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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 lush
Paige was welcomed to the Broadway stage with a long standing ovation from the audience, and received largely positive reviews for her New York performance as Norma Desmond: " The lush sound and the sheer power of her voice are, to put it simply, incredible ", wrote one critic, whilst another said " Her voice has great range, remarkable clarity and emotional force ".
Her vocal coach, Sally Stevens, commended her dedication: " She was singing these songs in a very exposed way -- no strings or lush orchestrations to hide behind, just a piano.
Her early style, in particular, used " obscure polysyllables, formal syntax and lush imagery divided critics and daunted many readers ".
Her affinity for the number five co-mingled with the abbey gardens, and by extension the lush surrounding hillsides abounding with cistus, a five-petal rose.

Her and descriptions
Her personal site with CV and descriptions of other exhibits.
Her description of her home planet in The Sensorites ( 1964 ) matches the Tenth Doctor's much later descriptions of Gallifrey, and she is fully familiar with the history and landscape of Gallifrey's Time Lord society when she and the First Doctor are transported to " the Death Zone " in The Five Doctors.
Her books are widely admired for her artistic eye and vivid descriptions of place.
Her artist's eye is apparent in her later intense descriptions of landscapes.
Her memories of life at court provided rare descriptions of the home life of the Tsar and his family.
Her descriptions of farming practices and economics, and village vernacular are particularly detailed and accurate for this genre.
Her descriptions of the nights she spent with Elvis before their marriage suggest that the star was not overtly sexual towards her.
Among his better novels are Her Two Millions ( 1897 ) because of its autobiographical element and accurate descriptions of how a Swiss newspaper is run ( Westall worked as an editor of Swiss Times ); and Birch Dene ( 1889 ) which contains striking portraits of London and is evocative of the Industrial Revolution.
Her work also gives the first descriptions of the tribikos and kerotakis.
Her work stands out for its descriptions of her travels and pilgrimages and is unique in the literature of the period, as well as one of the first in the genre of travel writing.
Her admission piece, a small miniature, has since disappeared, and no descriptions or records of its existence have survived to this day.
Her blog contained frank descriptions of her sexual encounters with various men, which is believed to be a first for China.
* Causative_of and Inchoative_of: There is a fairly systematic relationship between stative descriptions ( e. g. the < tt > Position_on_a_scale </ tt > frame, " She had a high salary ") and causative descriptions (< tt > Cause_change_of_scalar_position </ tt >, " She raised his salary ") or inchoative descriptions (< tt > Change_position_on_a_scale </ tt >, e. g. " Her salary increased ").
Her works are known for their impressionistic, lyrical descriptions of nature and subtle psychological portrayals ...
Her narcissistic self descriptions provoked controversy and the question, " Is she funny simply because she doesn't know she is?
Her husband, whom she had met in Bulgaria, assisted her with related geographical descriptions and diction.

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