She thrust forward through the shadows and the trees that resisted her and tried to fling her back.

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 long resisted public speaking for fear she would not be sufficiently eloquent.

She resisted his attempts to seduce her, refusing to become his mistress as her sister Mary had.

She resisted telling Tracy for three months.

She then summoned Liu Ruyi to the capital Chang ' an in an attempt that was initially resisted by Liu Ruyi's chief of staff Zhou Chang ( 周昌 ), whom she respected because he was one of the officials who insisted on Liu Ying being the rightful heir.

She opposed all-women shortlists, and resisted Militant.

She initially resisted being appointed to the position, preferring an economic portfolio, but, after accepting it, threw her weight into the job.

Felton criticized what she saw as the hypocrisy of Southern men who boasted of superior Southern " chivalry " but opposed women's rights, and she expressed her dislike of the fact that Southern states resisted women's suffrage longer than other regions of the U. S. She wrote in 1915 that women were denied fair political participation " except in the States which have been franchised by the good sense and common honesty of the men of those States — after due consideration, and with the chivalric instinct that differentiates the coarse brutal male from the gentlemen of our nation.

She then summoned Liu Ruyi to the capital — an attempt that was initially resisted by Ruyi's chief of staff Zhou Chang ( 周昌 ), whom she respected because he was one of the officials who insisted on Liu Ying being the rightful heir.

She resisted the Portuguese well into her sixties, personally leading troops into battle.

She formed governmental policy for working with labor unions and helped to alleviate strikes by way of the United States Conciliation Service, Perkins resisted having American women be drafted to serve the military in World War II so that they could enter the civilian workforce in greatly expanded numbers.

She led the conservative faction at court that resisted the modernists and progressives who wanted to develop Ethiopia along western lines and bring modernity to the country.

She had resisted all entreaties to return to daytime television.

She resisted what she called ' the hierarchy of materials ', using plaster and mixing media to experiment with effects, a thread one can see running through the art of that time, especially on the West Coast.

She later resisted calls for a farewell tour.

She writes that Islam is a " sinister force " that must be resisted and contained.

She proved too strong, however, and resisted all Barnabas's attempts at brainwashing her into believing she was Josette DuPres.

She hands out a photograph of Power Pack, suggesting that from early childhood she needed to learn to keep her powers and other information about her siblings secret ( though in the original Power Pack series, it was Julie who most resisted hiding her powers, and in all other appearances as a member of Excelsior / Loners, she mentions her siblings frequently, and does not wear a mask to hide her identity, even though all the other members of the team do ).

She and her allies saw heterosociality as well as heterosexuality as aspects of hetero-power, strongly to be resisted.

She resisted calls by people to start playing music again for several years until she felt her daughters were old enough to understand what she was doing.

She was also a member of the Shirkat Gah Collective which catalyzed the Women ’ s Action Forum, the lobby group that so fiercely resisted the Zia regime.

She was tempted to use it to bring her daughter back to life, but she would not give in and she resisted its corruption until her last breath.

She fiercely resisted unionisation of bookshop staff, sacking most employees just before they had worked there six months, when they would gain limited job protection rights.

She believed that " war is stupid " and she steadfastly refused to accept popular distinctions between " good " and " bad " wars.

She says she isn't going to get it right, but Buddy steadfastly tells her she's the best to handle it.

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.