In 1997 Hill published her autobiography, Speaking Truth to Power, in which she chronicled her role in the Clarence Thomas confirmation controversy and wrote that creating a better society had been a motivating force in her life.

However, the religious vocabulary ( words like baptism, sermon, prayer, church, apostle, bishop or confirmation ) were adopted from the Czech language and had to come from Dobrawa's entourage and the church elements that arrived with her.

" There are also a few duties which must be specifically performed by, or bills that require assent by, the Queen ; these include applying the royal sign-manual and Great Seal of Canada to the appointment papers of governors general, the issuance of Letters Patent, the confirmation of awards of Canadian honours, the approval of any change in her Canadian title, and the creation of new Senate seats.

During her Senate confirmation hearings, Sonia Sotomayor revealed that she first became interested in the law while watching Perry Mason on television with her mother.

In exchange for being freed, and for his confirmation as Royal Governor, he agreed to relinquish her and to bring to Chile his wife, Marina Ortíz de Gaete, who only arrived after Valdivia's death in 1554.

He throws her in prison, over the protests of his nobles, and sends to the Oracle of Delphi for what he is sure will be confirmation of his suspicions.

They belonged to the East Midwood Jewish Center, where she took her religious confirmation seriously.

Only one witness testified against Ginsburg at her confirmation hearings, and the hearings lasted only four days.

When Annie is delayed at an audition and misses Stephanie's confirmation, the girl tells her friends LouLou is her mother.

Even the overturning of her past scandalous life was seen by Sabbatai's followers as additional confirmation of his messiahship, following the biblical story of the prophet Hosea, who had also been commanded to take a " wife of whoredom " as the first symbolic act of his calling.

She adopted the name " Grace " for her confirmation name.

Peggy Noonan had also received email confirmation of the quote from Navarro-Valls before writing her December 17 column.

Budde was elected by the diocese of Washington in June 2011, to replace then-Bishop John Bryson Chane ; upon her confirmation in November 2011, she became the 9th bishop of the diocese, and the first woman to fill the role.

A girl is blessed by the priest during her confirmation in the Norwegian state church.

In social life, a more malevolent femme fatale tends to torture her lover in an asymmetrical relationship, denying confirmation of her affection.

In 1993, during the bitter confirmation battle over Roberta Achtenberg, a lesbian, as Assistant Secretary for the Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity in the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Pell stated that his daughter was a lesbian, and that he hoped that it would not be a barrier to federal employment for her ; Achtenberg became the first openly gay person to be confirmed by the U. S. Senate.

Adriana, concerned that her husband's eye is straying, takes this news as confirmation of her suspicions.

Upon confirmation regarding the completion of the accidental attack on Moscow, the President realizes the severity of the situation and seeks a resolution to the matter that will avoid reprisal from the Russians and, ultimately, an all-out nuclear holocaust.

The Speaker is elected by the majority party caucus followed by confirmation of the full House through the passage of a House resolution.

Failure to receive confirmation within a reasonable amount of time would be grounds for the BAM solution to raise an alarm that would set in motion manual intervention to investigate the cause of the delay and to push the problem toward resolution before it becomes costly.

Just as thousands that day in Portugal had seen the sun dancing in the sky, he had seen the same thing later in his own garden, and she turned to Agnese for confirmation.

` Abdu ' l-Bahá, the son of the founder of the religion, said that she was " the channel of confirmation " to Jesus ' disciples, a " heroine " who " re-established the faith of the apostles " and was " a light of nearness in his kingdom.

She was arrested on the first day of US Senate hearings for the confirmation to the Supreme Court of the United States of Sonia Sotomayor after she and another protester started yelling during the opening statement of Senator Al Franken ( D-Minn .).

He or she makes all appointments ( most are subject to Council confirmation ), and is an “ ex officio ” member of all Council Committees.

At confirmation, she took the name Michaela.

During Roberts ' confirmation hearings, Senators Joe Biden ( Delaware ), Orrin Hatch ( Utah ), and Roberts himself brought up Ginsburg's hearings several times as they argued over what questions she answered and what Roberts was expected to answer.

In September 2010 Landrieu announced she would hold up OMB director Jacob Lew ’ s confirmation until the administration lifted or eased a federal freeze on deepwater oil-and-gas drilling.

Landrieu voted for the confirmation of Chief Justice John Roberts in 2005, but in 2006, she opposed Samuel Alito, though she did vote in favor of cloture to send the nomination to an up-or-down vote.

Always an inquisitive and rebellious young woman, she concluded that she could not agree with the pledge, and would not participate in the confirmation ceremony.

Notwithstanding her appointment, confirmation and acceptance, she served as Speaker Pro Tempore on June 26, 2009, when the House narrowly passed ( 219-212 ) a cap-and-trade global warming bill.

In the event that the gender and date of birth of the applicant matches any sexual offence record in the system, he / she is required to submit fingerprints to the RCMP for a physical confirmation.

Assuming that the landowner has correctly identified the host tree ( s ) and symptom ( s ), has submitted a sample to a local authority to send to an approved laboratory for testing, and has received confirmation that the tree ( s ) are indeed infected with P. ramorum — or, alternatively, assuming that the landowner knows that P. ramorum-infected trees are nearby and wants to protect the resources on his or her property — he or she can attempt control by cultural ( individual-tree ), chemical, or silvicultural ( stand-level ) means.

Knowing she couldn't go back herself, Sydney called her SD-6 partner Marcus Dixon to get the confirmation and tells Dixon the true nature of SD-6.

He was later cleared when the DND received confirmation from Megeney's mother that she had consented to the publication of the article.

When they attempt a fling that night, she interprets George's inadequacy in bed as confirmation of her insecurities despite her better-than-average looks and easygoing disposition.

Finally, she received confirmation that her husband had died on Beechy Island in July 1847.

The first substantive confirmation that the duo would reconvene to complete work on their fourth studio album came from Sandoval herself in a July 2009 interview with Rolling Stone magazine, where she was quoted as saying, " It's true we're still together.

The marriage likely took place in 1405, but there is no clear confirmation until 1408, when she was crowned queen of Hungary.

He took Magellan ’ s discovery of Tierra del Fuego in 1520 as further confirmation of its existence, and on his globes of 1523 and 1533 he described it as (“ Terra Australis, recently discovered but not yet fully known ”).

Sanctions critics took Albright's failure to reframe the question as confirmation of the statistic.

On May 25, 1939, Merton received Confirmation at Corpus Christi, and took the confirmation name James.

It was quickly noted that most of the worst-performing schools had met their goals, which the Department of Education took as confirmation of the soundness of their policies.

Born Michael Denzil Portillo in Bushey, Hertfordshire, England, Portillo took the name Xavier at confirmation.

In April 2005, as the Senate confirmation hearings for the National Intelligence post took place, hundreds of documents were released by the State Department in response to a FOIA request by The Washington Post.

Such cases are not considered strong enough to fully establish a new theory, however, and in the case of quantum mechanics, it took the confirmation of the theory through new predictions for the theory to gain full acceptance.

England was nominated as Deputy Secretary of Defense on May 13, 2005 and immediately took up the role in an acting capacity while awaiting his confirmation.

Following Senate confirmation, Celebrezze took the oath of office on September 1, 1965, for the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

In an interview aired on TV2 during the 2006 parliamentary election campaign, Gyurcsány said that as a teenager, he " took part in confirmation for about two years " and even considered becoming a priest.

Since confirmation can only be taken once, some regarded this claim as a giveaway that he was not telling the truth, while others such as Catholic bishop Endre Gyulai supposed he meant he took part in preparations for a confirmation.

Unlike Hubert de Burgh, who lost his offices when Henry III attained his majority and took control of the government, Neville remained chancellor with only slight disagreements until 1238, although a confirmation of the lifetime nature of his tenure was made in 1232.

He took the oath of office on March 4, 1992 after confirmation by the Senate, serving on the Court until his death.

He took the oath of office on July 15, 1995, after confirmation by unanimity in the Senate of Puerto Rico.

He took the oath of office on July 13, 2000 after confirmation by the Senate.

Carswell said that he ran for the Senate because he wanted to " confront the liberals who shot me down " but denied that Kirk took advantage of the failed confirmation to thwart Cramer.

Beresford took a high hand in his dealings with Gomes Freire de Andrade ( 1817 ) and, put into a difficult situation, he returned to Brazil, obtaining from John VI the confirmation of the powers he had already attained, which he desired to see amplified.

He waited as long as he felt he could for confirmation of his fighter escort, but eventually took off without it.

The abbey took the precaution of getting Stephen's approval for this major gift-a strategy followed also at Lilleshall during the anarchy-as well as confirmation from Henry of Anjou Ranulf de Gernon, 4th Earl of Chester, donated fishing rights in the Dee.

Senate Democrats, claiming Estrada was a conservative ideologue with no experience as a judge, and unable to block his nomination in the Senate Judiciary Committee after the Republican Party took control of the Senate in 2002, used a filibuster to prevent his nomination from being given a final confirmation vote by the full Senate on the Senate floor.