkson had been working on a stand-up comedy act that he had witnessed.

Her beauty and quick wit attracted Fields, who was the featured act from 1916 until 1922.

In 1916, she appeared in her first film as Julia Lovelace in Her Greatest Performance and continued to act in London and on tour, also making a few more films through 1922, including The Invasion of Britain ( 1918 ), Pillars of Society ( 1920 ), Victory and Peace, Potter's Clay ( 1922 ), and The Bohemian Girl as Buda the nursemaid, with Ivor Novello and Gladys Cooper ( 1922 ).

Her role is essentially to act the part of Truman's wife and ultimately to have a child by him, despite her reluctance to accomplish either.

* Massachusetts hardcore-punk act Bane uses the motif, " a lie is a lie is a lie is a lie " in ' Her Lucky Pretty Eyes ', from their 1999 record It All Comes Down to This.

Her first act as queen was to dismiss the popular Secretary of State of the Kingdom, the Marquis of Pombal, who had broken the power of the reactionary aristocracy via the Tavora affair, partially because of Pombal's Enlightenment, anti-Jesuit policies.

Her husband's " incapacity in the venereal act " and the vital heat of her temperament forced her to turn for sexual satisfaction to the comtesse d ' Artois, then Cardinal de Rohan, but even these efforts could not slake her sexual thirst.

Her older brother, Nick Perri, is a lead guitarist formerly of Shinedown and Philly-based hard rock act Silvertide, and currently plays in SINAI.

When the act to alter the Queen's title was in 1953 debated in the House of Commons, Louis St. Laurent asserted on the nature of the separate and shared characteristics of the Crown: " Her Majesty is now Queen of Canada but she is the Queen of Canada because she is Queen of the United Kingdom ...

Her post-Supremes solo career has been varied and included forays into musical theater, human rights activism, artists ' rights political action, a critically acclaimed jazz and blues cabaret act, organizing various museum displays of the Supremes ' famed costumes and world tours performing the music of the Supremes.

Her suggested solution is to act and create a Workers ' Union.

Section 76 of the Counter-Terrorism Act 2008 came into force on 15 February 2009 making it an offence to elicit, attempt to elicit, or publish information "... of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism " about: a member of Her Majesty's Armed Forces ; a constable, the Security Service, the Secret Intelligence Service, or Government Communications Headquarters.