She ranks # 14 on the AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Stars list of actress screen legends.

She won 107 singles titles, which ranks her third on the WTA's all-time list after Martina Navratilova ( 167 titles ) and Chris Evert ( 157 titles ).

She rose through the ranks of the Labour Front Bench, despite twice resigning from it – over the Prevention of Terrorism Act in 1988, and over the Gulf War in 1990.

She becomes connected with the Communist guerrillas in China, and eventually joins the Party, rising through the ranks to become a leader in the revolutionary movement.

She believes it contributed to the " self-identity of an emergent New Age movement and also augment its ranks.

When his staff complained about the outspoken, insubordinate female nurse who consistently disregarded the army's red tape and military procedures, Union Gen. William T. Sherman threw up his hands and exclaimed, " She ranks me.

After receiving her Ph. D., she continued to teach at the Saint Petersburg University of the Ministry of Interior of Russia. She also continued her career as a police officer, being promoted to the ranks of Captain in September 2002 and Major in 2005.

You should do something with that '" She worked as a receptionist for an insurance company and from there, she moved up the ranks to become an assistant underwriter, which she found extremely boring.

She quickly rose through the ranks there and became a Rapportaufseherin ( her main task was to count women at roll call and hand out punishments ).

She is jumped three grades in Manticorian service ( skipping the ranks of rear admiral and vice admiral ), giving her the rank necessary for the post.

She was sworn in as a Police Officer in 1977, and worked through the ranks of inspector, sergeant, lieutenant, captain, commander, deputy chief, assistant chief, acting chief and, then permanent chief.

She then switches minds with Storm in order to defeat the X-Men from within their own ranks, but the process is soon reversed and the two are restored to their respective bodies.

She had the portions of her brain that granted her telepathy removed in order to join the ranks of the Council.

She rose in the ranks of local and national educators, becoming principal and superintendent of schools in Chester County, Pennsylvania, and serving as professor of history at Swarthmore College from 1871 to 1880.

She rose through the ranks, and was later promoted to producer.

She was able to sneak into their ranks thanks to the fact that her father Rufus was an on-air personality for the radio station.

She then rose through the ranks to achieve the position of senior Vice President.

She ranks 25th out of 435 members in seniority and serves on the powerful House Appropriations Committee.

She intends to continue eating competitively until she either loses her desire, or falls out of the ranks of the elite eaters.

She often ranks high on lists of most powerful, popular, or attractive Indian celebrities.

She ranks among the greatest singers of the 20th century ; indeed, many opera critics called hers " the voice of the century.

She rose through the ranks there to become the university's first female vice president.

She was named the third-most powerful woman in the world by Forbes magazine in the year 2004 and currently ranks sixth.

She was promoted through the ranks and gained principal status in 1992, immediately following the company's opening performance in Japan, at which she danced the role of Gamzatti in La Bayadere.

She was a top horsewoman and one of the city's most gracious hostesses.

She was still in the play for pay business when she died, a top trollop who had given the world's oldest profession one of its rare flashes of glamour.

She arranged the letters carefully, one on top of the other.

She became the top-ranking female box office star of all time and is currently ranked sixth among the top 10 box office performers ( male and female ), as of 2012.

She continued to have hits with " Heartbreaker " ( 1978 ), " Baby I'm Burning " and " You're the Only One " ( both 1979 ), all of which charted in the pop singles Top 40, and all of which also topped the country-singles chart ; 1979's " Sweet Summer Lovin '" became the first Parton single in two years to not top the country singles chart ( though it still nonetheless reached the top ten ).

She continued to enjoy steady success during the 1990s and 2000s ; her 2000 album A Day Without Rain sold 15 million copies, and became the top selling new age album of the 2000s in the US, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

She won a listeners ' poll by Radio Mirror magazine as the top ranking comedienne of 1948 – 1949, receiving her award at the end of an Our Miss Brooks broadcast that March.

She grew up in Goleta, California, and graduated from Dos Pueblos High School in 1968 in the top 10 percent of her class and was the student body treasurer of her high school.

She had a string of successful albums and top 10 hits in three consecutive decades.

She named the top leaders of the Islamist groups and termed them " war criminal and responsible for the ongoing tragedy in Afghanistan ".

" She visits Las Vegas up to three times each month to participate in poker games with the top players of the United States.

She is often portrayed as a stereotypical television mother and is often included on lists of top " TV moms ".

She appears almost invariably with brown shorts, boots and small backpack, a dark green or blue sleeveless top, holsters on both sides of her hip for dual wielded pistols.

The top songs in America as listed on April 4, in order, are: Can't Buy Me Love, Twist and Shout, She Loves You, I Want to Hold Your Hand, and Please Please Me.

This was followed with the single " She Bangs the Drums ", which gave them a top forty UK hit, and a number one on the UK Independent Chart, and by that point they were receiving much greater press attention and were selling out shows across the country.

She had to reward the catholicos Michael's support by making him a chancellor, thus placing him at the top of both the clerical and secular hierarchies.

She learned Italian, from Metastasio, on top of the necessary French and German, as well as Austrian history and French history, though from an Austrian perspective.

She was the only player in the WTA top 100 that had fewer than 10 tournaments counting towards her world ranking.

" She is the only female artist in the history of the Hot 100 to have 18 consecutive top ten hit singles, from " Miss You Much " ( 1989 ) to " I Get Lonely " ( 1998 ).

She won numerous dancing contests and she was considered as the top female dancer in Mongolia.

She received a Razzie Award for Worst Actress, and the critics despised the film, although it grossed a moderate $ 19 million in its first release and was one of the top 30 grossing films of the year.