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She and opposed
She became involved in politics in Tiberius ’ imperial court, became an advocate for her sons to succeed Tiberius, and opposed Tiberius ’ natural son and natural grandson Tiberius Gemellus for succession.
She has expressed a variety of views on climate change but has been opposed to legislation reducing emissions.
She was first credited as Enya ( as opposed to Eithne ) for writing some of the music for the 1984 movie The Frog Prince, which was released on a soundtrack album of the same title.
She therefore said she opposed capital punishment " on epistemological, not moral, grounds.
" She opposed involuntary military conscription, but also thought those who avoided being drafted should be held criminally liable.
She opposed any form of censorship, including legal restrictions on pornography.
She publicly opposed the proposed free trade agreement of the European Economic Community ( EEC, later European Union ) in 1973, by signing a petition along with 500 other more-or-less prominent social democrats and socialists.
She draws comparisons with Thetis ' role in another work of the epic Cycle concerning Troy, the lost Aethiopis, which presents a strikingly similar relationship — that of the divine Dawn, Eos, with her slain son Memnon ; she supplements the parallels with images from the repertory of archaic vase-painters, where Eros and Thetis flank the symmetrically opposed heroes with a theme that may have been derived from traditional epic songs.
She was an ally of her husband's most trusted adviser, the deeply distrusted Eadric Streona, ealdorman of Mercia, and he took her side, but she was opposed by Æthelred's oldest surviving son, Edmund Ironside, and his allies, who naturally regarded him as the heir.
She opposed such competition-oriented views of evolution, stressing the importance of symbiotic or cooperative relationships between species.
She became the figurehead of a popular reform movement that opposed the unpopular George.
She was deeply distrustful of Germans, and invariably opposed anything that favoured German expansion or interests.
She became engaged to engineer and novelist Arthur Gundaccar Freiherr von Suttner ( who died on 10 December 1902 ), but his family opposed the match, and she answered an advertisement from Alfred Nobel in 1876 to become his secretary-housekeeper at his Paris residence.
She stated that she strongly opposed bigotry, discrimination and dogma, which she believes are promoted by a small minority of Christians.
She staunchly opposed the Republican's Head Start program overhaul in the 108th Congress, invoking her experience growing up poor and challenged by a speech impediment.
She opposed the troop surge in February 2007.
She was eleven years older than Geoffrey, and very proud of her status as an Empress ( as opposed to being a mere Countess ).
She believed in " a living wage ; in an eight-hour day ; in courts of conciliation and arbitration ; in justice as opposed to greed in gain ; in Peace on Earth and Good-Will to Men.
She even opposed its efforts to get military pensions for its members.
She vehemently opposed the attempt to compel the assent of the nuns to the Papal bulls condemning Jansenism, but was at last compelled to yield.
She chose to go, but said that she opposed discrimination ( as did her husband ).
She has since returned as the Queen of Blood, to raise an army against man, but is opposed by Hellboy who possesses the sword Excalibur ( And thus is technically king of England ).
She opposed all-women shortlists, and resisted Militant.
She vehemently opposed the New Deal, perceived " creeping socialism ," Social Security, wartime rationing and all forms of taxation, claiming she ceased writing highly paid commercial fiction to protest paying income taxes.
She has described her acting technique as, "< nowiki ></ nowiki > only as good as the person you're acting with ... As opposed to going it on my own and forging my path to create a wonderful performance without the help of anyone.

She and war
She and her husband had formerly lived in New York, where she had many friends, but Mr. Flannagan thought the country would be safer in case of war.
She had quarreled with Lucien, she had resisted his demands for money -- and if she died, by the provisions of her marriage contract, Lucien would inherit legally not only the immediate sum of gold under the floorboards in the office, but later, when the war was over, her father's entire estate.
She is asked to help develop technology that could gain the upper hand in the impending war.
She is infatuated with the rowdy red-headed Brent Tarleton, who is killed in the war after becoming engaged to her.
She managed to offend neither to a large extent, although she clamped down on Catholics towards the end of her reign as war with Catholic Spain loomed.
She risked war with Spain by supporting the " Sea Dogs ," such as John Hawkins and Sir Francis Drake, who preyed on the Spanish merchant ships carrying gold and silver from the New World.
She noted that they produced an extraordinary wealth of information on German war plans but next to nothing on the repeated question of British penetration of Russian intelligence in either London or Moscow.
How can we ever thank you ?” She later explained: “ Everyone thought the war was over, and in that spirit I sent the cable to Hitler ”.
She survived a helicopter crash in Sudan in 2000 while trying to learn the fates of her Nuba friends during the Sudanese civil war and was airlifted to a Munich hospital.
She is generally considered a war deity comparable with the Germanic Valkyries, although her association with a cow may also suggest a role connected with wealth and the land.
She can be interpreted as providing political or military aid, or protection to the king — acting as a goddess of sovereignty, not necessarily a war goddess.
She responded to the questions of citizens, foreigners, kings, and philosophers on issues of political impact, war, duty, crime, laws — even personal issues.
She spoke Italian again as a flashy prostitute in Woody Allen's 2012 To Rome with Love and she is set to reunite with Italian director Sergio Castellitto in his war tale Venuto al Mondo as Gemma.
She became the largest landowner in Paraguay after Solano López transferred most of Paraguay and portions of Brazil into her name during the war, yet she retained practically nothing when the war ended.
She named the top leaders of the Islamist groups and termed them " war criminal and responsible for the ongoing tragedy in Afghanistan ".
She dispatched the Earl of Argyll and Lord Moray to offer terms and avert a war.
She was later sent to a prisoner of war camp.
She testified about a hippie group and its leader Charles Manson, a thwarted musician who believed that a race war was imminent.
She risked war with Spain by supporting the " Sea Dogs ," such as John Hawkins and Francis Drake, who preyed on the Spanish merchant ships carrying gold and silver from the New World.
She maintained an air of self-assured calm throughout all her public engagements in the years after the war, a period marked by civil unrest over social conditions, Irish independence and Indian nationalism.
) She was murdered in 1382 by her cousin and heir, Charles of Durazzo, who started a new war, leading to the separation of Nice, Puget-Théniers and Barcelonnette from Provence in 1388, and their attachment to the territories of Savoy.
She said later that the war had depressed her and she had wanted to write something naïve and innocent.
She was the first major artist to perform in Sarajevo since the outbreak of the Yugoslav civil war.
She too is ignored, hence their doom and loss of the war.

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