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She witnessed inoculation being practiced by physicians in Istanbul, and was greatly impressed: she had lost a brother to smallpox and bore facial scars from the disease herself.
She coordinated this as a result of her many trips abroad where she witnessed how literacy benefited children in poorer nations.
She surely witnessed an improved Oman since the last time she visited the country as the Sultanate was ranked the most improved nation in the past 40 years ( 1970-2010 ) by the UNDP just a few weeks prior to her visit.
She was gang-raped by six government soldiers, and witnessed seven executions before being sold to a Sudanese Arab.
She helped to popularise the practice of variolation ( an early type of immunisation ), which had been witnessed by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Charles Maitland in Constantinople.
She was appalled by the conditions she witnessed first-hand in the Manchester workhouse: Pankhurst immediately began to change these conditions, and established herself as a successful voice of reform on the Board of Guardians.
She witnessed the tumultuous celebrations on the Rue de Rivoli when the Armistice was signed, and she cared for war refugees ; seeing them displaced and in a state of shock, she wrote, " helped me understand the plight of refugees in Miami sixty years later ".
She got the idea from her father, who had witnessed hangings when he lived in the West and was unnerved by the creaking sound of the rope bearing the weight of the hanging body.
She witnessed her mother's emotional unraveling that caused her to be institutionalized, and even long after her mother returned to live with her, she exhibited bizarre, childlike behaviors.
She worked as a market researcher in Watts and witnessed the riots in the summer of 1965.
She returned to France, became a nurse and witnessed the country fall to the Germans.
As the Victorian scholar Patrick Brantlinger notes in his introduction to She: " Little that Haggard witnessed matched the romantic depictions of ' the dark continent ' in boys ' adventure novels, in the press, and even in such bestselling explorers ' journals as David Livingstone's Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa ( 1857 ).
She attended Black Bolt's release from his isolation cell at the age of eighteen, and witnessed the first confrontation between Black Bolt and his insane brother Maximus the Mad.
She contracted and survived smallpox in 1720, and two years later her mother helped to popularise the practice of variolation ( an early type of immunisation against smallpox ), which had been witnessed by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Charles Maitland in Constantinople.
She also learns a little bit more about Henchard, specifically, the details of how he sold his first wife become public knowledge when the furmity vendor who witnessed the sale makes the story public.
She said she witnessed Trinidad ordering a subordinate to collect a ransom payment for the kidnapped former mayor of Valledupar, Elías Ochoa, in 1998.
She stopped briefly in England, then visited her mother in France, and then travelled on to Iceland where she witnessed the eruption of Mount Hekla.
She witnessed his assassination the following year.
She was moved to take action by the poverty she witnessed during a trip to Puerto Rico in 1946.
She seemed somewhat taken with him as well, at least until she witnessed him brutally subduing Othar Tryggvassen ( though when the self-proclaimed hero tried to kill her after she helped him escape, she decided she owed Gil an apology ).
She considers herself responsible for the welfare of the Syndicate as a whole because she has witnessed ( and reversed ) their deaths and severe injuries on multiple occasions.
She does not wish for her son to know the horror she has witnessed.
She played the role of the warm-hearted aunt of a young deaf girl who witnessed a murder.
She tells the others Jack stayed behind to aid their escape, unaware Will witnessed their encounter.

She and rise
She pulled her legs up under her, to rise, her full peasant skirt drawing up her thighs, and Feathertop's music pfffted away.
She doesn't rise to being heckled at all ; she just pretends it must be an oversight on the part of the people doing it.
She detested Carr, but she encouraged the rise of Villiers, whom James knighted in her bedchamber ; and she developed friendly relations with him, calling him her " dog.
She too focuses on the closure of the theatres on 23 June 1592, arguing, like Oliver, that the play must have been written prior to June 1592 for it to have given rise to A Shrew.
She would often arise covered in cinders, giving rise to the mocking nickname " Cinderella ".
She was instrumental in founding the German Green Party, the first Green party to rise to prominence worldwide.
She was originally thought to have nine heads, and any neck, if severed, would give rise to two more heads, her ninth head was immortal.
She remembers how Henry fell in love with her, and how her relatives ( and certain of Henry's councillors like Thomas Cromwell, Bishop Stephen Gardiner, and others ), schemed to bring about the downfall of Anne Boleyn and the subsequent rise of Jane.
She tells him that he will not be defeated unless the very trees of Spider's Web forest rise against the castle.
She helped resolve the strike, which resulted in a pay rise for Ford's female workers bringing them to 92 % of what the men received.
She came on foot from nearby Diest, which gave rise to the foot-pilgrimages that still survive from places as distant as Maastricht and Bergen op Zoom.
In fact, the first season that Lansbury served as executive producer saw another rise in the ratings, as Murder, She Wrote ended the season in the top five for the first time since 1988.
She presided over the RIAA during the period of when the rise of the Internet notably conflicted with the established Recording Industry interests.
She returned to Hollywood in the 1950s, and her film star began to rise.
Riza was " seconded to the State Department ", or placed on " external assignment ," assigned " a job at the state department under Liz Cheney, the daughter of the vice-president, promoting democracy in the Middle East ..." She " was also moved up to a managerial pay grade in compensation for the disruption to her career ," resulting in a raise of over $ 60, 000, as well as guarantees of future increases ; " The staff association claims that the pay rise was more than double the amount allowed under employee guidelines.
She vividly chronicled his rise to the presidency.
She famously said at the time of her election, ' stop the world, Scotland wants to get on ', and her presence at Westminster proved to be a real focus for the SNP with a significant rise in membership being the result.
She went into exile, to Germany, in 1908 after publishing " Finland and Socialism ", which called on the Finnish people to rise up against oppression within the Russian Empire.
She writes, " The female earth was central to organic cosmology that was undermined by the Scientific Revolution and the rise of a market-oriented culture ... for sixteenth-century Europeans the root metaphor binding together the self, society and the cosmos was that of an organism ... organismic theory emphasized interdependence among the parts of the human body, subordination of individual to communal purposes in family, community, and state, and vital life permeate the cosmos to the lowliest stone.
She felt that children allowed to develop according to their inner laws of development would give rise to a more peaceful and enduring civilization.
She, along with her friends, Darren Patterson, Dodie Bishop and Macie Lightfoot, all try to rise from the position of school geeks as they solve many conflicts that come their way.
She was later buried at the Monastery of Alcobaça where her coffin can still be seen, opposite Peter's so that, according to the legend, at the Last Judgment Peter and Inês can look at each other as they rise from their graves.
She performed with Maud Gonne in several plays at the newly established Abbey Theatre, an institution that played an important part in the rise of cultural nationalism.
She contributed greatly to her husband's rise to office, balancing his natural shyness with her own outgoing style, though he never discussed politics with her.

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