Her star power helped her land meetings with potential supporters, and she steered clear of opponents.
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He suggested she mention his name in her cover letter, a move Ms. Do believes helped her land an internship at the company.
In Season 2, the show reversed those proportions, emphasizing arcs above episodes, in order to chronicle the black-humor ballad of Mags, who killed a man, tried to adopt his daughter, and forged a canny bargain with a corporation that wanted to strip-mine her land.
Jamila has spent the better part of the last year in New York, away from her family, working at a Brooklyn hospital as a house physician -- a low-paying and demanding position open to doctors in her situation -- in hopes it would help her land a residency this spring.
Wunmi's style of music is hard to pin down because she has so many cultural influences, including those from Nigeria, the land of her ancestors, and England, the land of her birth.
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But it may be that they were glad to see her departure to her promised land.
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Lino produces three different blogs, and she says her side activity helped her to land an offer.
Despite her loyalty to the Sindhi community, Sonia continues to have mixed feelings about her native land.
She was one of four soldiers to be killed when her Snatch Land Rover was caught in an explosion in the Lashkar Gah area.
Her sophisticated soldier husband, the Hereditary Prince of Brunswick, taunted her with a succession of mistresses, and she took disconsolately to religion, and to trumpeting the superiority of her native land.
Relations between Korea and China have been soured by the murder of a Ming envoy to Korea and a group of exiled Koreans hope to restore ties between the two countries by returning to her native land a Chinese princess they have rescued in the desert.
In Torfaen, the family of 103-year-old Millie Jenkins paid tribute to council officials, who moved her to a care home by Land Rover after her house in Garndiffaith developed an electrical fault.
That reputation helped land her a spot on John McCain's presidential ticket, and it was no accident.
Kerber battled past the second seed 7-6 5-7 6-3 to land her first career title after a superb week.
Lewis did her quest to land a place in the GB team for the World Championships no harm with a good performance in Belgium on Saturday.
She gradually imposed her will on the former Marine after that, finally getting her legs on top of Carmouche and patiently separating her arms to land an armbar.
Instruct whomever becomes Interior Secretary to recognize that the states can do a far better, more efficient job of regulating hydraulic fracturing, and the oil and natural gas industry in general, than his or her Bureau of Land Mangement (BLM) can.
Her recent work to ban anti-personnel land mines gave her an even more mature and serious edge.
Determined that her son would not work on the land, Burns' mother sent her son to the Ayrshire village of Kirkoswald.
Cleopatra emerged as stand-in for her occult, alchemical land, the intoxicating address of sex and excess.
Linney admits that People magazine has been known to land in her lap.
Out on deck after coffee, she surveys the approaching land through her binoculars.
She said she hoped she had left "a little bit of a mark in a positive way" in the land of her birth.
What other -- my question to her is what other land areas might be at risk, and -- for example, the Florida beaches?
Scottish event rider Nicola Malcolm has been airlifted to hospital after falling from her horse during the Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials in Lincolnshire.
Like many of the Soviet Jewish dissidents she befriended, Ms Laber feels ambivalent about the land where her ancestors suffered pogroms: passionate about its literature, horrified by its cruelty.
Achieng was born in Warrington but at the age of three she moved to the land of her father - Kenya - where she rose to prominence in the pool.
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From Bugues, you could see her head rising in the distance, above the hedge of medlar trees that separated our land from that of her children.
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