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Her and stance
Her pose is impossible: although she stands in a classical contrapposto stance, her weight is shifted too far over the left leg for the pose to be held.
Her stance is that " human beings are complex wholes, about which we know really very little " and that attempts to reduce this are naive, unjustified and doomed to failure.
While she was Chair of the US Commission on Immigration Reform she argued that " it is both a right and a responsibility of a democratic society to manage immigration so that it serves the national interest .” Her stance on immigration is cited by opponents of current US immigration policy who cite her willingness to penalize employers who violate US immigration regulations, to tighten border security, and to oppose amnesty or any other pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants and to broaden the grounds for the deportation of legal immigrants.
Her proposals in the 2005 white paper to reduce the number and influence of parent governors in Trust Schools, were seen as a partial reversal of this earlier stance.
Her parents had an independent political stance, never telling their children for whom they voted.
Her alleged tough policies in this department, including a firm stance on asylum policy, earned her the nickname " Jern-Erna " ( Norwegian for " Iron Erna ") in the media.
Her position on foreign affairs is congruent with the policy stance of PiS, based on the concept of Poland as a strong, independent country, poised to confront Germany or Russia when necessary.
Her political stance became more moderate over time and she left the PCM for the Unified Socialist Party of Mexico ( PSUM ).
Her understanding and empathy for the native African people and their interests, along with her stance on their so called " savage " way of life earned her unwanted fame and a mislabel as a feminist, an image she countered whenever given the chance.
Her public stance with a British MP led to a bill which banned under 18s from using tanning beds.
Her political stance is conservative.
Her stance as an individualist versus a collectivist is controversial, with both sides claiming her as an adherent.
Her conservative, market-oriented political stance was well reflected in her campaign pledge for 2008 presidential bid to cut tax, reduce regulation, and establish strong law and order.
Her precarious marriage past, numerous quarrels, her obesity, her political stance were topics she sold in constant revisions of the fame she had acquired.
Made after the Motion Picture Production Code came into effect, however, The Law in Her Hands was forced into adopting " a reactionary stance towards the gender switch ", and concluded with a plot twist that was the complete opposite of the Pre-Code period ( 1929 – 1934 ), when " female characters on the screen could say, do, and be whatever they wanted ".

Her and on
Her quarters were on the right as you walked into the building, and her small front room was clogged with heavy furniture -- a big, round, oak dining table and chairs, a buffet, with a row of unclaimed letters inserted between the mirror and its frame.
Her house stood on a rise of ground, and before she got into her car she looked at the houses below.
Her legs hung down long and thin as she sat on the high stool.
Her first day at work she was puzzled by an entry in the doctor's notes on an emergency case.
Her effort to put the home of living Presidents on the same basis as Mount Vernon and Monticello recognizes no party lines.
Her father's attention would be on the road ahead and it wouldn't deviate an inch until he crossed the bridge at the Falls and took the River Road to LaSalle and, finally, turned in at their own driveway at 387 Heather Heights.
Her mother would be fast asleep curled up against that wonderful, big, safe, solid shoulder next to her on the front seat.
Her husband, who is the son of Alton John Mason of Shreveport, La., and the late Mrs. Henry Cater Parmer, was president of Alpha Tau Omega and a member of Delta Sigma Pi at Lamar Tech, and did graduate work at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa, on a Rotary Fellowship.
Her husband was lying on the kitchen floor, police said.
`` Her basic hull form ( a teardrop ) and her nuclear power plant will be used for almost all new submarines, including the potent Polaris missile submarines '', the statement went on.
Her bouffant coiffure was fortunately combed on the left which happened to be the direction from which a brisk breeze was blowing.
Her hesitation was only momentary and she hoped he didn't notice it, as she settled herself, asked quickly how Miss Jenny and the babies were getting on.
Her hand tightened on the receiver.
Her Cousin Emma Carraway had written it, in her loose high old lady's script -- t's carefully crossed, but l's inclined to wobble like an old car on the downward slope.
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 producer was present and suggested she include a version of it on her 1970 album Whales & Nightingales.
Her practice of accompanying Germanicus on campaigns was considered inappropriate, and her tendency to take command in these situations was viewed with suspicion as subversively masculine.
Her marriage to Claudius was not based on love, but on power.
Her property was confiscated, she left Italy and on Agrippina's orders, she committed suicide.
Her body was cremated that night on a dining couch.
Her household later on gave her a modest tomb in Misenum.
Her hair was a very pretty light brown, and fell on her neck in graceful curls.
Her father had no private income and the parsonage would revert to the church on his death.
Her views on the subject appear to have hardened over time.

Her and slavery
Her family hailed from Arkansas, where her great-grandparents and her maternal grandfather, Henry Eliot, were born into slavery.
Her journeys into the land of slavery put her at tremendous risk, and she used a variety of subterfuges to avoid detection.
Her legal challenge to slavery preceded the more famous Dred Scott case by 17 years.
" Her lectures were seen as anti-clerical since nearly all of the Congregationalist churches in the North continued to refuse to take a stand on the question of slavery.
Her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin ( 1852 ) was a depiction of life for African-Americans under slavery ; it reached millions as a novel and play, and became influential in the United States and United Kingdom.
Her character and beliefs led her to become involved in the movements directed against intemperance and slavery.
Her family was from a border state where slavery was permitted.
Her Appeal attracted much attention, and William Ellery Channing, who attributed to it part of his interest in the slavery question, walked from Boston to Roxbury to thank Mrs. Child for the book.
Her mother was born into slavery at Monticello, where she was a daughter of Joseph Fossett and granddaughter of Elizabeth Hemings ; all owned by Thomas Jefferson.
Her relationship with Lenin was more professional than marital, which Kollontai compared to slavery, but she remained loyal, never once considering divorce.
Her support of slavery and opposition to mixed-race unions created strains in her relationship with the Schoolcraft stepchildren.
Her current projects include a series of self-portraits, a multipart study of the legacy of slavery in Virginia, and intimate images of her family and life.
Her themes of child slavery, motherhood, female independence and freedom through education have won her considerable critical acclaim and honours, including an Order of the British Empire in 2005.
Her children were born into slavery but, as they were seven-eighths European in ancestry, they were legally white under Virginia law of the time.
Her eye-witness indictment of slavery included an account of King Jr's mixed-race children with slave women.
Her most ill-received lecture was likely in Charleston, West Virginia, where her lecture on the evils of slavery was met with such vehement opposition and outrage that she was forced to exercise considerable influence to even get out of the city safely.
Later she and collaborators would edit these conversations, including Hunt's recollections of her grandparents ' histories of slavery, into a popular book, I am Annie Mae: A Black Texas Woman in Her Own Words and then subsequently into a musical drama.
Her writings gave suffrage workers such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott several arguments and ideas that they would need to help end slavery and begin the women ’ s suffrage movement.
Her grandfather, although born into slavery, saw to it that all of his children attended college.
Her paternal 4xgreat-grandparents were John Gosman and his wife Rose, African Americans who each escaped from slavery in New England colonies during the American Revolution by going to British lines.
Her character, Julie, escapes a life of sexual slavery by fleeing with an eccentric German adventurer, played by Jürgen Prochnow, and the two of them take refuge on an island near Indonesia, which is already populated by a savage native warrior tribe.
A report called " Correspondence respecting the alleged existence of Chinese slavery in Hong Kong: presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty " was presented to the English Parliament in 1882 concerning the existence of slavery in Hong Kong, of which many were Tanka girls serving as prostitutes or mistresses to westerners.
Her parents were born in the last years of slavery in Tennessee.

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