One day, in a meeting with the team, she was in the middle of a sentence when the boss rudely cut her off and took over.
Despite her having decades of experience in the field, the new boss talked down to her, over-explained things, offered unwanted lectures, frequently cut her off and contradicted what she said in meetings.
Her marriage to neurosurgeon Paulo Niemeyer, nephew of Brazil's legendary late architect Oscar Niemeyer, and subsequent move to Rio cut her off from her landscaping clients, but Niemeyer wasn't one to stay home.
And yet, within an hour she was live on CNN explaining away the pepper-spray incident to host Don Lemon, who had to cut her off a few times because her responses were so long-winded.
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He alleged that he also cut of the tip off her small finger during a visit with Mr Wade and then returned alone later and cut off her thumb.
But Coats boasted to a cellmate in prison that he smothered her, cut off her head and burnt her remains in a furnace.
The two men burned her with an iron, hit her with a golf club and crushed her toes, cut off her thumb and severed her pinkie finger.
"They say that she really pulled away from her friends, that she cut off contact with them, and she also cut off contact with her family members which her friends had been in contact with, " she reported.
She had the tip of her pinkie finger cut off and her thumb and her toe crushed.
It is claimed they murdered her after torturing her to obtain financial information and then cut off her head and disposed of her body.
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Under cross-examination at the High Court in Glasgow, Parker said that Ms Spence had the tip of her pinkie finger cut off along with her thumb.
They said they covered Ms Chavez's face in sticky tape until she suffocated and cut off her hand to make her murder look like a gangland execution.
She spoke of the Amazon woman who would cut off her right breast so that it did not get in the way of her bow, and whose prowess was commemorated by statues in the temple.
It is claimed they cut off her thumb, crushed her toe, burned her with an iron, severed the tip of her little finger and beat her with a golf club to extract financial information from her.
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Avice is cut off from her old contacts and the similes have disbanded.
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Kate Hudson, rumored to have gained 60 pounds when she was pregnant, wore a sheer Chanel blouse and floor-length skirt cut to show off her four-month-expecting physique at the 2003 Venice Film Festival.
It is alleged that during the fortnight she was held hostage, Ms Spence was burned with cigarettes and an iron, was thrashed on the legs with a golf club and had her thumb cut off.
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Cut off from her trust fund (her dad was jailed for running a Ponzi scheme), Caroline seems helpless at first, but her entitlement turns out to be a kind of superpower she believes that she and Max deserve a better life.
Jurors heard that during the first few days of her being held in the attic of the flat, Ms Spence told the witness that Coats had cut off the tip of her pinkie finger and crushed her little toe with loppers, which Mr Wade had brought with him in a bag.
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Cut off from politics by her house arrest, Miss Suu Kyi is anyway barred from office as the widow of a foreigner.
Mrs Gilks has cut five minutes off each leg of her journey by using wheels.
She wanted to dig down to the raw shame of this failure in Hilda, this thing inside her, poisoning everything, cut off and spoiled and shrivelled up.
Radwanska dropped a hand off of her racket and cut a slice down the line.
Among the other acts, Amy Winehouse made an appearance in her trademark white vest top and cut-off jeans.
In the process, she gains a deeper understanding of the parts of herself that had been "cut off" by social rules and her own acquiescence in their logic.
The similarity makes you wonder, if her film-making had not been abruptly cut off in its youth, whether she would indeed have evolved much further as an artist.
It is also claimed the men cut off Ms Spence's head before disposing of her body.
Her parents, worried that they would also be cut off from their grandson, agreed to perform community service.
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