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She risked war with Spain by supporting the " Sea Dogs ," such as John Hawkins and Francis Drake, who preyed on the Spanish merchant ships carrying gold and silver from the New World.
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She risked war with Spain by supporting the " Sea Dogs ," such as John Hawkins and Sir Francis Drake, who preyed on the Spanish merchant ships carrying gold and silver from the New World.
She risked a breach with Jackson, her husband's mentor, by taking part in the social ostracism of Peggy Eaton.
She also risked her life evacuating the wounded when the Spanish surrendered at Callao.
She was a musically gifted child, and when 10 years old sang " Un bel dì vedremo " in a radio competition ; the tenor Beniamino Gigli warned her, however, that she risked ruining her voice and advised her to give up singing until she was older.
She began translating Katherine Mansfield during this period, as well as working on her first novel — she even risked returning to war-torn Rome to retrieve the manuscript of " Menzogna e sortilegio " and obtain winter clothes.
She and her family risked their lives to help Annemarie's best friend, Ellen Rosen, by pretending that Ellen is Annemarie's older sister.
She would speak to God of this family in distress as the father no longer had any work, of this elderly person who risked dying alone in an attic: “ Never have I prayed so well as in the streets ,” she would say.
She risked her life to search the databases of Apocalypse, a task which ended in her destruction at the hands of the Shadow King.
She learned in those early years the truth taken for granted by the Nagles: that God comes first, and that for His sake possessions, freedom, life itself must be risked if need be.
She was later killed, although Hem did not know this and risked his own life trying to find and rescue her.
She and war
She and her husband had formerly lived in New York, where she had many friends, but Mr. Flannagan thought the country would be safer in case of war.
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 is asked to help develop technology that could gain the upper hand in the impending war.
She is infatuated with the rowdy red-headed Brent Tarleton, who is killed in the war after becoming engaged to her.
She managed to offend neither to a large extent, although she clamped down on Catholics towards the end of her reign as war with Catholic Spain loomed.
She noted that they produced an extraordinary wealth of information on German war plans but next to nothing on the repeated question of British penetration of Russian intelligence in either London or Moscow.
How can we ever thank you ?” She later explained: “ Everyone thought the war was over, and in that spirit I sent the cable to Hitler ”.
She survived a helicopter crash in Sudan in 2000 while trying to learn the fates of her Nuba friends during the Sudanese civil war and was airlifted to a Munich hospital.
She is generally considered a war deity comparable with the Germanic Valkyries, although her association with a cow may also suggest a role connected with wealth and the land.
She can be interpreted as providing political or military aid, or protection to the king — acting as a goddess of sovereignty, not necessarily a war goddess.
She responded to the questions of citizens, foreigners, kings, and philosophers on issues of political impact, war, duty, crime, laws — even personal issues.
She spoke Italian again as a flashy prostitute in Woody Allen's 2012 To Rome with Love and she is set to reunite with Italian director Sergio Castellitto in his war tale Venuto al Mondo as Gemma.
She became the largest landowner in Paraguay after Solano López transferred most of Paraguay and portions of Brazil into her name during the war, yet she retained practically nothing when the war ended.
She named the top leaders of the Islamist groups and termed them " war criminal and responsible for the ongoing tragedy in Afghanistan ".
She dispatched the Earl of Argyll and Lord Moray to offer terms and avert a war.
She was later sent to a prisoner of war camp.
She testified about a hippie group and its leader Charles Manson, a thwarted musician who believed that a race war was imminent.
She maintained an air of self-assured calm throughout all her public engagements in the years after the war, a period marked by civil unrest over social conditions, Irish independence and Indian nationalism.
) She was murdered in 1382 by her cousin and heir, Charles of Durazzo, who started a new war, leading to the separation of Nice, Puget-Théniers and Barcelonnette from Provence in 1388, and their attachment to the territories of Savoy.
She said later that the war had depressed her and she had wanted to write something naïve and innocent.
She was the first major artist to perform in Sarajevo since the outbreak of the Yugoslav civil war.
She too is ignored, hence their doom and loss of the war.
She and with
She helped him with the dishes, then he brought more water in from the spring before it got dark.
She wiped it off with the sleeve of her coat.
She remembered little of her previous journey there with Grace, and she could but hope that her dedication to her mission would enable her to accomplish it.
She regarded them as signs that she was nearing the glen she sought, and she was glad to at last be doing something positive in her unenunciated, undefined struggle with the mountain and its darkling inhabitants.
She was standing with her back to the glass door.
She raised a protesting hand with a startled air.
She had touched her face, truly a noble and pure face, only with a lip salve which made her lips glisten but no redder than usual.
She cackled with mirth, showing the stumps of betel-stained teeth.
She had driven up with her husband in a convertible with Eastern license plates, although the two drivers knew nothing at the moment about that.
She would look at Jack, with that hidden something in her eyes, and Jack would see the Woman and become breathless and a little sick.
She said, with the solicitude of a middle-aged woman for her only child.
She munched little ginger cakes called mulatto's belly and kept her green, somewhat hypnotic eyes fixed on a light-colored male who was prancing wildly with a 5-foot king snake wrapped around his bronze neck.
She said with intense feeling: `` Come near, let me feel your arms.
She daubed at her swimming eyes with a lacy handkerchief and said with obvious emotion: `` That poor boy!!
She, too, is concerned with `` the becoming, the process of realization '', but she does not think in terms of subtle variations of spatial or temporal patterns.
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 opened the boxes with a tear in her eye and a sad smile on her face.
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 was Ellen Aldridge, a widow of good repute who was employed by Gorton's wife and lived with the family.
She had to clean the glass on the display cases in the butcher shop, help her brother scrub the cutting tables with wire brushes, mop the floors, put down new sawdust on the floors and help check the outgoing orders.
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, with her own work-weary hands, put seeds in the ground, watched them sprout, bud, blossom, and get ready to bear.
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