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She noted: " Humanitarian politics came early into my life: seeing my father on a soapbox protesting Mussolini's invasion of Abyssinia ; my father and sister both on soap-boxes protesting Britain's lack of support for Spain ; my mother canvasing long before those events for the League of Nations Union ; and all three of them working on behalf of the German and Austrian refugees from 1933 onwards … I used to sell the Daily Worker house-to-house in the working class streets of Ilford Lane ".
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She and noted
She arrived late and as she entered the party, noted that gentlemen seemed to be in the majority ; ;
She noted that no student had been withdrawn through loss of confidence ; ;
She is also the only one in Poirot's universe to have noted that " It ’ s not natural for five or six people to be on the spot when B is murdered and all have a motive for killing B.
She noted that he " was a scientist.
She noted that when she visited the police station they had photographs of Echols, Baldwin, and Misskelley on the wall and were using them as dart targets.
She is noted for numerous series of books based on recurring characters and designed for different age groups.
She recalls " being here and then not here " and having no identity of herself ; it should be noted that it is claimed she also suffered from what was formerly called " Multiple Personality Disorder ".
She noted his " sense of utter fairness in minutest details ".
She noted that they produced an extraordinary wealth of information on German war plans but next to nothing on the repeated question of British penetration of Russian intelligence in either London or Moscow.
She was one of the first filmmakers to use tracking shots in a documentary, placing a camera on rails to follow the athletes ' movement, and she is noted for the slow motion shots included in the film.
She continued to act in the theatre for most of her career, and became noted for her portrayal of Nora in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, but became wider known once she started to work with eminent Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman.
" She was also a believer and a practitioner of magic, performing curses against those whom she felt deserved it: as Ronald Hutton noted, " Once she carried out a ritual to blast a fellow academic whose promotion she believed to have been undeserved, by mixing up ingredients in a frying pan in the presence of two colleagues.
She noted that there are those who would argue that " the Pagan community is one of the only spiritual communities that is exploring humor, joy, abandonment, even silliness and outrageousness as valid parts of spiritual experience.
She was also noted for her wit ; among her numerous sayings and quips are " Much more genius is needed to make love than to command armies " and " We should take care to lay in a stock of provisions, but not of pleasures: these should be gathered day by day.
She was even noted as a " pittoressa ", a paintress, on her death certificate.
She also successfully sued MCA / Decca with the assistance of noted entertainment attorney Cy Godfrey.
She noted that although most people " hold their belief in reincarnation quite lightly " and were unclear on the details of their ideas, personal experiences such as past-life memories and near-death experiences had influenced most believers, although only a few had direct experience of these phenomena.
She enjoyed the class and took another anthropology course with Alexander Goldenweiser, a student of noted anthropologist Franz Boas.
She noted " It would make me high, I would feel endorphins and this great sense of victory.
She has been noted for her ethereal visual style and symbolic lyrics.
She is noted for being one of the first well-known female gamers.
She noted that if such stones were broken open they often contained fossilised fish bones and scales, and sometimes bones from small ichthyosaurs.
She noted, " it would be unfair to tell students that there is a serious dispute going on among scientists whether evolution took place.
" She further noted that " a lot of the time the creationists ... they'll search through scientific journals and try to pull out something they think demonstrates evolution doesn't work and there is a kind of interesting rationale behind it.
She is particularly noted for her roles in the screwball comedies of the 1930s.
She and Humanitarian
She received a Special Academy Award, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, in 1972.
She was honored in 1969 with an Academy Award as the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award recipient for her volunteer efforts and services to the troops.
" She is the former Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Values and Diplomacy for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.
She worked as a special assistant to the Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs.
She has been honoured for her work on behalf of children from the United Way of Ottawa-Carleton, and through receipt of the Canadian Volunteer Award and the Norma V. Bowen Humanitarian Award of the Ontario Psychological Foundation.
She was also the Vice President of Humanitarian Assistance for the Women and Children of Afghanistan.
She also received the Humanitarian Award from the National Recreation and Park Association in 1972 and the Conservation Service Award from the U. S. Department of the Interior in 1973.
She is the recipient of the Minnie Pearl Humanitarian Award, and the Harvard AIDS Institute Leadership Award for this work.
She has also received a Top Ten Outstanding Kentuckians Award ; and the Humanitarian Service Award from the United Cerebral Palsy Association.
She works in humanitarian relief, and is the patron of various humanitarian organizations including Lifeline Humanitarian Organization.
She and politics
She became involved in politics in Tiberius ’ imperial court, became an advocate for her sons to succeed Tiberius, and opposed Tiberius ’ natural son and natural grandson Tiberius Gemellus for succession.
She retired from politics at the 2010 general election.
She has uncovered the politics behind the New York City Greenmarket, and was among the first to publish a long-form article in a major American newspaper about Ferran Adria of El Bulli.
She is best remembered as a leader in the fight for women's right to vote, as a co-editor of the radical arts and politics magazine The Liberator, and as a co-founder of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
She has also “ been responsible for the production of some twenty-two books … and at least five hundred articles .” “ Rosemary Ruether has written on the question of Christian credibility, with particular attention to ecclesiology and its engagement with church-world conflicts ; Jewish-Christian relations …; politics and religion in America ; and Feminism.
She commissioned Bernard Crick, a left-wing professor of politics at the University of London, to complete a biography and asked Orwell's friends to co-operate.
She commenced to play an increasingly important role in Italian politics, steadily advancing Mantua's position.
She rarely interfered with politics, preferring to devote her time and energies to her family, charities and the more social side of her position.
She's a very stoic, hardy person full of joy and excitement for life ... She is not without opinions on politics and political types these days ... She is, as most of her friends described her, a pistol.
She was educated at Stradbroke Primary and Pembroke School and, later, the University of Adelaide where she graduated B. A .. She was active in student politics, becoming president of the Students ' Association of the University of Adelaide ( SAUA ) and serving as state women's officer for the National Union of Students in South Australia.
She labeled identity politics and political correctness in general as totalitarian.
She was not intuitive in the ways of politics and not competent in this area.
She was active in student politics and served as the Social Affairs Secretary and Organization Secretary of the National Union of Students from 1969 to 1970.
She became acquainted with the world of Finnish politics and government and her political career took a great step forward, as she went on to hold a number of public offices.
She played a small role in politics, but became the iconic symbol of the nation, the empire, and proper, restrained behaviour.
" She cites the goals of feminist criticism as: ( 1 ) To develop and uncover a female tradition of writing, ( 2 ) to interpret symbolism of women's writing so that it will not be lost or ignored by the male point of view, ( 3 ) to rediscover old texts, ( 4 ) to analyze women writers and their writings from a female perspective, ( 5 ) to resist sexism in literature, and ( 6 ) to increase awareness of the sexual politics of language and style.
She demonstrated an independent streak and a willingness to use factional Scottish politics in her conflicts with James over the custody of Prince Henry and his treatment of her friend Beatrix Ruthven.
She was regarded as a virtuous woman and never interfered in politics.
She loved painting and politics and served as a stabilizing influence throughout their enduring marriage ; they had three children: David, Jane, and Mary.
She is shown to have a strong grasp of politics, which may seem unlikely, but this answers the facts of the annulment and the even more unlikely fact that Anne of Cleves survived her marriage to Henry.
She took an active role in politics and policy, unlike the quiet presence of Martha Washington.
Usually everything went fairly smooth until the subject of politics was brought up, and then it was not at all unusual for one well-known matron to leave the store in a “ huff .” She and her husband always kept separate accounts, and quite a bit of bickering was done between them, regarding who would by what, and how much.
She has also directed the University's program on women in global politics.
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