Her position covers a number of daily tasks common to any social director.

Her older half-sister, Mary, had lost her position as a legitimate heir when Henry annulled his marriage to Mary's mother, Catherine of Aragon, in order to marry Anne and sire a male heir to ensure the Tudor succession.

Her ambition, personal wit and cleverness won her a distinguished position in society, in spite of her humble origin.

Her position as a Marchesa required her serious attention, therefore she was required to study the problems faced by a ruler of a city-state.

Her outspoken defense of capitalism in works like Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal ( 1967 ), and her characterization of her position as a defence of the ' virtue of selfishness ' in her essay collection of the same title published in 1964, also brought notoriety, but kept her out of the intellectual mainstream.

Her limited charms and conventual upbringing were not potent enough to wean Charles away from the society of his mistresses, and within a few weeks of her arrival she became aware of her difficult position as the wife of a licentious king, but, although Charles continued to have children by his mistresses, he insisted she be treated with respect.

Her next role would significantly reinforce her position as a bona fide international movie star, The English Patient, based on the prize winning novel by Michael Ondaatje and directed by Anthony Minghella, was a worldwide hit.

Buckingham Palace confirmed his recommendation on 1 October saying that: " The Queen is content for Her Excellency Professor Marie Bashir AC, to remain in her current position until February 2008 as recommended.

Her position as an eligible imperial princess saw her considered as a possible bride for the Holy Roman Emperor in the west, Otto III in 996.

Her position in the Court of the King was such that when Pope Paul III sent the new Queen Catherine the " Golden Rose ", he did not forget to present the royal mistress Diane with a pearl necklace.

Her " horses " tend to get in a fetal position or birthing position and cry tears of pain.

The singles, " Could've Been " and " I Saw Him Standing There ", a feminine cover version of The Beatles ' " I Saw Her Standing There ", followed soon after, with the former also claiming the number one position on the Billboard Hot 100.

Her social position was cemented when she married her lover, Baron Kuffner, on 3 February 1934 in Zurich ( his wife had died the year before ).

The present Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, was appointed Lord President of the Council, a ministerial position who presides over meetings of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council and has few other formal responsibilities, for this reason.

In January 1891, Mannerheim was transferred to Her Majesty's Maria Feodorovna's Chevalier Guard in St Petersburg-a position in which his height ( he stood at 187 cm ( 6 ' 1½ ")) was an advantage, and one which also led to his being given a prominent place in the ceremonies for Tsar Nicholas II's coronation in 1896.

Her interference to veto the reappointment of the universally popular Mr Septimus Harding ( protagonist of Trollope's earlier novel, The Warden ) as warden of Hiram's Hospital is not well received, even though she gives the position to a needy clergyman, Mr Quiverful, with 14 children to support.

Her first position was as research associate at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois ( known as Fermilab ) where she studied hadrons.

Her position denying a national right of self-determination under socialism provoked philosophic tension with Vladimir Lenin.

Her common sense told her that the only way she could save the man she loved from the vengeance of his enemies after her death was to facilitate in time his descent from his untenable position.

Her personal charms were not potent enough to wean Charles away from the society of his mistresses, and in a few weeks after her arrival she became aware of her painful and humiliating position as the wife of a licentious king.

Her position was a difficult one, and though Charles continued to have children by his many mistresses, he insisted she be treated with respect, and sided with her over his mistresses when he felt she was not receiving the respect she was due.

Her early essay on The Relative Social Position of Mothers and Governesses was the work of one who knew both sides ; and in no respect does she more clearly prove the falseness of the position she describes than in the certainty with which she predicts its eventual reform.

Her position as an eligible imperial princess saw her considered as a possible bride for the Holy Roman Emperor in the west, Otto III in 996.

Her temper sparked like charcoal when it first lights up.

Her first day at work she was puzzled by an entry in the doctor's notes on an emergency case.

Her first class wasn't until ten, but she always got up to have breakfast with me.

Her first actual flight, for she and her kind had made mock flights on dummy panels since she was eight, showed her complete mastery of the techniques of her profession.

Her first appearance was in a short story published in The Sketch magazine in 1926, " The Tuesday Night Club ", which later became the first chapter of The Thirteen Problems ( 1932 ).

Her first appearance in a full-length novel was in The Murder at the Vicarage in 1930.

Her mother ’ s marriage to Agrippa was her second marriage, as Julia the Elder was widowed from her first marriage, to her paternal cousin Marcus Claudius Marcellus and they had no children.

Her reputed last words, uttered as the assassin was about to strike, were " Smite my womb ", the implication here being she wished to be destroyed first in that part of her body that had given birth to so " abominable a son.

Her second and last novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, which is considered to be one of the first sustained feminist novels, appeared in 1848.

Her first marriage, at the age of fifteen, was to the son of her father's rival in Italy, Lothair II, the nominal King of Italy ; the union was part of a political settlement designed to conclude a peace between her father and Hugh of Provence, the father of Lothair.

Her goal was to become the first Christian singer-songwriter who was also successful as a contemporary pop singer.

Her father's grandfather had fled France during the Revolution, going first to Saint-Domingue, then New Orleans, and finally to Cuba where he helped build that country's first railway.

Her first published work was a critical evaluation of D. H. Lawrence called D. H. Lawrence: An Unprofessional Study, which she wrote in sixteen days.

Her work was selected for exhibition in six subsequent Salons until, in 1874, she joined the " rejected " Impressionists in the first of their own exhibitions, which included Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Alfred Sisley.

Her first school was located in a 17th-century house.

Her first act surprises Odrade greatly.

Her mother, Kay Calista, reversed her own first and middle names in naming her Calista Kay.

Her report, Work Accidents and the Law ( 1910 ), became a classic and resulted in the first workers ' compensation law, which she drafted while serving on a New York state commission.

Her first stories appeared in pulp magazines in the 1930s, including two significant series in Weird Tales.

Her first name, Drew, was the maiden name of her paternal great-grandmother, Georgie Drew Barrymore ; her middle name, Blyth, was the original surname of the dynasty founded by her great-grandfather, Maurice Barrymore.

Her recording of " Sentimental Journey " was the first song placed in the Grammy Hall of Fame.

Her first country single, " Dumb Blonde " ( one of the few songs during this era, that she recorded but did not write ), reached number twenty-four on the country music charts in 1967, followed the same year with Something Fishy, which went to number seventeen.

Her first entirely self-produced effort, 1977's New Harvest ... First Gathering, highlighted Parton's pop sensibilities, both in terms of choice of songs-the album contained covers of the pop and R & B classics " My Girl " and " Higher and Higher " – and the album's production.