Bertha Szold was more like Meg, the eldest March girl, who `` learned that a woman's happiest kingdom is home, her highest honor the art of ruling it, not as a queen, but a wise wife and mother ''.

Her sympathetic renderings of American ruling class made her one of the most successful portrait painters of her era.

Keitai's mother, Furihime, was from a local ruling family in Koshi ( Echizen province ), so his mother brought him to her home after his father's death.

In some monarchies there may be liberty for the incumbent, or some body convening after his or her demise, to choose from eligible members of the ruling house, often limited to legitimate descendants of the dynasty's founder.

After James II was deposed in 1688 and replaced by his daughter Mary II, ruling jointly with her husband and first cousin ( James's nephew ) William III, the Stuarts lived in exile, occasionally attempting to regain the throne.

In 1836 Marx became engaged to Jenny von Westphalen, a beautiful baroness of the Prussian ruling class —" the most desirable young woman in Trier " — who broke off her engagement with a young aristocratic second lieutenant to be with him.

Elena Kagan, who had presented the government's case as Solicitor General of the U. S. and who was nominated to succeed Justice Stevens, supported Kennedy's ruling in her arguments that pointed out that the ruling spelled out for prosecutors and defendants just how the right against self-incrimination applies in such cases.

Mary was restored to the throne, with Elizabeth ruling in her name.

Of the four deities of Empedocles's elements, it is the name of Persephone alone that is taboo — Nestis is a euphemistic cult title — for she was also the terrible Queen of the Dead, whose name was not safe to speak aloud, who was euphemistically named simply as Kore or " the Maiden ", a vestige of her archaic role as the deity ruling the underworld.

The winner of the Crown Tournament and his / her Consort are styled " Crown Prince and Princess " and serve an advisory period ( three to six months, depending upon the scheduling of the Crown Tournament ) under the current King and Queen prior to acceding to the throne and ruling in their turn.

Elizabeth I, who was staying at Hatfield House at the time of her accession, rode to London to the cheers of both the ruling class and the common people.

She will lead the women of a village when her family collective is the ruling one.

This left Flanders in the grip of a succession crisis ; Baldwin VI's widow was ruling for her two young sons, but her rule was contested by Robert, Baldwin's brother.

* July 2 – Emperor Zhongzong of Tang had the remains of his mother and recently deceased ruling empress Wu Zetian, her son Li Xian, her grandson Li Chongrun, and granddaughter Li Xianhui all interred in at the same tomb complex as his father and Wu Zetian's husband Emperor Gaozong ( d. 683 ) outside Chang ' an known as the Qianling Mausoleum, located on Mount Liang.

She was China's first and only female emperor, ruling on her own accord.

Tamar was proclaimed heir apparent and co-ruler by her reigning father George III in 1178, but she faced significant opposition from the aristocracy upon her ascension to full ruling powers after George's death.

The Byzantine-derived expression of royal power was modified in various ways to bolster Tamar's unprecedented position as a woman ruling in her own right.

Bolesław Bierut, an NKVD agent, and a hard Stalinist served as first Secretary General of the ruling PUWP from 1948 to 1956, playing a leading role in the Sovietisation of Poland and the installation of her most repressive regime.

This in revenge for the hostile action of empress Galla Placidia ( see 427 ), ruling in behalf of her son Valentinian III.

The dynasty was interrupted briefly by the Second Zhou Dynasty ( October 8, 690 – March 3, 705 ) when Empress Wu Zetian seized the throne, becoming the only Chinese empress regnant, ruling in her own right.

She lay there, making no effort to get back on her feet.

He put her down on the couch, and going into the kitchen, saw that the boy had dropped into a chair beside the table.

Morgan filled the dipper from the water bucket on the shelf, went back into the front room, lifted the girl's head, and held the edge of the dipper to her mouth.

When he saw the expression in her eyes, he knew he couldn't send them on.

I just can't take any chances on getting her pregnant, and if we were sleeping together ''

He turned to Susan and kissed her on the cheek.

He grabbed her by the shoulders and went down on one knee, taking her weight so that some of the wind was driven out of him.

He got up slowly, and she was already on her feet, and he stood facing her.

If she sensed any unusual preoccupation on the part of her mother, she did not comment upon it.

Here, she dropped the keys on a small table beside the door and went upstairs to her bedroom.

In her grim pursuit of tranquillity, Pamela focused her thoughts on her husband.

In spite of her attempt to preserve her balance, she fell, bruising her arm on a naked stone.

She began it deliberately, so that none of her words would be lost on him.

Then, with a glory that almost wiped out the deep, downward sags in her careworn face, Matilda leaned over the wheel and shouted to Hez, who was stumbling along in the heat and the dust on the opposite side of the wagon `` Pa!!

Rod gave her a warm pat on the shoulder before he replied.

With Rod on his way and Matilda visiting with Mrs. Jackson while they searched out familiar names on the face of the cliff, Harmony settled on the edge of the grub box, to ease the pressure of her swollen body on her bone-weary legs, and worried about all that might have happened to Sally.

At last her lawyer, Arthur D. Cloud, gave up the case because she turned down three successive settlements he arranged.

The first thing to do is get her some money by a temporary but definite adjustment pending a final disposition of the case.

In any case, Miss Millay's sweet-throated bitterness, her variations on the theme that the world was not only well lost for love but even well lost for lost love, her constant and wonderfully tragic posture, so unlike that of Fitzgerald since it required no scenery or props, drew from the me that I was when I fell upon her verses an overwhelming yea.

But if she were just having a normal case of pre-nuptial jitters such a question might frighten her out of a really good marriage.

She and her husband had formerly lived in New York, where she had many friends, but Mr. Flannagan thought the country would be safer in case of war.

By making inroads in the name of law enforcement into the protection which Congress has afforded to the marriage relationship, the Court today continues in the path charted by the recent decision in Wyatt v. United States, 362 U.S. 525, where the Court held that, under the circumstances of that case, a wife could be compelled to testify against her husband over her objection.

In one extreme case, cited by a Pittsburgh psychologist, an office worker's wife refused to have sexual relations with her husband unless he bought her the luxuries she demanded.

Diane was needed as a material witness in the case and New York police searched three continents before they found her in their own back yard -- in a swank hotel, of course.

Within Erikson's schema, the adolescent's delinquent behavior -- in this case, her unwed motherhood -- reflects her `` identity diffusion '', or her inability to resolve these various identity crises positively.

The case histories provide some interesting illustrations of ideological diffusion, embodied in the unwed mother's inability to identify independently a given value system or behavior pattern,, and her subsequent disinclination to assume any individual responsibility for her sexual behavior.

The male grasps the female tightly with his forelimbs either behind her arms or in front of her back legs, or in the case of Epipedobates tricolor, around her neck.

J. J. Bachofen advocated that Athena was originally a maternal figure stable in her security and poise but was caught up and perverted by a patriarchal society ; this was especially the case in Athens.

A notorious murder scandal, the Overbury case, threw up two imperfect anagrams that were aided by typically loose spelling and were recorded by Simonds D ' Ewes: ' Francis Howard ' ( for Frances Carr, Countess of Somerset, her maiden name spelled in a variant ) became Car findes a whore, with the letters E hardly counted, and the victim Thomas Overbury, as ' Thomas Overburie ', was written as O!

The contemporary ecclesiastics recorded with wonder many instances of the Visigoths ' clemency: Christian churches saved from ravage ; protection granted to vast multitudes both of pagans and Christians who took refuge therein ; vessels of gold and silver which were found in a private dwelling, spared because they " belonged to St. Peter "; at least one case in which a beautiful Roman matron appealed, not in vain, to the better feelings of the Gothic soldier who attempted her dishonor.

According to the book Gender, Crime, and Punishment published by Yale University Press, " Under the Alford doctrine, a defendant does not admit guilt but admits that the state has sufficient evidence to find him or her guilty, should the case go to trial.

Justice is done when the most effective adversary is able to convince the judge or jury that his or her perspective on the case is the correct one.