She had a dispute over land with Henry VIII in 1518 ; he awarded the contested lands to the Duchy of Somerset, which had been held by his Beaufort grandfather — and were now in the possession of the Crown.

She defeated Novotná and Graf to reach the final in Key Biscayne, where she defeated Serena in three sets in the first final on the WTA Tour to be contested by two sisters.

She played Serena in the final, which was the first Grand Slam singles final contested by two sisters during the open era.

She contested the 2011 general election, but was defeated on the poll.

She unsuccessfully contested the Strathkelvin and Bearsden constituency at the 1983 Election.

She unsuccessfully contested the seat of East Melville at the 1983 election against sitting Liberal Party member Antony Trethowan, but was more successful in 1986 when she won the seat of Subiaco following the retirement of long-serving Liberal-turned-independent Dr Tom Dadour.

She contested her first Parliamentary elections in 1984, but lost.

She contested East Fife in October 1974.

She contested the Conservative held seat of Mid Dorset and Poole North at the 2001 General Election.

She contested Ochil and South Perthshire for a second time at the 2010 election, failing again to take it from Gordon Banks, this time on an increased ( 4 %) swing away from the SNP to Labour.

She contested the parliamentary seat of Cheadle at the 1987 General Election she finished in third place some 25, 000 votes behind the sitting Conservative MP Stephen Day.

She unsuccessfully contested the Crosby seat at the 1992 general election where she was defeated by the sitting Conservative MP Malcolm Thornton by 14, 806 votes.

She unsuccessfully contested the Darwen constituency at the 1979 general election where she was defeated by the sitting veteran Conservative MP Charles Fletcher-Cooke by 13, 026 votes.

She unsuccessfully contested Cornwall South East at the 1992 General Election where she finished in third place some 25, 029 votes behind the sitting Conservative MP Robert Hicks.

She also contested the European Parliament elections in 1994 when she was defeated at Devon East and Plymouth.

She unsuccessfully contested the 1992 general election in Islwyn against the then leader of the Labour Party, Neil Kinnock, and the 1997 general election in Montgomeryshire.

She contested the 2005 election under her married name, despite having been divorced for two years, so as not to confuse the voters.

She contested Lewisham East at the 1992 general election, a Conservative seat with a majority of 4, 846 in the 1987 general election, taking it for Labour with a majority of 1, 095, and increased the majority to 12, 127 in the 1997 general election.

She unsuccessfully contested Caernarfon in 1983 and Conwy in 1987 and 1992.

She unsuccessfully contested the Barking constituency at the 1979 general election.

She contested her seat in the 2001 general election, but lost to the Conservative candidate Patrick Mercer.

She unsuccessfully contested East Ham at the 1997 general election, finishing second behind Stephen Timms.

She contested the Wolverhampton South West constituency in the February 1974 election.

She contested the constituency again at the February 1982 general election, but saw her vote drop and once again failed to be elected.

She could easily understand why the two men had been startled to find a strange girl in the back seat of their car ( she had figured that out ), but she couldn't understand their subsequent actions.

She was ' hiding ' on the floor of the back seat, the soft curves of her back and hips -- rousing lines.

She puffed on the cigarette slowly, sitting slumped against the back seat ; ;

She sat on a tripod seat over an opening in the earth.

She then moved to her seat but driver James F. Blake told her to follow city rules and enter the bus again from the back door.

She paid her fare and sat in an empty seat in the first row of back seats reserved for blacks in the " colored " section.

She gave the staff the seat numbers and they pulled up the ticket and credit card information of the hijackers, identifying Mohamed Atta.

She did not take her seat, along with the other Sinn Féin TDs members.

She soon resigned from the party and returned to journalism, but when CLP Chief Minister Marshall Perron resigned from his Darwin seat of Fannie Bay, causing a by-election, she decided to make another attempt to enter Parliament.

She then descended into the adyton ( Greek for " inaccessible ") and mounted her tripod seat, holding laurel leaves and a dish of Kassotis spring water into which she gazed.

She entered the House of Commons at the 1997 general election in the Labour landslide as the Member of Parliament for Staffordshire Moorlands, a seat held previously by David Knox and which had been Conservative for 27 years.

She became a member of the Committee for Ethnic Minority Women ’ s Participation, has a seat on the board of governors of the Chair on the Management of Diversity and Integration at the Free University of Amsterdam, she ( along with her husband ) is a patron of the Orange Fund ( established to promote social welfare and cohesion in the Netherlands ), and she also chairs the Board of Trustees of the Prince Claus Chair of the University of Utrecht.

She was en route to Bally to visit her ailing mother, and reportedly gave up her seat in a lifeboat to another passenger.

She is the first woman to have won the Democratic nomination for a U. S. Senate seat in Texas.

She won the seat in her own right in 1988 and has been reelected 10 more times with no substantive opposition, winning by an average of 80 percent of the vote.

She was replaced as party leader by Paul Rosenmöller and her seat was taken by Tara Singh Varma.

She has been a candidate for the federal New Democrats five times, first winning her seat the third time in a close race against Tony Ianno in the 2006 Canadian election, and re-elected in 2008 and 2011.

She was the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Romsey in Hampshire from 2000 to 2010, when she lost her seat to Conservative MP Caroline Nokes.

She won the by-election, on 4 May, with a majority of 3, 311 votes and has held the seat there since, winning in the 2001 and 2005 general elections.

She was appointed to the frontbench by Charles Kennedy after the 2001 General Election as the party's spokeswoman on women's issues and older people from 2001, with a seat in the Liberal Democrat Frontbench Team.

She was interviewed by Robin Day for BBC Television's Decision 79 election programme shortly after learning that she had lost her seat.

She becomes involved in the civil rights movement and her decision to keep her seat on the bus prompts the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which lasted 381 days and caught national attention.

She returned to the House of Commons after the February 1974 general election, becoming MP for the safe Labour seat of Crewe, having received the sponsorship of the National Union of Railwaymen ( later part of RMT ).