She held Jonathan's letter, his words burning like a brand, and knew suddenly that the bonds between them were severed.

She held herself that way and turned her head towards them and laughed and winked.

She held out her hand to show that she had money.

She had held to the letter of her contract and didn't come onto the stage until well after 4 p.m., the appointed hour, although the Music at Newport people had tried to get the program underway at 3.

She convinced him that he ought to be a member of some of the small tea-drinking parties she held at her rooms and in the end he complied with her wishes, although it was only rarely that he added anything to the random conversations.

She held high moral principles and, despite her shyness in company, was prepared to argue for her beliefs.

She tried to flee, but he coiled around her legs and held her arms tightly against her sides as he raped her.

She was held against her will and repeatedly raped.

She was transferred from Mauthausen to the notorious women's concentration camp at Ravensbruck, located 50 miles from Berlin, where unbeknownst to Gemma at the time, her daughter Yolanda ( whose husband also died in the camps ) and baby grandson were also held for a year in a separate barrack.

She was the daughter of citrus fruit magnate John A. Snively, who held extensive properties both in Winter Haven and in Waycross ; Parsons ' father was a famous World War II flying ace, decorated with the Air Medal, who was present at the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.

She held her first Council in the Great Hall ( The Old Palace ) of Hatfield.

She decided that an ecumenical council needed to be held to address the issue of iconoclasm and directed this request to Pope Hadrian I ( 772 – 795 ) in Rome.

She held various positions in the American Association for the Advancement of Science, notably president in 1975 and chair of the executive committee of the board of directors in 1976.

She was consequently named Assistant Professor of Egyptology at the University College of London in 1924, a post she held until her retirement in 1935.

" She firmly held on to this conviction until her death.

She appointed Gardiner to the council and made him both Bishop of Winchester and Lord Chancellor, offices he held until his death in November 1555.

She is also a co-founder of Broadway Barks, an annual animal adopt-a-thon held in New York City.

She held a low estimation of her writing abilities.

" She further held that to be is to be something, that " existence is identity.

She held that perception, being physiologically determined, is incapable of error.

" She held that the former is good, and the latter evil, and that there is a fundamental difference between them.

" She opposed involuntary military conscription, but also thought those who avoided being drafted should be held criminally liable.

She held this position until she retired in 1988.

She is charitable enough to pity Edward for being held to a loveless engagement by his gentlemanly honour.

She was elected to the Helsinki City Council, a position she held continuously for five terms from 1977 to 1996.

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 contested the seat of Burnley in Lancashire in the 1979 general election and then, against David Owen, the Plymouth Devonport seat in the 1983 general election.

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 ).