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She advances Rawdon's interests tirelessly, flirting with men such as General Tufto and the Marquis of Steyne in order to get him promoted.
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Fräulein Bürstner – A boarder in the same house as Josef K. She lets him kiss her one night, but then rebuffs his advances.
She wrote of the Americans, " The boy learns to make advances and rely upon the girl to repulse them whenever they are inappropriate to the state of feeling between the pair ", as contrasted to the British, where " the girl is reared to depend upon a slight barrier of chilliness ... which the boys learn to respect, and for the rest to rely upon the men to approach or advance, as warranted by the situation.
She awakened, he identified himself and offered her two choices: she could submit to his sexual advances and become his wife and future queen, or he would kill her and one of her slaves and place the bodies together, then claim he had caught her having adulterous sex ( see sexuality in ancient Rome for Roman attitudes toward sex ).
She spurned his advances, turning herself into a mare so that she could hide in a herd of horses ; he saw through the deception and became a stallion and captured her.
She was also known to wear heavy makeup around her eyes and carry a tambourine which she could use to fend off the amorous advances of Pantalone.
She advances through the labyrinth alone and overcomes a series of obstacles during her journey, including a Knights and Knaves logic puzzle, before eventually trapping herself in an oubliette.
She mentions she refused his advances at the time because he had presented himself as " a pure monk.
She discovers quickly that Martha and Lettie have switched places, but accepts Lettie as her apprentice anyway and encourages her to accept Howl's advances and become his pupil, though she eventually chooses Suliman instead.
She studied law and became a lawyer, but because she declined Trujillo's romantic advances, he ordered that while she would be issued a degree she was not to receive her practitioner's license.
She would appear as a lustful hag, and most men would refuse her advances, except for one man who accepted.
She and interests
She was a dedicated, supporting wife and mother who looked out for the interests of her children and the future of her family.
She continued to advance her trademark interests of education and literacy by establishing the semi-annual National Book Festival in 2001 and encouraged education on a worldwide scale.
She was deeply distrustful of Germans, and invariably opposed anything that favoured German expansion or interests.
She could not share his intellectual interests, and she confirmed the foolish contempt with which he regarded women.
Several other songs on the album, " Vanlose Stairway ", " She Gives Me Religion ", and the instrumental, " Scandinavia " show the presence of a new personal muse in his life: a Danish public relations agent, who would share Morrison's spiritual interests and serve as a steadying influence on him throughout most of the 1980s.
She looks down on almost all of Matt's hobbies and interests ( except for Buffy the Vampire Slayer ), even though she's an excellent gamer.
*" Inge Morath was, above all, a traveller ... er approach to a story was ' to let it grow ', without any apparent concern for narrative structure, trusting in her experience and interests to shape her work rather than in an editorial formula ... She unsentimentally made pictures that were guided by her relationship to a place.
She presided over the RIAA during the period of when the rise of the Internet notably conflicted with the established Recording Industry interests.
She combined her interests in dance, voodoo and subjective psychology in a series of surreal, perceptual, black and white short films.
She went on to write " We are a new government from diverse backgrounds, without links to former colonial interests.
She now has other interests that keep her mind from Jughead, including Archie Andrews and Dilton Doiley, to keep her company.
" She sees this as the only similarity, however, since Sartre's interests are not primarily epistemological or metaphysical and he is more indebted to Hegel than to Kant.
She also wanted her label to turn over the rights of her music, video work, and publishing interests, and destroy all of her recordings that were currently available to the label at the time of the lawsuit.
She also believes that public access to information under the Freedom of Information Act has been " excessively curtailed ", often in order to protect sectional interests, such as the performance of schools.
She has been shown to possess a number of tough, tomboyish character traits and interests ; she is skilled at karate and frequently enjoys practicing it with SpongeBob, she is shown to be an excellent bodybuilder, is a rodeo champion, and possesses extraordinary scientific skills and can construct complex inventions.
She was at first tempted by the financial security the proposal seemed to offer, but was convinced by her friends and advisers such as Edward J. Dent and Clive Carey that it was not in the interests of her regular audience.
She acted with great energy and zeal as governess to the daughters of the family, and was in 1781 appointed by the duke of Chartres to the responsible office of gouverneur of his sons, a bold step which led to the resignation of all the tutors as well as to much social scandal, though there is no reason to suppose that the intellectual interests of her pupils suffered on that account.
She returned to the southern United States in 1981, where she accepted the lifetime Reynolds Professorship of American Studies at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and she taught a variety of subjects that reflected her interests, including philosophy, ethics, theology, science, theater, and writing.
She left the following year with three Highers, but needed five to get into the Glasgow School of Art, where she believed her talents and interests could be developed.
She has focused on other interests such as sculpting and it was 1984 before she returned to American television screens with a part in Falcon Crest.
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