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Her and use
The incumbent governor is entitled to the use the style of His or Her Excellency, while in office.
Her classical education left its mark ; Christopher Stray has observed that " George Eliot's novels draw heavily on Greek literature ( only one of her books can be printed correctly without the use of a Greek typeface ), and her themes are often influenced by Greek tragedy ".
Her writing often makes use of alien cultures to examine structural characteristics of human culture and society and their impact on the individual.
The incumbent governor general and his or her spouse are also the only people in Canada, other than serving Canadian ambassadors and high commissioners, entitled to the use the style His or Her Excellency and the governor general is granted the additional honorific of The Right Honourable for their time in office and for life afterwards.
Her sister-in-law ( born The Lady Alice Montagu Douglas Scott ) was given special dispensation by HM The Queen to use a similar style when she was widowed (" HRH Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester ") despite not being a princess by birth, rather than the more usual widow's style, " HRH The Dowager Duchess of Gloucester ".
She was now officially Queen Mother, though she did not use that title and was instead known as Her Majesty Queen Mary.
Her memory is preserved now in the name of the Fawcett Society, and in Millicent Fawcett Hall, constructed in 1929 in Westminster as a place that women could use to debate and discuss the issues that affected them.
Her methods are unconventional by kingdom standards, for example forgoing the use of leeches and instead using alcohol to " the ill humours which can infect a wound ," but are more often than not successful.
Her use of repetition is ascribed to her search for descriptions of the " bottom nature " of her characters, such as in The Making of Americans where the narrator is described through the repetition of narrative phrases such as " As I was saying " and " There will be now a history of her.
) Act 1993 and the consolidating Merchant Shipping Act 1995 which, in Section 4, Subsection 1, prohibits the use of any distinctive national colours or those used or resembling flags or pendants on Her Majesty's Ships, " except the Red Ensign, the Union flag ( commonly known as the Union Jack ) with a white border ", and some other exceptions permitted elsewhere in the Acts.
Her efforts to promote use of a new honorific were at first ignored.
Most in the household, including the servants, generally called the Grand Duchess by her first name and patronym, Anastasia Nikolaevna, and did not use her title or " Her Imperial Highness.
Her rites allowed women the use of strong wine and blood-sacrifice, things otherwise forbidden them by Roman tradition.
Her close association with the Valley of the Kings prevented her becoming anything more than a local deity, and when the valley ceased being in use, so she also ceased being worshipped.
Her lawyers argue that the church systematically seeks to make money through mental pressure and use scientifically dubious cures.
Her use of body-sculpting undergarments, nonsurgical temporary facelifts, expert makeup and wigs, combined with careful stage lighting helped to preserve Dietrich's glamorous image as she grew older.
Her use of foreign settings and androgynous themes made The Rose of Versailles and Orpheus no Mado " enormous successes ".
The first movie to use music made with a ( Moog ) synthesizer was the James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service in 1969.
* His / Her Notability ( Seine Spektabilität ; Professors have the privilege to use the Latin Spectabilis )-dean of a faculty
Like Danzig, this album was issued a Parental Advisory label despite the only instances of profanity being mild and infrequent ( in this case, one use of the word " bastard " in " Long Way Back From Hell " and " Pain in the World ", and one use of the word " bitch " in " Her Black Wings ").
Chiaroscuro modelling is now taken for granted, but had some opponents ; the English portrait miniaturist Nicholas Hilliard cautioned in his treatise on painting against all but the minimal use we see in his works, reflecting the views of his patron Queen Elizabeth I of England :" seeing that best to show oneself needeth no shadow of place but rather the open light ... Her Majesty .. chose her place to sit for that purpose in the open alley of a goodly garden, where no tree was near, nor any shadow at all ..."
Naval prefixes came into use as abbreviations for longer titles, such as " His / Her Majesty's Ship " in the Royal Navy, abbreviated " H. M. S.
Her insight into the minds of cattle has taught her to value the changes in details to which animals are particularly sensitive, and to use her visualization skills to design thoughtful and humane animal-handling equipment.
Her sculptures use materials such as glass, paper, metal and leather.

Her and medieval
Her role in his conversion is not considered now to be as important as it is often represented in medieval chronicles.
Her position as the first woman to rule Georgia in her own right was emphasized by the title mep ' e (" king "), commonly afforded to Tamar in the medieval Georgian sources.
The survival of many of her household records has been a boon to medieval scholars, particularly those focusing on medieval women ; a study of Elizabeth by Frances Underhill, For Her Good Estate: The Life of Elizabeth de Burgh, is largely based upon these records.
" Her verses were as simple and moving as ancient ballads ; her drawings were as genuine in their medieval spirit as much more highly finished and competent works of Pre-Raphaelite art ," wrote critic William Gaunt in The Pre-Raphaelite Dream.
Dudley won the " Best Original Musical or Comedy Score " Oscar for her music ; The Gathering ( 2002 ) a Anthony Horowitz thriller directed by Brian Gilbert and starring Christina Ricci ; The Grotesque ( 1997 ) released in the US as Gentlemen Don't Eat Poets a British film starring Alan Bates, Theresa Russell and Sting ; Hollow Reed ( 1996 ) a drama directed by Angela Pope and set in Bath ; Knight Moves ( 1992 ) American thriller directed by Carl Schenkel and starring Christopher Lambert ; Lucky Break ( 2001 ) a British feelgood comedy starring James Nesbitt and based around a prison escape ; The Miracle Maker ( 2000 ) an animated feature film made for TV by BBC Wales with Russian model makers ; Monkeybone ( 2001 ) an American film combining live-action and stop-motion animation starring Brendan Fraser and Bridget Fonda ; Perfect Creature ( 2007 ) a New Zealand made horror / thriller film starring Leo Gregory ; Pushing Tin ( 1999 ) a comedy-drama film directed by Mike Newell based around air traffic controllers in New York ; The Pope Must Die ( 1991 ) a comedy film starring Robbie Coltrane the score was co-written with Jeff Beck ; Silence Like Glass ( Zwei Frauen ) ( 1989 ) German made but set in a cancer ward at a hospital in America ; Tristan & Isolde ( 2006 ) a Ridley Scott romantic drama based on the medieval romantic legend of Tristan and Iseult and starring James Franco and Sophia Myles ; The Walker ( 2007 ) a drama written and directed by Paul Schrader set in Washington, D. C .; Her TV music includes scores for all episodes of Jeeves and Wooster with Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie ; Lynda La Plante's Above Suspicion ; Kavanagh QC with John Thaw and The Tenth Kingdom an American epic fantasy TV miniseries written by Simon Moore.
Her songs take form in fairytale poetry, as if she were some medieval storybook princess, held captive against her will in a Dragon's Lair.
Her often aggressive acquisition of lands was an unusual degree of economic activity for any medieval noblewoman, let alone a queen: between 1274 and 1290 she acquired estates worth above £ 2500 yearly.
Her Galazon series comprise a Ruritanian romance series with magic: A College of Magics ( 1994 ) and its semi-sequel A Scholar of Magics ( 2004 ), as well as When the King Comes Home ( 2000 ), a medieval prequel.
Her son Toirdelbach Ua Conchobair was one of the greatest kings of medieval Ireland.
Her letter to Bibolo Semproni has one of the few medieval references to the 1st century BC woman poet, Cornificia.
Her music often draws on sources from medieval history, as well as the traditional stories and music of her native Scotland.

Her and Italian
Her fiance, who is with a publishing firm, translates many books from English into Italian.
Her mother was born Countess Maria-Luisa Yvonne Radha de Wendt de Kerlor, better known as Gogo Schiaparelli, a socialite of Italian, Swiss, French, and Egyptian ancestry.
Her early and later allegorical and didactic treatises reflect both autobiographical information about her life and views and also her own individualized and humanist approach to the scholastic learned tradition of mythology, legend, and history she inherited from clerical scholars and to the genres and courtly or scholastic subjects of contemporary French and Italian poets she admired.
Her father, Edward Sherwood Mead, was a professor of finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and her mother, Emily ( Fogg ) Mead, was a sociologist who studied Italian immigrants.
Her debut at Teatro alla Scala took place in 1842 as " Neocle " in the Italian version of Le siège de Corinthe, which was followed by roles in operas by Marliani, Donizetti ( as " Maffio Orsini "), Salvi and Pacini.
Her first story, Atlanta Girl Sees Italian Revolution, by Margaret Mitchell Upshaw, appeared on December 31, 1922.
It was first performed in England on 24 May 1856 in Italian at Her Majesty's Theatre in London, where it was considered morally questionable, and " the heads of the Church did their best to put an injunction upon performance ; the Queen refrained from visiting the theatre during the performances, though the music, words and all, were not unheard at the palace ".
Her mother's maternal grandfather was an Italian immigrant ; her mother's other ancestry is Scottish, Irish, and a small amount of Greek.
Her tenure as regent of the Italian lands of the Holy Roman Empire probably lasted from 1117 to 1119, whereupon she rejoined her husband in Lotharingia.
Her father was of Italian descent and her mother was Jewish.
Later Italian Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen.
Her most successful term was when Philip was away touring his Italian domains for nine months in 1702.
Her talent in composition and translation is evidenced in her fine translations of the works of poets writing in French, English, Italian, Armenian, and Korean.
Her name references the motor scooter Vespa, which is Italian for " wasp.
Her style of designing garden rooms, defined outdoor spaces which transition distinctly from one to another, was inspired by studying Italian Renaissance gardens and villas in her travels.
Her design was inspired by her European ventures, especially from the Italian Renaissance gardens, and consisted of a establishing a sophisticated relationship between the architectural and natural environments, with formal terraced gardens stepping a down steep slope and transitioning to a more naturalistic aesthetic approaching the creek.
Her story was also put to the stage in the verse tragedy Canace ( 1588 ), by Italian playwright Sperone Speroni.
Her father was of German and Swiss descent and her mother is Italian American ( from Sicily ).
Her performances often featured elaborate show-dance choreography, and she made many appearances on French and Italian TV.
Her annual world tours and Italian TV shows, however, continued to include her best of the late sixties.
He was also a noted conductor, directing Italian Opera at Her Majesty's Theatre for seven years, among other conducting posts.
From 1846 to 1852 Balfe was appointed musical director and principal conductor for the Italian Opera at Her Majesty's Theatre.
Her following album " Lo Que Son Las Cosas " ( What A Way For Things To Be ) in 1991 included a Spanish version of a song made famous by Italian singer Eros Ramazzotti.
His tenure of the Foreign Office was noteworthy for the famous dispatch in which he defended Italian independence: " Her Majesty's Government will turn their eyes rather to the gratifying prospect of a people building up the edifice of their liberties, and consolidating the work of their independence, amid the sympathies and good wishes of Europe " ( 27 October 1860 ).
Her poems have been translated into Italian, Japanese and Russian.

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