She gained entrance to Marat's house on the pretense of presenting him a list of people who should be executed as enemies of France.

She gained wider recognition for her music in the 1986 BBC series The Celts.

She is compared with Penthesilea, mythical queen of the Amazons, by the Greek historian Nicetas Choniates ; he adds that she gained the epithet chrysopous ( golden-foot ) from the cloth of gold that decorated and fringed her robe.

She gained prominence when she overcame the dismissive attitude of veteran commanders and lifted the siege in only nine days.

She returned the following January and gained support from two men of standing: Jean de Metz and Bertrand de Poulengy.

She gained German citizenship in 2011 and now holds dual citizenship with Germany and the U. S.

She gained weight, and felt nauseous in the mornings.

She first gained a part in Pitts ' 1945 road tour of Ramshackle Inn, moving to New York City.

She organized and collaborated with civil rights leaders, including Edgar Nixon, president of the local chapter of the NAACP ; and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a new minister in town who gained national prominence in the civil rights movement.

She finds him alive in Tunis, and makes herself known to him, who, having by his counsel gained high place in the king's favour, marries her, and returns with her wealthy to Lipari.

She gained critical acclaim for her performances in the independent films She's the One ( 1996 ), Office Space ( 1999 ), The Good Girl ( 2002 ) and Friends with Money ( 2006 ).

She made her film debut in 1992's Leprechaun, which was negatively reviewed by critics, but was commercially successful and gained a cult following.

She gained critical acclaim for her performances in The Object of My Affection ( 1998 ), a comedy-drama about a woman who falls for a gay man ( played by Paul Rudd ), and in the low-budget 2002 film The Good Girl, playing an unglamorous cashier in a small town.

She raised to the throne of Courland one Ernst Johann von Biron, who gained her particular favour and had considerable influence over her policies.

She gained recognition for her portrayal of aloof and mysterious beauties in films such as Repulsion ( 1965 ) and Belle de jour ( 1967 ).

She was cheered in public and gained plaudits for her " winning familiarity " and easy, open nature.

She gained more significant exposure in Jacques Doillon's critically acclaimed Family Life, which cast her as the volatile teenage step-daughter of Sami Frey's central character.

She gained international repute as editor of the international pacifist journal Die Waffen nieder !, named after her book, from 1892 to 1899.

She fought for 12 years and gained high merit, but she refused any reward and retired to her hometown instead.

She was flamboyant in her lyrics ; the publicity she gained was often tainted by her portrayal as an obstructionist and a saboteur.

She was misinterpreted by many as claiming the doctrine as a direct origin of the phrase and the connection gained currency in 1982, when the U. S. Commission on Civil Rights issued a report on wife abuse, titled " Under the Rule of Thumb.

She gained a reputation as a militant and violent campaigner.

She commenced a lengthy period of physical therapy and, aided by her personal assistant, Kathryn Sermak, gained partial recovery from the paralysis.

She also gained the autograph of American athlete Jesse Owens ; it became her most treasured possession.

She makes the argument that grouping all people of African descent together regardless of their unique ancestral circumstances would inevitably deny the lingering effects of slavery within the American community of slave descendents, in addition to denying black immigrants recognition of their own unique ancestral backgrounds.

She was a paleontologist who was known around the world for important finds, but because of her gender, usually omitted from formal recognition for her work.

She received wide recognition for her novel The Left Hand of Darkness, which won the Hugo and Nebula awards in 1970.

She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for the role, but commented it was belated recognition for Of Human Bondage, calling the award a " consolation prize ".

She was also the recipient of the 2010 BAFTA Fellowship " in recognition of an outstanding and exceptional contribution to film.

She is known for her role of Ellen Ripley in the four Alien films: Alien, Aliens, Alien 3, and Alien Resurrection, for which she has received worldwide recognition.

She had also been nominated for the award for four films before that and has received other recognition for her work.

She was also awarded the Légion d ' honneur by the French government as recognition for her wartime work.

She gained some recognition by singing at the Innerchange Coffeehouse and Java Joe's in San Diego, California.

She toured the UK in 1959, before she had achieved much pop recognition in the US.

She gained worldwide recognition for her ten season run as Phoebe Buffay in the television sitcom Friends, for which she received many accolades including an Emmy Award and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.

gained mainstream recognition when they released their first English single " All the Things She Said ", which topped the charts in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Italy, Switzerland and other European countries.

She received the Harmon Trophy as well as a CBE in recognition of this achievement, and was also honoured with the No. 1 civil pilot's licence under Australia's 1921 Air Navigation Regulations.

She also earned international recognition playing the Greek-soprano, Maria Callas, in the Spanish version of the Tony Award winner play Master Class ( Clase Maestra ) in 2003, for the Latin community in the United States and Latin America.

She looked at me in recognition for that first hour, and never since has that

She was attacked with depth charges and made to surface, there she was strafed with the loss of five crew and six injured, including the commander, despite yellow recognition smoke candles.

She thought they did and " saw in his entries evidence of genius worthy of special recognition ," notes Miller.

She achieved greater recognition playing opposite Matt Damon in Gus Van Sant's Good Will Hunting ( 1997 ), a role for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and a Screen Actors Guild Award, among others.

She was spotted by author Anita Loos and cast in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes as Lorelei Lee, the role that gained her recognition.

She settled in Ottawa in 1942, where her involvement with Le Groupe de la Place Royale, Opera Lyra Ottawa and the Council for the Arts in Ottawa led to recognition and awards such as the Order of Canada, the Lescarbot Award and the Victor Tolgesy Arts Award.

She recorded as many as five albums with Gabriel, this earned her recognition and credibility as a singer, and not only that but her albums were certified gold and platinum.

She would later receive recognition when the lady who appeared to her identified herself as the Immaculate Conception.