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She and resisted
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 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 steadfastly for some time, until her two daughters were taken away from her, supposedly forever.
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 and Portuguese
She was captured by the forces of Pedro IV and under orders of Portuguese Capuchin Friars condemned for being a witch and a heretic and consequently burned to death.
The Court, like most Imperial Courts, was considered a reflection of the ruler at its center and Elizabeth was said to be “ the laziest, most extravagant and most amorous of sovereigns .” Elizabeth was intelligent but lacked the discipline and early education necessary to flourish as an intellectual ; she found the reading of secular literature to be “ injurious to health .” She kind and warm-hearted for the emotions sake alone, once going so far as to offer to finance the reconstruction of Lisbon after the 1755 earthquake destroyed the Portuguese city despite having and wanting no diplomatic relationship with the nation.
She responded with the Portuguese language song " Disseram que Voltei Americanizada ", or " They Say I've Come Back Americanized.
She is a trained interpreter and speaks six languages: Swedish, her native languages German and Portuguese, as well as French, Spanish, and English.
Zita and her siblings were raised to speak Italian, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese and English She recalled, " We grew up internationally.
She married Felipe D ' Aquino ( last name sometimes given only as Aquino ), a Portuguese citizen of Japanese-Portuguese descent, on April 19, 1945.
She was credited for introducing the custom of drinking tea in Britain, a custom that was already very popular among the Portuguese nobility.
Following the restoration of the Portuguese Royal House, and her father's accession to the throne on 1 December 1640, she was proposed as a bride for John of Austria, François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort, Louis XIV and Charles II, She was seen as a useful conduit for contracting an alliance between Portugal and England, after the Treaty of the Pyrenees in 1659 in which Portugal was arguably abandoned by France.
She was also the Portuguese representative at the 1969 São Paulo Art Biennial.
She has long competed in the Portuguese national pre-selection for the Eurovision Song Contest.
She was born as heiress-presumptive to the Portuguese throne, but her status as heiress lapsed when the Queen gave birth to a son, Pedro, two years later.
She was usually referred to as Bárbara or Maria Bárbara, a name never before used among Portuguese royals, in honour of Saint Barbara, the saint of her birthday.
She is related to the present Portuguese and Brazilian Royal House of Braganza, the House of Este, the House of Austria-Este and the House of Savoy, mainly through her granddaughter by Françoise Marie de Bourbon, Charlotte Aglaé d ' Orléans.
She has sung in Spanish, English, Portuguese, French and Tagalog .< ref name =" Billboard 1997 ">
She lived during a period when the Atlantic slave trade and the consolidation of power by the Portuguese in the region were growing rapidly.
She retired in 1999 and got married in 2000 to the Portuguese banderillero Alexandre da Silva.
She was the oldest child of parents descended from Portuguese Marranos who sought asylum in England in the eighteenth century.
She is considered one of the more notable of the Portuguese queen consorts.
She founded what became the city of Caldas da Rainha, which was named in her honor (" rainha " means " queen " in Portuguese ).
She performed at Live 8 ; she sang at the Eden Project in Cornwall, after which she has been invited to concerts and events worldwide to promote Portuguese culture, from Australia to Finland, the United States and Argentina.
She has also sung in Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Hebrew, Greek, and German.
She performs most of her songs both in Italian and Spanish, but she has also recorded songs in English, French and Portuguese.
She is also fluent in German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and English, as well as her native Tsonga.
She has a spectacular soprano singing voice, and as such began her young life singing with a Portuguese orchestra, but when it was discovered that her singing voice had healing powers and marked her as an Apostle, she became an object of pursuit.

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