She has strongly defended the President's role as the commander in chief of the military.

She portrayed a recently widowed attorney who defended Cal Leonard accused of murdering his cousin in " The Case of Constant Doyle.

She successfully defended her conduct with wit and defiance.

She was among the would-be sacrificial victims of Minotaur ; while on board the ship, Minos attempted to sexually abuse her but she was defended by Theseus, with whom she later consorted.

She defended her title against Anissa Zamarron winning on points, then met Phoenix's Yvonne Trevino which the judges called a technical draw ( word used for tie in boxing ).

She and her husband, Venutius, are described by Tacitus as loyal to Rome and " defended by our arms ".

She defended her title against Cinthya Prouder ( won in a unanimous decision after round 6 ), Alicia Ashley ( won in a unanimous decision after round 8 ), Gina Greenwald ( knockout in round 1 ) and Kelsey Jeffries ( knockout in round 3 ), followed.

She defended her title against Monique Strohman and Debra Strohman.

She defended her vote by saying, " As a woman, I can't go to war and I refuse to send anyone else.

She defended her actions forthrightly, saying that women should not act timid and ladylike if doing so lent credence to the idea that women did not want to speak in public rather than the truth which was that they were being prevented by men from doing so.

She has defended this by saying: " I have posed nude in the past and I will in the future, I'm not making porn, porn is when you do a video of sex.

She successfully defended her Wimbledon title in 1979, again beating Evert in the final, and retained her World No. 1 ranking.

She later wrote passionately about the change from service à la française to service à la russe and hailed Escoffier as a saviour of British cooking-although she also fiercely defended her opinion that there was no such thing as English Cuisine, " Even the good old Yorkshire pudding comes from Burgundy.

She has publicly defended him against the criticism he receives over the amount of money he is paid by RTÉ.

" She defended every American's " right to criticize ... right to hold unpopular beliefs ... right to protest ; the right of independent thought.

She nevertheless campaigned for Goldwater in the general election, appearing in a television ad in which she defended his position on Social Security.

She has loved Mytho since childhood after he defended her from crows, and now takes advantage of his apathy to pretend they are a couple.

: A thousand times She has defended it,

She vehemently defended Colorado's Amendment 2 in 1992, an amendment to the Colorado state constitution that would have prevented any city, town or county in the state from taking any legislative, executive, or judicial action from recognizing homosexual citizens as a Protected class, all the way to the US Supreme Court, where it was struck down as unconstitutional in Romer v. Evans.

She successfully defended her seat in the 2005 general election, increasing her majority to over 2, 700.

She has defended a neo-Stoic account of emotions that holds that they are appraisals that ascribe to things and persons, outside the agent's own control, great significance for the person's own flourishing.

She fought and won six non-title bouts over the next 11 months, then defended her title against fellow unbeaten Lena Akesson on August 14, 1999 in Miami Beach, Florida.

She defended marriage and the family against an onslaught of damaging legislation in recent years.

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She continued with the play ; but, when Korda moved it to a larger theatre, Leigh was found to be unable to project her voice adequately or to hold the attention of so large an audience, and the play closed soon after.

She remarked to a journalist, " I've cast myself as Scarlett O ' Hara "; and The Observer film critic C. A. Lejeune recalled a conversation of the same period in which Leigh " stunned us all " with the assertion that Olivier " won't play Rhett Butler, but I shall play Scarlett O ' Hara.

She received her first Oscar nomination for the role, but lost to Vivien Leigh for Gone with the Wind.

General Leigh Wade flew with Earhart in 1929: " She was a born flier, with a delicate touch on the stick.

) She asked her friend actor Leigh Whipper and other well known black entertainers to join her Negro Division Victory committee.

She did return in 2001, however, with her family, for one film The Anniversary Party, as a favor to the director, her best friend, Jennifer Jason Leigh.

She first appeared on screen as Lucy Collins in the Liverpool soap opera Brookside from 1982 to 1988 and later became well known for her film work with directors such as Mike Leigh and Lars von Trier.

Mike Leigh: " She took to the improvisation and character work instantly, easily and with extraordinary commitment and imagination.

She was married to actor Vic Morrow – with whom she had two daughters, actress Jennifer Jason Leigh and Carrie Ann Morrow – from 1957 to 1964, and to Iranian television director Reza Badiyi – with whom she had another daughter, actress Mina Badie, from 1968 to 1985.

She was the daughter of Mary Robinson McConnell ( an Episcopalian ) and James Leigh Gish ( who was of German Lutheran descent ).

She became a member of the Langham Place Group, which set out to improve conditions for women, and was friends with feminists Bessie Rayner Parkes ( later Bessie Rayner Belloc ) and Barbara Leigh Smith, later Barbara Bodichon.

She divorced him and, in 1961, married Laurence Olivier after the breaking of his 20-year marriage with the actress Vivien Leigh.

She remained there until May 1944 when, together with three other captured female SOE agents, Vera Leigh, Sonya Olschanezky and Diana Rowden, Borrel was shipped to the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp in the Vosges Mountains of Alsace.

She is the mother of actresses Joely Fisher and Tricia Leigh Fisher.

She was married ( div ) to John Tracy Baxter ( b. 23 Aug 1926 Macon, Georgia, USA ) http :// www. geneall. net / U / per_page. php? id = 317506, with whom according to the New York obituary, she had three daughters, Elizabeth Baxter and Etienne Baxter, both of Paris, and Leigh Warre nee Baxter, of Brooklyn ; and a grandson.

She was born in Santa Monica, California, the elder child of actors Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh and the sister of actress Jamie Lee Curtis.

She appeared in the 1963 film version of Bye Bye Birdie, in the role of Mama Mae Peterson, with Dick Van Dyke, Janet Leigh, Paul Lynde and Ann-Margret.

She fires it wildly, trying to hit Leigh Ann.

She was played by Rachael Leigh Cook in the 2001 live-action Josie and the Pussycats movie.

She published first under the pseudonym Arran Leigh, a nod to Elizabeth Barrett.

She is godmother to Birdie Leigh Silverstein, the daughter of actress Busy Phillipps and screenwriter Marc Silverstein.

She briefly appeared as Vivien Leigh in the climax of the made-for-TV movie, Moviola: The Scarlett O ' Hara War in 1980.

She is the sister of the late author Richard Leigh.

She also fronted the Chrystal Leigh Band during a stint in Kelowna, and contributed supporting vocals to the song ' Vertebrae ' by Closing Iris.