She was the first woman to start a weekly newspaper ; an activist for women's rights and labor reforms.

She instigated profound social and civil reforms, as well as the construction of many of the buildings that still today constitute the pride of the city, like the Teatro alla Scala, inaugurated on 3 August 1778 and today one of the world's most famous opera houses.

She used her influence to institute liberal reforms.

She and others argue that some administrative law reforms are necessary to address this accountability gap.

She sat on the House Armed Services Committee, and was involved in government oversight, passing several procurement reforms.

She renounced the Henrician and Edwardian changes, first by repealing her brother's reforms then by re-establishing unity with Rome.

She tried to launch liberal reforms using a Protestant prime minister, which outraged the Catholic conservatives of Bavaria.

She also encouraged many other reforms in society, including prison reform and the emancipation of slaves in the United States.

She participated in demonstrations asking the government for democratic reforms in 1987, even though she realized that speaking out could have enormous implications.

She campaigned for equality and integration for black people, making public speeches and addressing issues of abolition and other reforms.

She supports health care reforms in her native state as well, largely because health care costs for Alaskans are up to 70 % higher than costs in the contiguous United States.

She questioned if such a costly treatment would be available to others and if the risky research that makes such innovative treatments possible would be profitable under proposed health care reforms in the US.

She had to accept the reforms of Prince Gong and his supporters initially because of Prince Gong's role in helping her seize power and because of her relative inexperience in political affairs.

She championed dental and medical care for school children, property rights for married women, mothers ' allowances, factory safety legislation and many other reforms.

She referred to herself as " multi-ethnic ", representing " a truly multicultural constituency where hardship and deprivation gave birth to Britain's greatest social reforms.

" She described William Beveridge and Clement Attlee, as " surrounded by an East End infant mortality rate of 55 per cent " and said this led to social reforms including the NHS.

She was a campaigner for several reforms.

She was well-suited for the high-level efforts to effect sweeping reforms, but never caught the public's eye or its affection.

She was the first woman to hold the position since economic and political reforms in 1978, and the most powerful woman in Chinese politics since Jiang Qing.

She was an opponent of women's suffrage but promoted other legal reforms for women.

She brought about several liberal reforms, and kept Dredd close as she still valued his advice and experience.

She realized the importance of organizing the rural women of Canada so they might speak as one voice for needed reforms, and the value of co-ordinating provincial groups for a more consistent organization.

She has fought for tax reforms in favor of lower-income citizens, stating that “ one week of Bush tax cuts for millionaires could help 350, 00 hungry mothers and babies for an entire year .” Citing previous legislation and cuts to programs in favor of low-income children, Moore has recently proclaimed that “ has already cut the entitlement and snatched the safety net from up underneath kids .”

She was instrumental in reforms to the regulation of Victorian Bodies Corporate.

She said, `` I guess the Lord looks out for fools, drunkards, and innocents ''.

She studied it for a long time.

She seemed to have come such a long distance -- too far for her destination which had wilfully been swallowed up in the greedy gloom of the trees.

She could not scream, for even if a sound could take shape within her parched mouth, who would hear, who would listen??

She was glad, completely and unselfishly glad, to see that things were working out the right way for both Sally and Dan.

She was telling herself that this might just be her reward at the end of a long meaningful search for truth.

She set the dipper on the edge of the deck, leaving it for him to stretch after it while she looked on scornfully.

She said, with the solicitude of a middle-aged woman for her only child.

She wrote gay plays about the girls for family entertainments, like `` Oh, What Fun!!

She has rarely been photographed with him and, except for Carl's seventy-fifth anniversary celebration in Chicago in 1953, she has not attended the dozens of banquets, functions, public appearances, and dinners honoring him -- all of this upon her insistence.

She was pious, too, once kneeling through the night from Holy Thursday to Good Friday, despite the protest of the nuns that this was too much for a young girl.

She knelt out of reverence for having read the Meditations of St. Augustine.

She left the next day for her teaching job at Princeton, Illinois.

She ended her letter with the assurance that she considered his friendship for her daughter and herself to be an honor, from which she could not part `` without still more pain ''.

She had her reasons for this.

She had been picked up by the Russians, questioned in connection with some pamphlets, sentenced to life imprisonment for espionage.

She gave me the names of some people who would surely help pay for the flowers and might even march up to the monument with me.

She had done it last year, and the year before, and the year before that, and she, and her people were dependent upon these cans for food.

She should offer substitutes for the temptations which seem overwhelmingly desirable to the child.

She was the only kind of Negro Laura Andrus would want around: independent, unservile, probably charging double what ordinary maids did for housework -- and doubly efficient.

She was taken up in worry for the reckless old man.

She had taken him out of the schoolhouse and closed the school for the summer, after she saw Miss Snow crack Joel across the face with a ruler for letting a snake loose in the schoolroom.

She lay under the covers making jabbing motions with her forefinger telling me where to look for the coffeepot.

She wrote again and now, abandoning for the moment the theme of love, she asked for help in the matter of her career.