• The courageous young heroines who have endured combat missions deserve our recognition, nay our praise.

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  • The judge described the woman who brought the claim as "one of the unsung heroines" of society.

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  • One small wrench of plot, and our two heroines are shacked up together.

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  • The party is standard fare for the heroines of two tales set in the prelapsarian world of hedge fund riches.

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  • The group list their heroines as Whitney Houston, Janet Jackson, Lauryn Hill - and rock band Skunk Anansie's fiery frontwoman Skin.

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  • Perhaps all that time writing about Tudor princesses has led her to lose her head -- like so many Tudor heroines.

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  • Like the movie, the music's architecture is bisected by the two heroines.

    NPR: 'Hitchcock's Music' Scores Big on Suspense

  • Clients are the main characters, the heroes and heroines of therapeutic stage.

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  • Nobody is more touching in this regard than Darrieux, her soft wrinkles unable to erode the exquisite heroines she once incarnated for Max Ophuls.

    NEWYORKER: 8 Women

  • But getting women to act in the films remains an uphill task, and more ambitious filmmakers are now scouring neighbouring Tajikistan and Uzbekistan for heroines.

    BBC: "Look, there goes the wife of the mullah!"

  • Steeped in the parochial thinking of American academic feminism, she devotes too much space to the (to her) mystifying puzzle of her heroines' lack of gender consciousness.

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  • If we look deeper in the technical landscape there are countless heroines who have built and executed in great companies in the Valley since the past 20 years.

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  • The judge called the woman one of society's "unsung heroines".

    BBC: Foster care pay policy 'unlawful' at Tower Hamlets

  • The heroines of this robustly poignant coming-of-age film are fifteen- and sixteen-year-old girls who are working out their identities in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, during the fading weeks of summer.

    NEWYORKER: Our Song

  • While the heroes and heroines of most traditional Anderson and Grimm fairy tales are simply born somewhere, both Dorothy and the Wizard are immigrants who travel to a wondrous land.

    WSJ: The Road Well-Traveled: Oz the Great and Powerful

  • Two of her heroines were Marie Curie, a pioneer in the study of radioactivity, and Alma Mahler, who gained rather more notorious fame as a result of her love affairs.

    ECONOMIST: Fran?oise Giroud

  • Ms Whitman and Ms Fiorina will attack the Democrats for being liberal career politicians, pawns of the unions and of big government at a time when California needs corporate heroines.

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  • Martin was unflaggingly attentive to his supplicants, including the couple who asked him to pose for a photograph with their infant daughter, who was named Daenerys, for one of his heroines.

    NEWYORKER: Just Write It!

  • When I started to write about Gertrude Bell I revered her as one of those heroines of the Wilder Shores who followed their romantic notions here and there about the world.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'Gertrude Bell'

  • The heroines, Jess, the fiery, red-headed school teacher, and Mercy, the innocent but feisty teenager, are so well conceived that it comes as a disappointment when the villain is such a stereotype.

    ECONOMIST: Fiction from Australia

  • The Longest Journey is helped along royally by the fact that April Ryan is one of the strongest, most well-written, and most likeable heroines ever to point-and-click her way around a PC game.

    CNN: Review: The Longest Journey

  • While other female-centered hits, with more likable heroines, are ignored or patronized, these racy fables agitate audiences, in part because they violate the dictate that women, both fictional and real, not make anyone uncomfortable.

    NEWYORKER: Hannah Barbaric

  • In the week that Americans celebrated the 100th anniversary of the birth of one of the great heroines of the struggle for black equality, Mr Fernandez described it as his very own "Rosa Parks moment".

    BBC: Bus taunts that sparked Australian racism debate

  • But while Austen's sharp prose, ironic wit and vivid characterisation are all key to her appeal, Robens believes that it is the romantic entanglements of her strong-willed heroines that draw so many to the books.

    BBC: Janeites: The curious American cult of Jane Austen

  • She is also inspired, she says, by her namesake Malalai of Maiwand - one of the greatest Afghan heroines, who ran onto the battlefield at Maiwand in 1880 and rallied the Afghan forces to defeat the British.

    BBC: Malalai Joy, Afghan MP

  • Others of the stories have spunky heroines.

    NEWYORKER: Once Upon a Time

  • The Iran of her childhood is gone but the one of her memories is a place no relative or ruler can destroy: a land of sweet shops, snowy mountains and heroes and heroines from a glorious if mythical past.

    ECONOMIST: Memoir of Iran

  • But casual female-targeted gaming hits with female heroines, such as "Diner Dash" and "Wedding Dash, " make it clear that casual game developers are attacking far broader swaths of the population than the traditional 18-to-35-year-old male demographic coveted by makers of hardcore games.

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