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Hiring the wife for one's company may win her tax-aided retirement income.
Leila Lopes, Miss Angola 2011, was crowned Miss Universe 2011 in Brazil on 12 September 2011 making her the first Angolan to win the pageant.
Alpheus, a river god, was in love with Artemis, but he realizes that he can do nothing to win her heart.
* Pseudolus: A Roman slave, owned by Hero, who seeks to win his / her freedom by helping his / her young master win the heart of Philia.
But in her effort to win Bulgaria for the Central Powers, and seeing the inevitability of Ottoman disintegration, was toying with the idea of replacing the Balkan area of the Ottomans with a friendly Greater Bulgaria in her San Stefano borders — an idea that was based on the German origin of the Bulgarian King and his anti-Russian sentiments.
Clint Black's album " Nothin ' but the Taillights " includes the song " Ode to Chet ," which includes the lines "' Cause I can win her over like Romeo did Juliet, if I can only show her I can almost pick that legato lick like Chet " and " It'll take more than Mel Bay 1, 2, & 3 if I'm ever gonna play like CGP.
* 1909 – Selma Lagerlöf became the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature " in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception that characterize her writings ".
Apollo chased her, and in order to win her favours turned himself into a tortoise, of which the girls made a pet.
After her Gold Medal win in 1992 the Amsterdam unemployment benefits office terminated her dole on grounds that she might earn money from her victory in the future.
There is, however, no " post " that the winning candidate must pass in order to win, as the winning candidate is required only to have received the highest number of votes in his or her favour.
* 1940 – For her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind, Hattie McDaniel becomes the first African American to win an Academy Award.
In 1969, Lucas married film editor Marcia Lou Griffin, who went on to win an Academy Award for her editing work on the original Star Wars film.
Going into the last round Polgár needed only a draw to achieve the GM title, but she won her game against GM Tibor Tolnai to win first place with six points in nine games.
She secured a clear third place with a 21-move win over Shirov in her last game.
She did not win her first game until the 11th round and finished with 5 points in 13 games, tied with Victor Korchnoi for 11 – 12 position among the fourteen GMs.

win and favors
This arrangement strongly favors large and well – organized political parties which are able to appeal to voters in many districts and hence win many seats, and discourages smaller or regional parties.
This puts the plans and dreams of Rougon's friends in limbo, as they are counting on his political influence to win various personal favors.
"), individuals against groups ( e. g., " I failed because our school favors boys "), groups against individuals ( e. g., " Jane was the reason our team didn't win "), and groups against groups ( e. g., " Immigrants are taking all of the jobs ").
He tries to win Alisoun's sexual favors by singing love songs under her window during the full moon and taking a part in the local play to try to get her attention.
In 2005, the New York Daily News reported that incumbent New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a liberal Republican who favors abortion rights and same-sex marriage, was seeking to revive the Liberal Party – and thereby run on a " Republican / Liberal " ticket – in an effort to win over Democratic voters in the overwhelmingly Democratic city.
This game heavily favors the starting player, who will always win the three-seed to six-seed versions with perfect play.
Mai ’ s is designed as a beautiful female who uses her charm and appearance to win favors from men.

win and husband
* First female author to win Best Play: Frances Goodrich with her partner ( and husband ) Albert Hackett for The Diary of Anne Frank in 1956 ; Wendy Wasserstein for The Heidi Chronicles in 1989 was the first solo winner.
Most striking among the stories include the countess of Cellant seeking vengeance on one lover by means of others ( part 1, story 4 ), two whores seeking to win their husbands back ( part 1, story 17 ), two brother thieves in cahoots to rob the treasures of the king of Egypt ( part 1, story 23 ), a disdained lover voluntarily choosing to live inside a cave ( part 1, story 25 ), a woman killing herself only out of fear that her good fortune will turn bad ( part 1, story 48 ), Filippo Lippi, released from slavery in Africa because of his talent as a celebrated painter ( part 1, story 50 ), a woman disdaining a man and then killing herself when he no longer pursues her ( part 2, story 16 ), an abbot making music from a chorus of pigs ( part 2, story 23 ), an adulterous lover buried alive and then saved ( part 3, story 1 ), a merchant's murder of another ( part 4, story 1 ), a case of double adultery whereby each husband cuckolds the other ( part 4, story 11 ), and two women yelling at each other after being falsely told they are hard of hearing ( part 4, story 21 ).
She and her husband began racing Thoroughbreds in 1954 and would win major races such as the 1959 Coronation Cup with Nagami and that year's Irish Oaks with Discorea.
After helping her husband to win the governorship of Georgia in 1970, Carter decided to focus her attention on the field of mental health as First Lady of Georgia.
In the meantime, Stifler arranges the party for everyone at Jim's house except Jim, who unknowingly has arranged a ' special dinner ' for Michelle's parents before the wedding to explain why he will be a good husband and finally win them over.
She was known to have said that " the South did not have the material resources to win the war and white Southerners did not have the qualities necessary to win it ; that her husband was unsuited for political life ; that maybe women were not the inferior sex ; and that perhaps it was a mistake to deny women the suffrage before the war.
Heedless to all threats against herself, left alone as the only Western woman in an absolute and anti-Christian monarchy at war with the West, beset with raging fevers and nursing a tiny baby that her husband had not yet seen, she rushed from office to office in desperate attempts to keep her husband alive and win his freedom.
Acting Governor Roger B. Wilson announced that he would appoint Jean Carnahan if her husband were to win the election posthumously.
Toward the end of the series Eric's wife Heidi arrives in Niagara in an attempt to win back her husband.
Griffin occasionally tried to win Erica's affections, but they decided just to remain friends when in the fourth and final season, Darien Sills-Evans portrayed Darien Evans, Erica's fiancé / husband.
Tory also campaigned prominently with Flaherty's wife Christine Elliott in the provincial by-election held March 30, enabling her to win the seat formerly held by her husband.
Biographer John Hawkins writes she eventually helped her husband win election in a Halifax riding with a significant Irish Catholic population.
James Soong leader of the PFP, was quoted earlier as stating that he was willing to have the KMT win all of the seats in the pan-blue coalition if this was necessary to keep the pan-blue in power, whereas the TSU actively campaigned for a large number of seats and in some cases sharply criticized the DPP, and Lee Teng-hui urged the husband from each household to vote for DPP, and the wife to vote for TSU so both parties would have equal representation.
On one occasion, he did win a case ( his client had allegedly murdered her husband with an axe ), but only because the jury cared more about what the woman wore than whether or not she was innocent ( at one point, she found a plastic knife and supposedly tried to make a fillet out of a CNN cameraman ).
Young men are there, hoping to father a child or to win a woman away from her husband.
" In between his drag performances, his days as a hustler and his convictions of murder, his image as the legendary cabaret performance artist Madame Satã meaning Madam Satan having been influenced by the 1930s film by Cecil B. DeMille about a woman disguising herself as a notorious temptress to win back her errant husband.
* Lex Lang — Anime voice actor and husband of Sandy Fox ; he appeared on June 26, 2002 ( under the name " Alexis " Lang ), but did not win his game.
Queen Isabella, Edward ’ s French wife, vainly tries everything to win him back from his lover, but she is mercilessly rejected by her husband.
Later, he kills an opponent in self defence in a fencing competition that was intended to be non-lethal, but became a duel after he coerced his opponent's wife to have sex with him in exchange for throwing the match and allowing her husband to win.
Unable to cope with the thought of her husband falling for this younger woman, she decides to use a love charm on him, a magic potion that will win him back.
One caller was told she would win the tickets if she could ( falsely ) tell her husband that he was not actually the father of their 9-year-old son.
As soon after that, her husband walks in and she lies to him, which gets Sylvester to think she should win an Oscar for her acting.

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