She was often described as a Lady Macbeth-type who dominated her husband.

She is completely dominated by her spendthrift father ( who, it is revealed, sells the annuity Jos had provided in order " to prosecute his bootless schemes " ) and her increasingly peevish mother.

She began a new era for the opera in Saxony, which had previously been dominated by the castrati.

She always enjoyed the status of privileged counselor to her husband, petitioning him on the behalf of others and influencing his policies, an unusual role for a Roman wife in a culture dominated by the paterfamilias.

She dominated the ailing composer, who had no say in the subject-matter, the voice types or the balance between solos, duets and ensembles.

She used illness as a means of securing the attention and obedience of her mild and affectionate husband and she dominated her son in the same way.

") This comedy had an immense influence, as regards manipulation of dialogue, upon all subsequent English comedies of repartee, and he who wants to trace the ancestry of Tony Lumpkin and Mrs Hardcastle ( in She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith ) has only to turn to Jerry Blackacre and his mother, while Manly ( for whom Wycherley's early patron, the Duke of Montausier, sat ), though he is perhaps overdone, has dominated this kind of stage character ever since.

She lived in Brighton Place in Wolverhampton, which by the 1960s was dominated by immigrant families.

She dominated the 1908 to 1910 winter sports seasons at Chamonix, Gérardmer, and Ballon d ' Alsace, where she achieved first place on more than 20 occasions.

She also is a perpetual daydreamer who yearns for a glamorous wedding and marriage to a man who will help improve her personal life and free her from a tedious life dominated by her demanding and often psychologically abusive father Bill ( Bill Hunter ), a corrupt politician who verbally lashes out at his subservient wife Betty and their unambitious children at every opportunity.

As one professor puts it “… Lupino ’ s cinematic tenure can be understood as a varied and complex attempt to control both image and image reception .” She even credited her refusal to renew her contract with Warner Bros. under the pretences of her domesticity, claiming “ I had decided that nothing lay ahead of me but the life of the neurotic star with no family and no home .” She wanted to seem unthreatening in a male dominated environment, which is made clear by a statement she made in which she says, “ That ’ s where being a man makes a great deal of difference.

She grew up in a household where the plain dress and strict discipline of the Society of Friends dominated her life.

She was a key member of the USSR team that dominated the women's Olympiads of the 1980s and, when Georgia achieved independence from the Soviet Union in 1990, she played board 1 for the new Georgian national team that won four gold medals, in 1992, 1994, 1996 and 2008.

Cosimo I had previously proscribed clergy from holding administrative roles in government, but Christina decided to lift the ban .. She dominated her grandson long after he came of age until her death in 1636.

She saw it as a hidden fact which is often unseen or not discussed in a male dominated, justice and judgment based approach to ethics.

She was one of the contributing players of the USSR team that dominated the women's Olympiads of the 1980s.

As the last surviving child of Peter I, Elizabeth ’ s reign had a certain legitimacy and the people of the empire greeted her ascension as the end of German dominated rule She was, perhaps, more interested in politics than any of her predecessors.

She has dominated the 3000 m indoor event, winning the three consecutive gold medals at the IAAF World Indoor Championships.

She immediately took out Stratus and dominated in matches against Molly Holly and Jacqueline.

She analyzes the androcracy ( governance of social organization dominated by males ) of Indo-European and other societies, versus what she proposes was a partnership model ( as distinct from matriarchy ) for the social organization of Neolithic Europe and the later Minoan civilization that flourished in prehistoric Neolithic Crete.

She ran to show the futility of the Top-TwoFforward primary, pointing out that a newer party candidate could only get on the General Election ballot in districts that are dominated by one older party.

She returned to Romania in 1944 when the Red Army entered the country, becoming a member of the postwar government, which came to be dominated by the Communists.

' She was hailed for her smooth and fluent choreography and dominated a stage with what has been described as ' an unmitigating radiant force providing beauty with a feminine touch full of variety and nuance.

She illustrates the interplay between Chinese and English cinema tradition but ultimately suggests that Jen, as the " woman warrior " of the film, overthrows the European patriarchal tradition.

She was born in Hongkou District, Shanghai, China, on March 5, 1898, though some biographies give the year as 1897, since Chinese tradition considers one to be a year old at birth.

She was a member of the Legislative Yuan from 1930 to 1932 and Secretary-General of the Chinese Aeronautical Affairs Commission from 1936 to 1938.

An African giraffe being led into a Ming Dynasty zoo, a Chinese painting by She Du, 1414 AD, during the reign of the Yongle Emperor.

She drew on and blended styles from Chinese histories, narrative poetry and contemporary Japanese prose.

She found herself billed between Charlton Heston and David Niven in the epic 55 Days at Peking in 1963, a lavish version of the Chinese revolt against foreign control during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900.

* The 1936 novel Rickshaw Boy is a novel by the Chinese author Lao She about the life of a fictional Beijing rickshaw man.

She was known to the Chinese as 艾偉德 ( Ài Wěi Dé-a Chinese approximation to ' Aylward ' - meaning ' Virtuous One ').

She made a partnership with a Chinese

She suggests attending to the intersections of race, gender, and U. S. citizenship in order to both understand the restraints of such a historical tendency and make visible Chinese female immigration experiences, including the Page Act of 1875.

She went first to Xi ' an, then to the Chinese Communist headquarters in Yan ' an to " join the revolution " and the war to resist the Japanese invasion.

She had not confessed her guilt, something that the Chinese press has emphasized to show her bad attitude.

She was the author of many novels, plays, films, interviews, essays and short fiction, including her best-selling, apparently autobiographical work L ' Amant ( 1984 ), translated into English as The Lover, which describes her youthful affair with a Chinese man.

She grew up in a racially diverse neighborhood in the 1970s and 1980s, which she described as a community of " old hippies, ex-druggies, burn-outs from the ' 60s, drag queens, Chinese people, and Koreans.

In traditional Chinese astronomy, Eta Carinae has the names Tseen She ( from the Chinese 天社 tiānshè " Heaven's altar ") and Foramen.

She escaped from a member of the Yeong Wo Company in the 1870s to Boise to marry her lover, another Chinese man.

She saved thousands of Chinese civilians, but later took her own life.

She has written one novel, Tripmaster Monkey, a story depicting a character based on the mythical Chinese character Sun Wu Kong.

She met with Chinese Vice-President Xi Jinping and the pair spoke for 35 minutes over lunch.

She also played a sadistic Chinese princess in The Mask of Fu Manchu, opposite Boris Karloff.

She was the first Asian Pacific American woman and first Chinese American to be appointed to a President's cabinet in American history.

She traveled with Kim Jong Il on a secretive trip to China in January 2006, where she was received by Chinese officials as Kim's wife.