She constantly struggled for perfection, " A perfect technique in anything ," she stated in an interview, " means that there has been no break in continuity between the conception and the act of performance.

" She had little money and struggled to cope, as she had the well-being of her ladies-in-waiting to maintain as well as her own.

She had excelled in history, political science and economics but struggled with her Latin, failing in the subject several times.

She later helped John Brown recruit men for his raid on Harpers Ferry, and in the post-war era struggled for women's suffrage.

She struggled financially for much of her life.

She struggled throughout her regency to reinstate the Diocese of Merseburg, which her husband Otto II had absorbed into the Archdiocese of Magdeburg in 981.

She readily admitted that she had come from an abusive, alcoholic background and struggled with alcohol problems herself.

She regularly read to soldiers in the military hospitals and on the front line ; indeed, her later pieces seem to be the voice of those who had struggled and the many she has outlived.

She also studied theology and struggled with the meaning of " good and evil, sorrow and forgiveness, and man's destiny on earth.

She returned to the stage in Stars in Your Eyes, which struggled to survive while the public flocked to the 1939 New York World's Fair instead and finally closed short of four months.

She struggled with a variety of disorders in addition to alcoholism, including bulimia and epilepsy.

She had struggled to beat Monica Seles in their semifinal 6 – 3, 3 – 6, 6 – 3.

She struggled for several years, working as a ticket agent for Eastern Airlines and for the British Overseas Air Corp ( BOAC ).

She did not get along with his friends, and she struggled to learn French.

She struggled with personal financial problems for the rest of her life.

She remained very close to her mother, however, as both had struggled through those early years, with her great uncle, Charles Goddard ( her grandfather's brother ) lending a hand.

She placed 5th at the 1995 Canadian Championships, but struggled with injuries which caused her to withdraw from the 1997 Championships.

She struggled with what motivated her actions to kill Pfaster, and questioned whether it was God compelling her to kill him, or " something else.

She said that Prado had struggled for breath, had died and his body would be there within the indicated area.

She struggled to keep it going, but by this time, London's Soho neighbourhood had become a seedier place.

She wanted a bigger house than Tony and Carmela's, with a pool, an expensive wedding, and an affluent lifestyle, even though Richie struggled to afford such luxuries and his attempts to make the necessary income caused conflicts with Tony.

She lost consciousness but struggled to regain it.

She was a regular on The Benny Hill Show ( as one of " Hill's Angels "), putting her experience as a dancer in the famous " Christmas in Heaven " scene from Monty Python's The Meaning of Life and appeared as a tourist with a baby in the David Lee Roth music video for the song " California Girls ," but struggled for several years to establish herself.

She thought that they were actually alluding to Joel, and struggled to think of some way to help Joel escape his alleged fate.

She had reached a point at which she didn't even care how she looked.

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

She sat down at the table, shaking her head.

She clung to him, talking to him, and dabbing at her eyes.

She crouched aside as bullets beat at the portal, chewing into the planks.

She showed her surprise by tightening the reins and moving the gelding around so that she could get a better look at his face.

She had picked up the quirt and was twirling it around her wrist and smiling at him.

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 looked at him, lips compressed.

She sat quietly, staring at me from the wide eyes.

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

Meredith was irritated when the Grafin knocked at his door and told him, `` She is a great beauty!!

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 began to watch a blonde-haired man, also in shorts, standing right at the rear of the wrecked car in the one spot that most of the crowd had detoured slightly.

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 daubed at her swimming eyes with a lacy handkerchief and said with obvious emotion: `` That poor boy!!

She snapped at him.

She looked down at her hands, too.

She grabbed at Feathertop's sleeve and shrieked, `` Help him!!

She passed the entrance examinations to the University of Illinois, but during the year at Urbana felt more important events transpired at the University of Chicago.

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

She was more excited than frightened at the prospect of having her first child in a foreign land.

She was certain now that it would be no harder to bear her child here in such pleasant surroundings than at home in the big white house in Haverhill.

She used to tell me, `` When I stand there and look at the flag blowing this way and that way, I have the wonderful, safe feeling that Americans are protected no matter which way the wind blows ''.