Again, I at first misconstrued this disconcertingly intense communication, and I quickly cast through my mind to account for her being able to speak, with such utter conviction, of an opinion held by my father, now several years deceased.

Recently, for example, a paranoid woman's large-scale philosophizing, in the session, about the intrusive curiosity which has become, in her opinion, a deplorable characteristic of mid-twentieth-century human culture, developed itself, before the end of the session, into a suspicion that I was surreptitiously peeking at her partially exposed breast, as indeed I was.

The exoneration Pearson speaks of is not an exoneration, but Lizzie's expression of her opinion, as reported in the testimony of Assistant Marshal Fleet.

Blind people had, in her opinion, grown so accustomed to waiting on others as to be passive and ' whiney.

Despite opinion that such a voyage was impossible and his having retired, Slocum rebuilt a derelict sloop Spray and sailed her single-handed around the world.

Schneider proposed this, because, in her opinion, Irving could have passed the standard Daubert tests unless a court was given " a great deal of assistance from historians ".

Farr, already of the opinion that the London temple should be closed, wrote to Mathers expressing her wish to resign as his representative, though she was willing to carry on until a successor was found.

The Michigan Mental Health Code provides that a person " whose judgment is so impaired that he or she is unable to understand his or her need for treatment and whose continued behavior as the result of this mental illness can reasonably be expected, on the basis of competent clinical opinion, to result in significant physical harm to himself or herself or others " may be subjected to involuntary commitment, a provision paralleled in the laws of many other jurisdictions.

" Reynolds ' own sister, Frances, who lived with him as housekeeper, took her own negative opinion further still, thinking him " a gloomy tyrant ".

According to her, it was this desire to establish a single, unified will based on the stifling of opinion in favor of public passion that contributed to the excesses of the French Revolution.

Additionally, his condemnation of Blaesilla's hedonistic lifestyle in Rome had led her to adopt aescetic practices, but it affected her health and worsened her physical weakness to the point that she died just four months after starting to follow his instructions ; much of the Roman populace were outraged at Jerome for causing the premature death of such a lively young woman, and his insistence to Paula that Blaesilla should not be mourned, and complaints that her grief was excessive, were seen as heartless, polarising Roman opinion against him.

Though Nancy was a controversial First Lady, 56 percent of Americans had a favorable opinion of her when her husband left office on January 20, 1989, with 18 percent having an unfavorable opinion and the balance not giving an opinion.

* The Supreme Court of the Philippines, through a unanimous opinion penned in 2005 by Associate Justice Leonardo Quisumbing, quoted The Moving Finger when it ruled that the widow of defeated presidential candidate Fernando Poe Jr. could not substitute her late husband in his pending election protest against Philippine president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, thus leading to the dismissal of the protest.

Asked about her opinion of the FARC-EP as group, Rojas called it " a criminal organization ", condemning its kidnappings as " a total violation of human dignity " and saying some captive police and soldiers are constantly chained.

Jolene Blalock, who plays T ' Pol, voiced her negative opinion about bringing the two Next Generation actors to Enterprise.

The President helped her a lot by selecting some lovely colored dresses to get her started.

It was her job to stand at the foot of the stairs, and, just as the First Lady stepped off the last tread, Mama would straighten out her long train before she marched to the Blue Room to greet her guests with the President.

She is vacationing at the Kennedy summer home in Hyannis Port, Mass., and in his welcoming remarks, the President said he was representing her.

Even though it's not up to him / her to make laws ( only to promulgate them and make edicts ), the President is the leader of the winning party.

On 4 January 2008, Dr. Gail Dinter-Gottlieb decided to step down as President and Vice Chancellor of the University before her term expired.

After the 1963 assassination of President Kennedy, Mrs Kennedy remembered the eternal flame at the Arc de Triomphe and requested that an eternal flame be placed next to her husband's grave at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.

President Charles de Gaulle went to Washington to attend the state funeral, and witnessed Jacqueline Kennedy lighting the eternal flame that had been inspired by her visit to France.

The duo nicknamed her " Diarrhea " but once said she was cool after she asked President Clinton a pertinent question during a school assembly.

At the time of the SDP's creation, Owen and Rodgers were sitting Labour Members of Parliament ( MPs ); Jenkins had left Parliament in 1977 to serve as President of the European Commission, while Williams had lost her seat in the 1979 general election.

She also sketched President Teddy Roosevelt during her White House visits in 1902, during which " He sat for two hours, talking most of the time, reciting Kipling, and reading scraps of Browning.

The company partnered up with Drew because " she emulates the iconic image of CoverGirl with her fresh, natural beauty and energetic yet authentic spirit " said Esi Eggleston Bracey, Vice President and General Manager of CoverGirl Cosmetics North America.

The executive at the central level, is divided between the President, and a Prime Minister appointed by him / her from the party having the majority of seats in Parliament.

It currently houses a number of executive offices, including ones for the Vice President and his or her spouse.

In 2004 she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President George W. Bush in recognition of her distinguished service to the country.

President Bush recognized Miss Day's work on behalf of animals by saying, " It was a good day for our fellow creatures when she gave her good heart to the cause of animal welfare.

* 1979 – Convicted bank robber Patty Hearst is released from prison after her sentence is commuted by President Jimmy Carter.

According to legend, Dolley Madison was referred to as " First Lady " in 1849 at her funeral in a eulogy delivered by President Zachary Taylor.

On September 14, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom, one of the United States ' two highest civilian honors.

Christina Rau is a granddaughter of her husband's mentor, Gustav Heinemann, former President of Germany.

The election of his daughter Indira as Congress President in 1959 aroused criticism for alleged nepotism, although actually Nehru had disapproved of her election, partly because he considered it smacked of " dynastism "; he said, indeed it was " wholly undemocratic and an undesirable thing ", and refused her a position in his cabinet.

In her autobiography Thank Heaven she states that she became an American citizen — evidently based on her mother having been born in the United States — in time to vote for Barack Obama for president.

" The Politics of Fear ", a cartoon by Barry Blitt featured on the cover of the July 21, 2008 issue, depicts then presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama in the turban and salwar kameez typical of many Muslims, fist bumping with his wife, Michelle, portrayed with an Afro and wearing camouflage trousers with an AK-47 assault rifle slung over her back.

Sometimes, however, the Speaker will play a big role even when they belong to the same party as the President, such as when Speaker Nancy Pelosi played a role in continuing the push for health care reform during the presidency of fellow Democrat Barack Obama ; subsequently the Republicans targeted her in the 2010 midterm election.

Though James and Knowles were later seen at a red carpet event following the film's release embracing each other, James expressed her displeasure with Knowles at a Seattle concert in January 2009, a few days after Knowles sang her song, " At Last ", at the first inaugural ball for Barack Obama.

When Clinton's campaign ended, Angelou put her support behind Senator Barack Obama, who won the election and became the first African American president of the United States.

After arriving in Tokyo on her first foreign trip representing the newly elected President Barack Obama, she made her way to this shrine in advance of meetings with Japan's leaders to show her " respect toward history and the culture of Japan.

Gingrich has stated she will vote for Barack Obama for President of the United States in 2012, despite her half-brother running for the Republican nomination.

In 2008, the ATU endorsed Hillary Clinton in her bid for the Democratic Presidential nomination ; after she conceded defeat, the ATU endorsed Barack Obama in his successful bid for President.

Thalía gets President Barack Obama to dance with her while singing at the " In Performance at the White House: Fiesta Latina "

In July 2009, Collins announced her intention to vote for the confirmation of President Barack Obama's first U. S. Supreme Court nominee, U. S. Court of Appeals Judge Sonia Sotomayor, breaking from the opposition led by several conservative Republican senators.

Ms. Hefner said that the election of Barack Obama as the next President had inspired her to give more time to charitable work, and that the decision to step down was her own.

Following the 2008 elections, then President-elect Barack Obama rang Ros-Lehtinen to congratulate her on her re-election.

Thirty-five years after her death, Barack Obama, in his inauguration speech as 44th President of the United States on January 20, 2009, echoed lyrics by Fields when he said, " Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America ".

* On September 25, 2006, Oprah Winfrey made her first endorsement of Barack Obama for President of the United States on Larry King Live.

Hagan was helped by Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's aggressive push for North Carolina's 15 electoral votes and by 527 groups lobbying on her behalf.

On June 10, 2008, it was revealed that Edwards would be advising her husband's former rival, and eventual Democratic nominee, Barack Obama, on healthcare issues.

Kerry campaigned with her father for Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign.

She subsequently made clear her intention to vote for Barack Obama, and urged other young people to vote.