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She waged a long campaign to have the rose declared the official flower of the United States, which Congress eventually approved in 1987.
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She and waged
She was overwhelmed by the splendor of the Russian Court and frightened by the vicious intrigues waged there with cold calculation.
She had other hits in the 1960s on the label like the critically acclaimed Jimmy Radcliffe song " Try Me " that featured the saxophone work of King Curtis and is often mistakenly credited as the James Brown song of the same title, but no more chart toppers, and she waged a battle with heroin dependency.
She was unsuccessful in the face of a negative campaign waged against her by both major parties swapping preferences.
" She and her party waged a successful campaign to protect a tax credit for Canadians with severe and prolonged disabilities.
She and long
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 was telling herself that this might just be her reward at the end of a long meaningful search for truth.
She was forty-nine at this time, a lanky woman of breeding with an austere, narrow face which had the distinction of a steeple or some architecture that had been designed long ago for a stubborn sort of prayer.
She named 48 items, and said there were `` many more things which it would take too long to write ''.
She had swished away, she had been gone for a long time probably when Sarah suddenly realized that she ought to stop her, pour out the coffee, so no one would drink it.
She threw back a cushion over one of the seats, unlocked a padlock on the chest beneath it, then presently straightened, holding a long knife and a wicked looking spear gun in her hand.
She put the violin away and took out some linen, needles and yarn to while away the long, idle days in Budapest.
Catherine was quite short in stature with long red hair, wide blue eyes, a round face, and a fair complexion. She was descended, on her maternal side, from the English royal house ; her great-grandmother Catherine of Lancaster, after whom she was named, and her great-great-grandmother Philippa of Lancaster were both daughters of John of Gaunt and granddaughters of Edward III of England.
She carried on a long correspondence with Pope Gregory XI, also asking him to reform the clergy and the administration of the Papal States.
She does not understand what's going on around the cabin and is not alive long enough to figure it out.
She described the long necked creature as living in the rivers, and being about the size of a hippo, if not somewhat larger.
The Australian alternative rock band, The Go-Betweens dedicated a track off their 1994 album The Friends of Rachel Worth, When She Sang About Angels in reference to Smith's long time influence on themselves.
She notes that not only are the results not very precise, but that other structures mentioned in the research are not in fact pyramids, e. g. a tomb alleged to be the tomb of Amphion and Zethus near Thebes, a structure at Stylidha ( Thessaly ) which is just a long wall, etc.
She claims that Gould — particularly in his popular essays — uses a variety of strategies from literature, political science, and personal anecdotes to substantiate the general pattern of punctuated equilibrium ( long periods of stasis interrupted by rapid, catastrophic change ).
" She reached up and scratched her long fingernails down both my cheeks so deeply that I had marks for about a week ,” Cowles wrote.
She explained to us what it all meant, that this was the day for which she had been so long praying, but fearing that she would never live to see.
She and campaign
She continued to campaign for occupational safety and health while working as an investigating attorney for the U. S. Commission on Industrial Relations during Woodrow Wilson's presidency.
She recruited for the campaign, finally assembling some of her royal ladies-in-waiting as well as 300 non-noble vassals.
She campaigned during her husband's unsuccessful 1978 run for the United States Congress and later his successful Texas gubernatorial campaign.
She implemented four major initiatives: Take Time For Kids, an awareness campaign to educate parents and caregivers on parenting ; family literacy, through cooperation with the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy, she urged Texas communities to establish family literacy programs ; Reach Out and Read, a pediatric reading program ; and Ready to Read, an early childhood educational program.
She became devoted to her husband, but he was often on campaign, which led to Mary's family supposing him to be cold and neglectful.
She championed recreational drug prevention causes by founding the " Just Say No " drug awareness campaign, which was considered her major initiative as first lady.
She arranged a meeting among feuding campaign managers John Sears and Michael Deaver and her husband, which resulted in Deaver leaving the campaign and Sears being given full control.
She appeared in an episode of the hit television drama Dynasty to underscore support for the anti-drug campaign.
She started her campaign for the presidency at the beginning of 1999 after President Martti Ahtisaari announced that he would not stand for a second term in the office.
She believed that their actions were in fact harming women's chances of gaining the vote, as they were alienating the MPs who were debating whether or not to give women the vote, as well as souring much of the general public towards the campaign.
She joined the presidential campaign of close friend Robert F. Kennedy, and heard the shots when he was assassinated on June 5, 1968.
She also provided her mother-in-law, Isabel, with information on the progress of Edward's campaign to regain the throne: it was she, for example, who replied to Isabel's questions over alleged disrespectful treatment of the Earl of Warwick, by explaining that Edward had " heard that nobody in the city believed that Warwick and his brother were dead, so he had their bodies brought to St Paul's where they were laid out and uncovered from the chest upwards in the sight of everybody.
She was born in Gia-Dinh ( a former name for Saigon ), French Indochina ( now Vietnam ), after her parents responded to a campaign by the French government encouraging people to work in the colony.
* Jack Yellen, songwriter, Legendary songs, " Ain't She Sweet " and the Franklin D. Roosevelt campaign tune " Happy Days Are Here Again "
She was eventually invited to organize a fund-raising dinner for the 1972 presidential campaign of U. S. Senator Ed Muskie of Maine.
She has the distinction of contributing the most among members of Congress to other congressional campaigns because she is in a safe district and does not need the campaign funds.
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