Sentences with phrase «iron lady»

It was that very combination of her gender and her brutal attitude to politics which constituted her image as the famous iron lady.

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Streep won that year for her stirring portrayal of Margaret Thatcher in Iron Lady.)

Streep has previously won eight Golden Globes, including Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture — Drama for Iron Lady in 2012 and Sophie's Choice in 1983.

A former minister under Margaret Thatcher then in John Major's cabinet, Gillian Shephard has written The Real Iron Lady: Working with Margaret Thatcher (Biteback Publishing # 16.99), which draws upon the memories of a wide range of people who worked with her at all levels.

These free enterprise, tax free, zones were an idea copied from Britain's iron lady Margaret Thatcher... a very conservative lady.

The so - called Iron Lady, who was prime minister from 1979 to 1990 and now sits in the House of Lords, has suffered from a series of small strokes in recent years.

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She made her first steps in the competitive scene by participating in an online female - only tournament, the NESL Iron Lady, becoming champion of those cups twice in a row in autumn of 2011.

Years ago I read an article on how the 2012 Oscars would be about the battle between Glenn Close and Meryl Streep, for Albert Nobbs and The Iron Lady respectively.

It is exactly a month today since Margaret Thatcher's private secretary Lord Powell kick - started a very Conservative row about whether Iron Lady would have settled for David Cameron's EU reforms package.

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Meryl Streep's longtime publicist gave the Huffington Post a written statement regarding her August: Osage County and The Iron Lady collaborator.

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(The Last King of Scotland and The Iron Lady come to mind.)

However impressive Meryl Streep's transformation was in Iron Lady» the truth is that her performance in August... rises way above that role.

There are plenty of books about Thatcher herself, but former minister Gillian Shephard has drawn upon the experiences of ministers, researchers and staff in The Real Iron Lady: Working with Mrs T (Biteback, # 20).

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Scarlet began playing Starcraft II in April 2011, and quickly joined a female - only league called the NESL Iron Lady and won two tournaments that same year a just a few months later.

After appearing in films like Albert Nobbs with Glenn Close and The Iron Lady with Meryl Streep (she'll next be in the Han Solo Star Wars spinoff movie), Waller - Bridge, she wrote the one - woman play that served as inspiration for Fleabag, which ended ip premiering its first season on Amazon in July of 2016.

Katinka Hosszu, the «Iron Lady» swimmer from Hungary, shattered a world record and won three gold plus one silver medal at the Rio Olympics.

Born and educated in the former East Germany and a united Germany's chancellor since 2005, Merkel is perhaps the best - known female world leader since Britain's Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher — with whom she's often compared.

In her pursuit of these objectives the Iron Lady became Britain's first prime minister to be elected for three consecutive terms, to retain this office for over ten consecutive years, and to have an «ism» named after her.

She set the standard for modern women in politics with her strong will and firm resolve that earned her the nickname «The Iron Lady.»

America's «Iron Lady» of religious freedom and her staff are the U.S. State Department magazine's «Office of the Month».

The U.K. has named a new prime minister, and she's the first woman to hold that office since the Iron Lady herself, Margaret Thatcher.

«They called Margaret Thatcher the «iron lady,»» the Rev. Suzan Johnson Cook said Tuesday in an address to a dinner of religious liberty advocates.

She was called «La Popessa,» depicted as the iron lady of the Vatican, and said to have wielded more power in Rome than any woman in centuries.

After fleeing to the United States for several years, she returned to Liberia to run for the office of president against Charles Taylor, a man who has since been convicted of war crimes.She lost that election, but through the campaigning process became known as Liberia's Iron Lady.

Now the Iron Lady has finally been laid to rest such debates will fade away, making her legacy more and more the focus of historians.

After MPs were relatively reserved in their criticism of the Iron Lady (Glenda Jackson being the obvious exception) last week, it will be interesting to see how long it will be before Westminster descends into its usual childish game of cheap shots and name calling.

The battle over Margaret Thatcher's legacy continued today as Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson put pen to paper to insist that the Iron Lady would have agreed with all their major policy positions.

Fox, who attended Margaret Thatcher's funeral earlier this month, will use the spike of enthusiasm for the Iron Lady's approach to politics to call for a return to a similar approach today.

For all its experimentation, The Iron Lady was particularly guilty of this: She's in the Falklands, the IRA are bombing London, it's the miner's strike, she's being thrown out of power.

While Farage looked to the past, Johnson was looking to the present in an article which imagined which policies the Iron Lady would currently be supporting.

She scooped the best actress Oscar in 2012 for her portrayal of former Tory Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady.

The general consensus across the political spectrum seems to be that whatever you think of the film, Meryl Streep has done a brilliant job of capturing Margaret Thatcher on screen in The Iron Lady.

But that clip of her denting the Iron Lady's armour lives on, as will Austin's verbal onslaught against the hitherto invincible first minister.

European leaders and their advisers have been left in no doubt about Theresa May's «Iron Lady» stance on Brexit negotiations.

How would the Iron Lady have handled UKIP?

Apparently the iron lady glided past us and whispered «Good evening».

Known as Liberia's Iron Lady, President Sirleaf built her credibility over years.

Unsatisfied by the UK government's version of events, Mrs Gould refused to be overawed by the Iron Lady and persisted in her questions.

When she was first dubbed «The Iron Lady», by Pravda of all places, she responded, «The Iron Lady?