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 steadfastly for some time, until her two daughters were taken away from her, supposedly forever.

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 stared at him, her eyes wide as she thought about what he had said ; ;

She did not pause to consider what she would do if her plan should fail ; ;

She wondered what had taken place in town, between him and his wife.

She placed her palms, fingers outspread, on the desk in an odd gesture as if to say, `` Now, what next ''??

She came from Ohio, from what she called a `` small farm '' of two hundred acres, as indeed it was to farmer-type farmers.

She regretted what she described as the `` unwarrantable & unnecessary '' check to their friendship and said that she felt that they understood one another perfectly.

She showed us what had happened to her.

She said, `` My dear, do you know what Kent House is ''??

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 disciplined herself daily to do what must be done.

She had begun to turn back toward the house, but his look caught her and she stood still, waiting there for what his expression indicated would be a serious word of farewell.

She stammered, `` You heard what he said about police??

She didn't mind working hard, not as if she figured to do anything wrong to live easy and soft -- all she wanted was a chance, where she wasn't marked as what she was.

She ate what she could and went out along the covered passageway, with the rain dripping from the vines.

She doled out what Glendora vaguely guessed were the right amounts of dried peas, eggs, cornmeal, a little salt.

She could always predict what Stanley was going to do, ever since she first met him.

She didn't tell anyone, even her mother, what was wrong.

She calmly repeated what Moore had told me.

She felt mindless, walking, and almost easy until the church spire told her she was near the cemetery, and she caught herself wondering what she would say to Doaty.

She managed a missionary drive for the church once and got the books so confused that old Mr. Webber, the eldest elder, who'd never donated more than five dollars to anything, had to cough up five hundred dollars to avoid a scandal in what Edythe called `` the bosoms of the church ''.

She knew what people were thinking ; ;

She said what she meant and let it be.

She discovered the quality and depth of her feelings in the wordless transitions between what she could say and what she could not say.

She contended that this understanding was what enabled the biblical Jesus to heal and accords with the Scripture: " We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us ; he that is not of God heareth not us.