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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"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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Her parents, worried that they would also be cut off from their grandson, agreed to perform community service.
Mr Abraham said the crash threw Mrs Glauber from the car and pinned her husband inside the taxi, forcing emergency workers to cut off the roof to get him out.
One, wearing an orange shirt emblazoned with the rocker's name, jumped off a bridge near Tokyo, and the other cut her wrists at a Tokyo funeral wake for the musician.
Ms Sanchez's Twitter account has not been updated since Thursday and the BBC's correspondent in Havana, Sarah Rainsford, said her mobile phone was unreachable and appeared to have been cut-off.
Rescue workers cut off the garment worker's mangled right hand to pull her free from the debris Thursday night.
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The last known survivor before Friday was killed on April 28 by a fire set off inadvertently by rescuers who were trying to cut through to free her.
She said she had been off sick on full pay for the first six months of her illness, and it was then cut to half-pay for a further three months.
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