The Canadian dominatrix Terri-Jean Bedford, who was one of three women who initiated an application in the Ontario Superior Court seeking invalidation of Canada's laws regarding brothels, sought to differentiate for clarity her occupation as a dominatrix rather than a prostitute to the media, due to frequent misunderstanding and conflation by the public of the two terms.

East Germany was an Eastern bloc state under political and military control of the Soviet Union through her occupation forces and the Warsaw Treaty.

In November 2009, Hezbollah pressured a private English-language school to drop excerpts from The Diary of Anne Frank, a book of the writings from the diary kept by the Jewish child Anne Frank while she was in hiding with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, after Hezbollah's Al-Manar television channel complained, asking how long Lebanon would " remain an open arena for the Zionist invasion of education "?

It was while she was being entertained by Louis, whose troops occupied Milan, that she offered asylum to Milanese refugees including Cecilia Gallerani, the refined mistress of her sister Beatrice's husband, Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan, who had been forced to leave his duchy in the wake of French occupation.

At the end of nine months he was set free by the clergy ; but a matron named Lucina having had her house on the Via Lata consecrated by him as " titulus Marcelli " he was again condemned to the work of attending to the horses brought into the station, in which menial occupation he died.

Anthony's first occupation inspired her to fight for wages equivalent to those of male teachers, since men earned roughly four times more than women for the same duties.

Ann soon finds out how dangerous her husband's occupation is, but she promises Gunner that she will stick to her man.

While being booked into jail, she listed her occupation as " Urban Guerilla " and asked her attorney to relay the following message: " Tell everybody that I'm smiling, that I feel free and strong and I send my greetings and love to all the sisters and brothers out there.

Following the disastrous Marco Polo Bridge Incident on July 7, 1937 and the Japanese occupation of Shanghai and takeover of the Chinese movie industry, Jiang left her celebrity life on the stage behind.

On 28 April Poincaré sent Clemenceau a long letter detailing why he thought Allied occupation should continue until Germany had paid all her reparations.

She refused to have her gallblader extracted or to give up her occupation as cook, maintaining stubbornly that she did not carry any disease.

On February 19, 1910, Mallon agreed that she " prepared to change her occupation ( that of a cook ), and would give assurance by affidavit that she would upon her release take such hygienic precautions as would protect those with whom she came in contact, from infection ".

Mallon changed her name to Mary Brown, and returned to her previous occupation as a cook.

Gimbutas lived through great turmoil in her homeland during the Second World War, which was under successive Soviet and Nazi occupation from 1940 – 1941 and 1941 – 1943, respectively.

According to Cassius Dio, Boudica's forces impaled Roman captives during her rebellion against the Roman occupation, to the accompaniment of revelry and sacrifices in the sacred groves of Andate.

" The Spanish American War had paralyzed the trade of the Island of Puerto Rico and when Spain surrendered the sovereignty she closed her ports to Puerto Rican products, while the American occupation of Cuba destroyed the only other important market.

Andraste, also known as Andrasta or Andred, was, according to the Roman historian Dio Cassius, an Icenic war goddess invoked by Boudica in her fight against the Roman occupation of Britain in AD 60.

Joseph Chamberlain at his desk at the Colonial Office The seizure of Kiaochow by Germany in November 1897 and Russia's occupation of Port Arthur signalled a scramble for western control of China that threatened British domination of China's foreign trade and control of her tariffs.

Indeed, much confusion occurred with subsequent generations ; the identity of Bast slowly merged among the Greeks during their occupation of Egypt, who sometimes named her Ailuros ( Greek for cat ), thinking of Bast as a version of Artemis, their own moon goddess.

During the German occupation of France during World War II she would make Buenos Aires her home.

The economic achievements of Cyprus during the preceding decades have been significant, bearing in mind the severe economic and social dislocation created by the Turkish invasion of 1974 and the continuing occupation of the northern part of the island by Turkey.

" During the Nazi occupation of France, Cocteau's friend Arno Breker convinced him that Adolf Hitler was a pacifist and patron of the arts with France's best interests in mind.

Descartes believed that thought ( subjectivity ) was the essence of the mind, and that extension ( the occupation of space ) was the essence of matter.

Ideas of reflection and the workings of imagination are blended in the term merencolie, embodying for contemporaries " a tendency ", observes Huizinga, " to identify all serious occupation of the mind with sadness ".

Richard attempted to learn the way in which the human mind works and it became an all-consuming occupation.

The alleged atrocities committed by the Greek army during the Greek occupation of Western Anatolia ( 1919 – 1922 ) left a lasting impression on the Turkish mind.

An exercise long used among Christians for acquiring contemplation, one that is " available to everyone, whether he be of the clergy or of any secular occupation ", is that of focusing the mind by constant repetition a phrase or word.

Frank's already budding literary ambitions were galvanized on 29 March 1944 when she heard a broadcast made by the exiled Dutch Minister for Education, Art and Science, Gerrit Bolkestein, calling for the preservation of " ordinary documents — a diary, letters ... simple everyday material " to create an archive for posterity as testimony to the suffering of civilians during the Nazi occupation, and on 20 May notes that she has started re-drafting her diary with future readers in mind.

It was not a part of any one of the three ( later four ) zones for occupation by Soviet, American, British, and French troops respectively.

The other bill, by Sen. A. M. Aikin Jr. of Paris, would relieve real estate brokers, who pay their own annual licensing fee, from the $12 annual occupation license on brokers in such as stocks and bonds.

The Washington state supreme court ruled that the state's occupation tax applied to sales, made at cost to an oil company, by a wholly-owned subsidiary set up to purchase certain supplies without divulging the identity of the parent.

`` I would far rather die after a Russian occupation of this country -- by some deliberate act of refusal -- than die uselessly by atomisation ''.

On September 13, 1861, in view of the decision of the Kentucky legislature to side with the Union after the occupation of Columbus by Polk, Johnston ordered Brig.

The plague that carries people off unexpectedly echoes the reality of the occupation, in which people could be snatched from their homes by the Gestapo and imprisoned or sent to work as slave labor in German-controlled territories or simply killed.

Not only was his Belgian nationality interesting because of Belgium's occupation by Germany ( which provided a valid explanation of why such a skilled detective would be out of work and available to solve mysteries at an English country house ), but also at the time of Christie's writing, it was considered patriotic to express sympathy with the Belgians, since the invasion of their country had constituted Britain's casus belli for entering World War I, and British wartime propaganda emphasized the " Rape of Belgium ".

Armenia labor force by occupation ( 2006 est.

In this scheme, people would be represented in government by a party or organization that defended the interests of their particular occupation or industry, not a particular ideology.

These states are labeled by a set of quantum numbers summarized in the term symbol and usually associated with particular electron configurations, i. e., by occupation schemes of atomic orbitals ( e. g., 1s < sup > 2 </ sup > 2s < sup > 2 </ sup > 2p < sup > 6 </ sup > for the ground state of neon -- term symbol: < sup > 1 </ sup > S < sub > 0 </ sub >).

Bloch was shot by the Gestapo during the German occupation of France in World War II for his active membership of the French Resistance, and Febvre carried on the Annales approach in the 1940s and 1950s.

* 1941 – Tallinn, the Capital of Estonia is occupied by Nazi Germany following an occupation by the Soviet Union.

Following the 1979 invasion and occupation of Afghanistan by Soviet troops, Massoud devised a strategic plan for expelling the invaders and overthrowing the communist regime.

The name, origin, birth date, and occupation were released by the FBI, but the picture was not of him.

* 1945 – The Nazi occupation army surrenders and leaves Northern Italy after a general partisan insurrection by the Italian resistance movement ; the puppet fascist regime dissolves and Benito Mussolini tries to escape.

The occupation of these facilities in October 1943 was codenamed Operation Alacrity by the British.

In 1911, Italy launched an invasion of Tripolitania, which was quickly followed by the occupation of the Dodecanese Islands.

* Lists of people by occupation

The resident population at this time was generally speaking Brythonic — the insular variety of continental Celtic which was influenced by occupation by the Romans.

Werner E. Lemke and Kathleen O ’ Connor point out “ Lamentations is probably the work of a survivor ( or survivors ) of the nation ’ s destruction who poured out sorrow, anger and dismay after the city ’ s traumatic defeat and occupation by the Babylonians.

For example, he approved of the occupation of Egypt by British forces in 1882.