She challenges him to prove that he believes she is human — by making love to her.

She then overcomes the four challenges of the We before entering the final temple where the Heart of the We is kept.

She sleeps with Septimus, and the repeatedly cuckolded Mr. Chater challenges him to a duel.

She was asked to stay in Poland and join the Polish national athletic team ; she also continued to run in various American challenges and games.

She tells her father she still loves Morris and challenges him to change his will if he's afraid of how she will spend his money after he dies.

She then challenges Ulala and Noize to a drum battle.

She attempts to attract a fairy in the hope that they will grant her wish, but when she succeeds in drawing the Amadan to her, she accidentally challenges him to a contest to see who is the greatest fool.

She has quite a fiery temper, and aggressively challenges other girls to beauty contests.

She entraps him but he still challenges her ethics, prompting her to reveal she has been coming to Earth for centuries to harvest her precious chemicals.

One of the last arguments in her document is directed to men who still see women as lesser beings: “ the foolproof way to evaluate the soul of women is to join them to all the activities of man, if man persists against this, let him share his fortune with woman by the wisdom of the laws .” She challenges men that, if they wish, they may evaluate scientifically the consequences of joining man and woman in equal political rights.

She described the ' postwar challenges ,' saying ' there is no history of democratic government in Iraq ,' that its ' economy and infrastructure is in ruins after years of war and sanctions ' and that rebuilding would take ' a great deal of money.

' She is challenged by the arrival of Mark, an ill gay man who reminds Gayle of her dead, gay son, and the movie chronicles the challenges of the two as they learn to accept each other as they are.

She gave her last public speech, on May 25, 2011, at the Canadian Club of Ottawa, entitled Serving Parliament Through a Decade of Change, where she warned the government faces long-term fiscal pressures that will mean " very hard choices " between raising taxes or cutting programs and encouraged the government to publicize its long-term fiscal projections because " without them, we cannot begin to understand the scale and complexity of our financial challenges and the implication of policy choices .".

She has been seen to have a thirst to prove herself, for example, her introductory strip in which she challenges Dennis the Menace to a fight.

She led the colony for nearly 25 years, against a background of two world wars, the Great Depression and other challenges.

In her book, Information Ecologies Nardi passionately argues that “ Human expertise, judgment and creativity can be supported, but not replaced by computer-based tools .” She argues that we can not, either with technophilia or technophobia, view technological change as “ inevitable .” Rather, she challenges us to be critical users of technology who actively engage in conversation on the social impacts of technology.

She challenges Brooklyn to a " Battle Of The Divas " at Madison Square Garden.

She beat off challenges from the other semifinalists: Russia, Ireland, South Africa, India, Brazil, Colombia, USA, Puerto Rico and eventual first runner-up Veruska Ramírez of Venezuela, who would prove to be her main competitor.

She can be very over-emotional and attention-seeking and is always telling dramatic stories about herself which seem unlikely, although when Sally challenges her about her claim to have been trapped in a photo booth for three hours Annie is easily able to provide photographic evidence.

Astell argues that education will help women to make better matrimonial choices and meet the challenges of the married state: " She has need of a strong Reason, of a truly Christian and well-temper'd Spirit, of all the Assistance the best Education can give her, and ought to have some good assurance of her own Firmness and Vertue, who ventures on such a Trial ".

She then challenges Joey Wheeler to a duel, during which she reveals her true intentions for winning the contest.

She challenges Joey to a duel, claiming him to be the reason why she can never achieve greatness.

She then challenges Joey to a duel.

She takes this idea of identity and challenges it with this story.

She is the owner of Kate's Lazy Desert in Landers, California, and Kate's Lazy Meadow in Mount Tremper, New York, a rustic modern lodging in New York's Catskill Mountains near Woodstock.

She later returns and starts a romance with Kate's father.

She has several telephone conversations with her therapy-damaged friend Luce in California, who provides a cynical, suspicious, foul-mouthed counterpoint to Kate's goodheartedness.

She has starred in several Lifetime movies including The Perfect Nanny in 2000, The Perfect Husband, Kate's Secret, The Fight for Jesse, and various others.

She liked this taste of authority and independence, and, with darkness, was not likely to give it up.

She was also an authority on the traditional Lakeland crafts, period furniture and stonework.

She attempted to reconcile with him by submitting to his authority as far as " God and my conscience " permitted, but she was eventually bullied into signing a document agreeing to all of Henry's demands.

She demonstrated that an early Christian writing portrays authority as being represented in Mary Magdalene or in the church community structure.

She explored the commercial potential of Russian, African, and Baltic markets, revised the customs system, worked to counter the currency debasements of her predecessors, amalgamated several revenue courts, and strengthened the governing authority of the middling and larger towns.

She never let anyone challenge her authority as queen, even though many people, who felt she was weak and should be married, tried to do so.

She accused him of inciting a rebellion against her mother and of writing a book against her own authority.

She wrote to her daughter Elisabeth: " My principal aim is to have the honour of God before my eyes in all things and to preserve my authority, not for myself, but for the conservation of this kingdom and for the good of all your brothers ".

She asks that her father be given sovereignty over Britain, thus formalising the transfer of authority from Rome back to the Britons themselves.

She suggests the mutual antagonism came about two years later in 1455 in the wake of the First Battle of St. Albans, when Margaret perceived him as a challenge to the king's authority.

She resigned her post at the ITA in 1956 in protest at the government's refusal to come up with funding which it had promised to the authority in the 1954 Television Act.

She had asked her local authority for a rates reduction, but was told by a council officer to let out the rooms of her house.

She even exiles Moray to strengthen her own authority.

She confirms Dara's authority, and says that Oberon is about to repair the Pattern.

She was known for speaking in perfect, precise paragraphs, and was respected for her dedication and knowledge of her subjects ; even her critics admitted her authority on the Everglades.

Jeff Klinkenberg, a reporter for the St. Petersburg Times who interviewed and wrote several stories about Douglas, wrote of her, " She had a tongue like a switchblade and the moral authority to embarrass bureaucrats and politicians and make things happen.

She accordingly agreed to recognise his claims to the chiefship, thus throwing over Brian O ' Neill, son of the murdered Matthew, baron of Dungannon, if Shane would submit to her authority and that of her deputy.

She then took personal charge of the imperial family, directing its affairs with such authority that she became known in society at large as the emperor ’ s guardian .” Immediately when Pulcheria took authority over the imperial palace, the palace took on a much more monastic tone compared to that of her mother ’ s palace.

She is often annoyed at her sister and is easily upset, yet frequently the two girls team-up against their parents ' authority or at the expenses of their younger rascal brother.

She challenged the authority of the ministers, exposing the subordination of women in the culture of colonial Massachusetts.

In the figure of She, the novel notably explored themes of female authority and feminine behaviour.

Haggard constantly emphasises this anxiety over female authority in She, so that even the rationally minded and misogynistic Holly, who has put his " heart away from such vanity as woman's loveliness ", ultimately falls upon his knees and worships Ayesha " as never woman was worshipped ".

Similarly, Sarah Gilbert sees the theme of feminine sexuality and authority realised in Ayesha as critical to the novel's success: " Unlike the women earlier Victorian writers had idealised or excoriated, She was neither an angel nor a monster.

She also has a Look ( always capitalised ) which can be rather disconcerting, even to those in authority, such as her grandfather and the headmistress of the school in which she teaches.