Now a nurse practitioner, Penelope is raising two strong-willed children.
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" It's so much more cathartic than, "He's a strong-willed guy.
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"He was an absolutely caring and strong willed man," she said.
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"He was an absolutely caring and strong-willed man," she said.
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Claire's parents learned to trust their independent and strong-willed daughter.
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Jordan is the strong-willed boss, and April the meek executive assistant.
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"He's definitely a strong-willed little boy," she says with a laugh.
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Uncrustables My daughter came right out the womb stubborn and strong willed.
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"She's still strong-willed," he says of her style then and now.
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Liz was so independent, fiercely strong‑willed, and further than her time.
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"They are loving, strong-willed and, at times, extremely thoughtful," Farmer says.
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I've had the pleasure of working for some very strong-willed women.
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"He was an absolutely caring and strong-willed man," Jacklin Luna said.
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Mr. Rudin is nothing if not strong-willed, and willing to litigate.
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"They're very similar and very strong willed," he said of the two men.
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Joan and Mercedes were both strong-willed women and they were my mentors.
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Corker's effort has been bolstered by another strong-willed supporter: Pennsylvania GOP Sen.
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"She's extremely strong-willed and very adventurous," Harmeling, 240, told The LA Times.
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His gold medal came aboard Snowbound, a strong-willed 240-year-old gelding.
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But the effect is as vivid as the sassy, strong-willed narrator's pidgin.
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In death, vocal, strong-willed disability activists cannot push back on being exceptionalized.
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What the strong-willed Mr. Masur could not do was peacefully coexist with the equally strong-willed Ms. Borda, who decamped in 1999 to run the Los Angeles Philharmonic, which she helped elevate to a standard-setter in many regards.
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" Abigail's parents described her as a strong-willed teen who "loves to have fun.
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" The proud parents say Ella is "smiley, friendly and a strong-willed little lady.
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She had a lot of wonderful qualities: She was strong-willed and very smart.
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Maiya is crazy smart, independent, kind, strong willed, and nurturing (Just like her mom).
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"He is a strong person, patient and strong-willed," his mother Umm Dawoud said.
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And he was a strong-willed kid, so he moved back in with Toby.
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"Robbie is a pretty remarkable, strong-willed person," said Robert Ardino of White Plains.
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Macron acknowledged during his remarks Tuesday that he was visiting a strong-willed peer.
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"I realized there are strong-willed women like me who really want to work."
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Ms. Shaver was strong-willed and warm, meticulous about her home and her appearance.
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I was raised to be a strong-willed woman in a world full of men.
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A. My mom says I was pretty strong-willed and strong-minded as a toddler.
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This lady has now quit, because my aunt can be strong-willed and verbally abusive.
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Often they are terrified, skittish and incredibly strong willed from having survived in the wild.
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" Mr. Herman, the designer, said, "She was strong-willed, humane and stuck to her vision.
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We are a humble, strong-willed community that has proclaimed that together we will rise.
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Ehrman was famously strong-willed, and her politics fell to the left of the Clintons'.
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But in general, the sisters and their transformations remain hazy, especially the strong-willed Ayan.
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"She's extremely strong-willed and very adventurous," her brother, Brett Harmeling, told the LA Times.
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"It's a cat-and-mouse game between two very strong-willed leaders, strong governments," Burns said.
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Years earlier, she was the similarly strong-willed Nymphadora Tonks in the "Harry Potter" film series.
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I adored Gal Gadot's performance as the unapologetically kind, yet strong-willed and fierce Diana Prince.
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Strong willed and solidly built, Camacho was singled out as the more stubborn of the pair.
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Ironically, the much less strong-willed horse named War of Will took the prize home instead.
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"I would just say if you're not strong willed, strong minded, he'll attack you," Clark says.
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My mother, being the strong-willed individual that she is, had no problem voicing her concern.
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To many in Hollywood, he was an enigma, both strong-willed and tormented by self-doubt.
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" On Friday, Jack told Access Hollywood Live: "Mom is good … she's strong-willed, and we respect that.
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"It cannot survive a strong-willed liberal majority on the Supreme Court," he warned in July 2016.
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So if you're not very stable or strong-willed, you can easily get lost in it all.
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These were women who were persecuted and murdered because they were poor, old, strong-willed and rebellious.
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She had done a pilot for a C.I.A.-themed sitcom featuring a set of strong-willed women.
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But ultimately, he was ejected from his own company by someone as strong-willed as he was.
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For one thing, there's no villain in this story, only strong-willed and cunning women vying for power.
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And how do Beyoncé, Tina Turner and The Rolling Stones inspire Claire's razor-sharp and strong-willed personality?
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They weren't easy to find, but Vásquez, dogged and strong-willed, eventually tracked down more than a dozen.
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Fans of Rodrigo Duterte compare the Philippine president to Lee: strong-willed and intolerant of crime and corruption.
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One of the hottest "Star Wars" collectibles is a strong-willed, dual lightsaber-wielding Jedi named Ahsoka Tano.
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He and Beatty settled on a gorgeous, strong-willed unknown as the Bonnie to Beatty's Clyde: Faye Dunaway.
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"Fiona can definitely be strong-willed," said Gorsuch, which Gat believes is explained by Fiona's Mercury conjunct Pluto.
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Election In this 1999 classic, Witherspoon is a strong-willed high school student fighting to be class president.
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Taurus: Queen Sugar As steady as a bull, a Taurus is practical, strong-willed, and full of force.
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"Riley is way too smart for her own good, especially with her being so strong-willed," Adam admits.
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What was it like to portray a strong-willed female character in a movie that was largely male-dominated?
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They were edgy, confrontational, and strong willed with very little care about how much others liked or disliked them.
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He's a strong-willed guy and he'll let folks know if he doesn't like something they say about him.
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Macri, who has known Trump for years, added the Republican will bring strong-willed leadership to the White House.
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"He is a strong-willed man with a forceful personality" and "well-formed, deeply studied views," the official added.
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He was "a strong-willed, caring, giving, and special person," his niece Jacklin Luna said during an interview with Buzzfeed.
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The founders, strong-willed and influential journalists for various media, disagreed over what to do with their new political capital.
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"She was very strong-willed, strong-minded, an independent, young, female physician," said emergency doctor Betsy Hull, a close friend.
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"She is strong minded and strong willed, but with men that is often seen as a virtue," the person said.
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Unifying nearly all of his films are strong-willed but vulnerable female characters who provide succor to emotionally wounded sons.
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"My daughter's extremely strong-willed and sassy and funny, and likes to beat a joke into the ground," she says.
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Lani, the son of Tapit, another notoriously strong-willed horse, dug in and kicked for several minutes before reluctantly entering.
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Bryan C. Black, 35 Ever since he was a child, the Green Beret medic was incredibly strong-willed and competitive.
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I do believe we need more strong-willed female superheroes because they can serve as an inspiration to young girls.
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Santiago uses historically rich details to draw a portrait of a protagonist, Ana Cubillas, who is strong-willed and unforgettable.
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Prosecutors described Urtula as "driven" and "strong-willed" with no history of mental health problems before his relationship with You.
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I'm a pretty strong-willed person but that was the one thing in my life that I couldn't get to stick.
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He's a pretty strong-willed fella, but I think most Americans have a right to know whether this was a Gen.
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After all, what better way to keep strong-willed pod humans occupied than to give them a gritty simulation of rebellion?
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Mr. Staggs also lacked the support of some Disney shareholders, including Isaac Perlmutter, the strong-willed chief executive of Marvel Entertainment.
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Bill Clinton was surely shaped by the challenging circumstances of his youth, and by the imprint of a strong-willed mother.
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South Korean officials hope that the two strong-willed leaders will push the process ahead, with an eye on their legacies.
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General Moghaddam, known as eccentric and strong willed, had ordered his first facility, the one that was destroyed, painted that color.
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" Heather Beichner, another friend of the beloved mom, told NBC Connecticut, "She was an overall beautiful, strong-willed and amazing person.
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In 2013, she appeared as Liberace's strong-willed mother in the HBO movie "Behind the Candelabra," with Michael Douglas as Liberace.
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As for Jobs, Schilling says his strong-willed and somewhat abrasive personality made it difficult for him to sustain intimate friendships.
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Steal the Stars follows Dakota Prentiss, a grizzled ex-Army Ranger who's the strong-willed security chief at a secret government lab.
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Over the past decade, Ms Welch has made her name both as a hitmaker and as a kind of strong-willed sprite.
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Page's three eVTOL projects have made it this far thanks to a group of strong-willed engineers and his own deep pockets.
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Crawford wanted the strong-willed roles Davis was famous for, but her rival got first pick on all the most coveted roles.
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I don't know what kind of women Verhoeven is surrounding himself with, but strong-willed, fierce women don't innately hate each other.
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If you are shy yet submissive, extremely feminine, and love to be dominated by a strong-willed Irish woman then write me.
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They're also strong-willed, soft to the touch, independent, difficult, strange, resourceful, calculating, judgmental, and could possibly cause schizophrenia... but probably not.
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We're all extremely strong willed people, which is good for bonding where we are right now, but it can also be tricky.
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This bright and strong-willed girl possesses a strange and wonderful ability: the power to stop the rain and clear the sky.
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Throughout history, we've often fallen for this trick: We seek out strong-willed leaders in hopes that they will keep us safe.
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Now, with determination and strong-willed attitude, the student at North High School in Wichita, Kansas, is happy to finally be home.
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I'm going to eat today...I talk about it with my kids to this day: 'You gotta be strong-willed like Cole.
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She had written a note to each of her children — wise Jayden, kind Elijah, strong-willed Kyzia — in case she never woke up.
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He shows how people who in peacetime might just have been strong-willed or colourful types came to condone or perpetrate the unspeakable.
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"We are both strong willed and competitive — not just with each other but with everyone — and that's not a good mixture," she writes.
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"Right before I moved to California he gave me a pretty strong-willed kiss goodbye, which I have never experienced before," he said.
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"A new president is really vulnerable and open to all sorts of influence by strong-willed advisers," said Robert Dallek, a presidential historian.
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Teenagers this age are full of hope; they are passionate and strong-willed, and some apply these qualities to political issues as well.
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In the Senate particularly, these committees are run by strong-willed chairs who expect to have a major role in shaping the process.
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But the focus here is on her fraught relationship with her mother (Laurie Metcalf), who is equally strong-willed and has high standards.
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In order to survive her relationship with the strong-willed Marvelous, Margaret has put up certain defenses; she's funny, caustic, and relatively nonjudgmental.
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One can conclude that in our highly polarized world, a strong-willed president like Mr. Trump can limit impeachment — and possibly wreck it.
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It was an unusually conciliatory gesture for Mr. Rudin, who has a reputation in the theater industry for being strong-willed and litigious.
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"She was warm but strong-willed, both formidable and playful," Carole Radziwill recently wrote of her mother-in-law in a tribute to PEOPLE.
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As someone who is outspoken and strong-willed, as I imagine Rachel to be on some level, this is a less-than-ideal scenario.
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"Victoria was tiny and very, very strong willed," says historian Daisy Goodwin, the creator of the PBS/Masterpiece drama Victoria, which premieres January 15.
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And I was just really impressed by that, and by how strong-willed and determined — she immediately, she presented herself in such a way.
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So the strong-willed Deane decided to invest the money, little as it was, into creating a business to earn the income she needed.
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It's very hard to accept — a smart, intelligent, strong-willed person, or a young boy: Why do they have to feel abandoned like that?
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In response, he looked more strong-willed than ever in the final, and he, more than anyone, refused to let Palace win the game.
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"She was so intelligent and strong-willed," said Mr. Bustamante, who won the Democratic primary before losing in the general election in November 2014.
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But whether adding new directors will solve the problem remains to be seen, especially with a chief executive as strong-willed as Mr. Musk.
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But do you think that in, in some ways you were fired by the president because you are both such independent, strong-willed people?
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"We encourage young people to join rugby to cultivate the sprit of being strong-willed, aggressive, acquisitive and unified," Alisports CEO Zhang Dazhong said.
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The good fairy was a burlesque dancer, and Fibi, a strong-willed character and role model, was an adult actress under 4 feet tall.
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Her reputation as a hard-working, intelligent and strong-willed fighter further heightened expectations of the influence she would bring to the Trudeau government.
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Bartholdi's name is well known for his association with the statue; it is said that Liberty's face is modelled after his strong-willed mother, Charlotte.
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The 43-year-old politician was described as a "unique, strong-willed, opinionated, stubborn, determined, intelligent, prolific and even sexy young man in his prime".
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Those who take the step of reaching out, and actually moving toward an exit from their community, are among the most daring and strong-willed.
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As such, Beauty and the Beast really has an opportunity to leave us with a fleshed-out, strong-willed female character that sticks with us.
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He said he was taken aback when the strong-willed, spirited woman he had fallen in love with insisted on accompanying him to his tournaments.
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"It was supposed to be tuna niçoise, but we all like different things," Jane says; these three are strong willed as well as close-knit.
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Since then, he has come to see him as fair but not particularly strong-willed after the school's dynamo of a first dean, Leonard Strickman.
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Now, she's back with another political series, this time as the strong-willed but graceful-under-pressure President Elizabeth Keane on the new season of Homeland.
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"She remains in critical condition fighting for her life, but as we mentioned, she is strong-willed and she is fighting," Gene and Vicki Kopf said.
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He or she may be stubborn, or be in the hands of a powerful staff or of a strong-willed spouse, the latter being Wilson's case.
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"To be around these two powerful very strong-willed and very talented women every day, for like 30 days was eye-opening for me," says Duterte.
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"It's for strong-willed, independent people with very supportive families," said Dr. Timothy Quill, a veteran palliative care physician at the University of Rochester Medical Center.
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Its staff included more than a few strong-willed writers and editors, many of them Ivy League-bred, who took a dim view of media executives.
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I expected Julia—an independent, strong-willed woman with a solid family support system—to stand up for herself where many of the others had not.
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It is an invitation for the strong willed and large hearted to dig deep and lift others up while also blazing their own unique creative path.
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For most of that time, the Philharmonic was led by the strong-willed conductor Herbert von Karajan, one of the towering maestros of the 21962th century.
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Oberlin students are strong-willed and steadfast in our beliefs, yet we are a diverse group of deep thinkers with the capacity to understand dissenting opinions.
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The young actress Franziska Machens's Célimène is a strong-willed presence, and she matches Matthes, one of the Deutsches Theater's biggest stars, in toughness and resolve.
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And from the beginning, it was overseen by a strong-willed German board that knew well the risks and rewards that came with such a business.
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Desperate for any glimmer of success, Charlie reluctantly agrees to care for his famous pal David's (JJ Field) strong-willed, 11-year-old daughter, Gabby (Frankie Hervey).
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He was raised by his strong-willed grandmother in a St. Louis slum after his alcoholic mother gave up her children and his father abandoned the family.
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Put two strong-willed groups of people in a room with only one way of operating, and why would you expect the results to be any different?
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She told me that one of her friends, an especially strong-willed girl named Evelyne Richard, died after being injected with the drug we now call Thorazine.
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Over the weekend, everyone from members of the National Guard to strong-willed moms on boats came together to rescue people trapped in their homes and cars.
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"Before this incident my son was confident, strong-willed, driven, a good student, a good athlete," the father told the judge, according to the Dayton Daily News.
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Both were strong-willed, stubborn and fiercely intelligent, but in the man's world that was the early 19th century, when it came to battling, he usually won.
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Fox also has a stable of strong-willed movie executives who, at times, have tried to undercut Ms. Snider, who can now begin building a management team.
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But, as a nine-year-old, I wanted to be Amy, not Jo. Amy, too, was smart, artistic, funny, and strong-willed, but so much more glamorous.
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However, Elena's strong-willed political views aren't seen as something that need to be "fixed," and the show never condescends to her or forces her to change.
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"Jazz is very strong-willed," Jeanette told me in a phone interview this March, speaking from her home in Florida with Jazz on the line as well.
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I chose the snow leopard as my kindred species for the campaign because they tend to be strong willed, independent characters who find themselves in tough situations.
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Tormented by self-doubt — he particularly disliked hearing how much he resembled the young Marlon Brando — he was also strong-willed, clashing often with directors and producers.
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"As a woman, if you are too opinionated, too strong-willed, too anything, you are disregarded," she said of the director, who also photographed her ELLE spread.
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It is to Kumar's credit that he makes Chauhan seem docile and mild, yet strong-willed enough to go where no Indian man has dared to venture.
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Palmer explains that Webber was torn between the good of her gig – that she plays independent, strong-willed med student Gabby Holland – and the uncomfortable sex scene parts.
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Over the course of her last year of high school, Lady Bird brashly contends with her impending adult inspirations and complicated relationship with her equally strong-willed mother.
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In the meantime, Prince William and his sharp-witted, strong-willed wife, Kate, try their best to ensure the future of the throne that will eventually be theirs.
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NEWLY RELEASED ANTONIA'S LINE The Dutch filmmaker Marleen Gorris's account of two strong-willed women on a farm won an Oscar in 1996 for best foreign-language film.
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Maude Findlay was a savvy, strong-willed, silver-tonged broad—a proud feminist living with her fourth husband Walter (Bill Macy), and her divorced daughter Carol (Adrienne Barbeau).
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Ms. Falco won three Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for her portrayal of the strong-willed wife of the mob boss Tony Soprano.
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I loved how she dominated her field in football as a female, and despite transitioning into Olympic sports and bobsledding, she was still very strong-willed and determined.
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It's no wonder that as Bianca listened, her face collapsed into a mask of horror: This is what the world has done to her angry, strong-willed sister.
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In The Village, Grace plays a strong-willed and artistic teenager named Katie who lives among a close-knit group of neighbors at a unique apartment building in Brooklyn.
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My family is as strong-willed, stubborn and opinionated as they come (I get it honestly), and I won't condescend to you and tell you how to handle yours.
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A radically independent, fiercely feminist, ukulele-playing, gregarious dog-lover, my daughter is one of the most intriguing and strong-willed people I've ever met — even if I'm partial.
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This voter, she said, is "tired of arguing with folks in their circle of life who are very opinionated and strong willed and loud" — and opposed to Mr. Trump.
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This voter, she said, is "tired of arguing with folks in their circle of life who are very opinionated and strong willed and loud" — and opposed to Mr. Trump.
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There are few people who can stop him from using the powers of the state to punish his enemies, but a strong-willed FBI director is one of them.
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But in 2007, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, a maverick, strong-willed chief justice, locked horns with Mr. Musharraf, igniting the grass-roots Lawyers' Movement that helped lead to his resignation.
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What made you feel as confidently as you did, and how difficult was it to play against somebody who was so dynamic and strong-willed as Billie Jean King?
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Robert Downey as strong-willed Australian journalist Wayne Gale in Natural Born Killers is a textbook example of why international stars mess up the Down Under accent so easily.
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I'm reminded of some strong-willed women artists I knew, in the early years of the women's movement, who also resisted having their solitary struggles described in ideological terms.
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The men in their community, particularly Laurie (Timothée Chalamet), are overwhelmed by their ferocity of spirit, and look upon their strong-willed closeness with wonder that tips into envy.
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Raising a strong-willed child in Latin America in the 1980s and early '90s, my parents did not have the wisdom of the past 20 years of medical research.
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She is strong-willed and independent, obtaining a doctorate at the age of 55 and balancing a teaching job at a community college with the demands of being second lady.
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Travolta, 62, opened up about what it's like raising his 16-year-old daughter Ella in the spotlight, saying he's lucky to have such a smart and strong-willed child.
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Auli'i Cravalho, the Hawaii-born actress who voices Moana, told PEOPLE in October she wanted fans to feel welcome to dress as the driven, strong-willed leading lady for Halloween.
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Angela Bassett plays the strong-willed mother of two in Black Panther, a role she also holds off screen as the mom to 12-year-old twins Bronwyn and Sadler.
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Former first lady Nancy Reagan, the stylish and strong-willed widow of the 523th President of the United States, Ronald Reagan, has died of congestive heart failure, her spokesperson confirms.
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The charges, they said, amounted to a political assault on a strong-willed elected official who often seemed to have as many enemies in the capital as he did friends.
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The E.M. Forster adaptation boasts Emma Thompson in her best role (and an Oscar-winning one at that!) as the strong-willed Margaret, who navigates class, family drama, and romance.
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Wishing to turn a shuttered library into a day care center, Grandma (Luise Ullrich), the strong-willed matriarch, and her new companion, Gregor (Werner Finck), don't wait for city permission.
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Justice Scalia, who is frequently invoked by Mr. Trump as a model for a Supreme Court justice, was known as a forceful writer and strong-willed voice of judicial conservatism.
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One of the world's great inventions, only a little behind the light bulb, was Ramona Quimby, the strong-willed, lovable and exasperating star of "Ramona the Pest" and other books.
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Ronan, again, serves as the movie's anchor, portraying a strong-willed young woman finding her literary voice, ably following in the footsteps of actresses like Katherine Hepburn and Winona Ryder.
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"To a large degree, the fate of Mr. Clinton's political ambition rests in the hands of his blunt, strong-willed and, critics say, strident wife," Shribman wrote in January 210.
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Duke remained a hard-working actress and a familiar face on television until the end of her life, usually playing strong-willed, occasionally wrong-headed women, and playing them very well.
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From her youth until her last moments on earth, Barbara Bush could be plain spoken and strong willed at times and always radiated a humanity and goodwill that is quintessentially American.
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But Trump is also a quick learner, and now has a better understanding of just how hard it is to work with the hundreds of strong-willed independent thinkers in Congress.
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Clinton has a history of strong-willed chiefs of staff, all of them women, including Maggie Williams and Ms. Verveer in the White House, and Ms. Mills at the State Department.
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Her most high-profile part came in 2007 as a strong-willed queen in Zack Snyder's "300," a film better remembered for writhing beefcake captured with then-innovative chroma key cinematography.
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After another strong-willed executive, Ernest Fleischmann, retired from the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 1997 after nearly three decades, his successor, Willem Wijnbergen, lasted less than two years in the post.
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Ex-The Real Housewives of New York City star Carole Radziwill recently remembered her mother-in-law as "warm but strong-willed" and "both formidable and playful" in a tribute to PEOPLE.
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Although General Hifter styles himself as a military virtuoso who forged Libya's only disciplined army, in practice his Libyan National Army is a loose coalition of militias headed by strong-willed commanders.
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HEATHER SEIDEL Ambitious, strong-willed and looking for someone who can be her equal, Seidel is a flight attendant who is active and enjoys traveling and cooking for her family and friends.
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His rejection of the family values and preference for an artistic lifestyle led to the clashes with his strong-willed mother that he chronicled in "Three Tall Women," his most autobiographical work.
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Elon Musk's renewed feud with the Securities and Exchange Commission after another errant tweet raises concern over the Tesla board's ability to control the electric car maker's strong-willed and unpredictable CEO.
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"We're both very strong-willed and ambitious, and I think we have a similar sense of humor," Ms. McCain said of her father in a 2010 interview with The New York Times.
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"She's very assertive, she's strong-willed, she's a workaholic, she's determined, she's smart, witty and for her to become missing is very puzzling to me, because she's a fighter," said Ms. Ross.
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A 2011 study that examined how people deal with self-control found that those of us who are best at it aren't more strong-willed or dedicated: They simply experience temptation less.
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There is also the figure of Mr. Correa himself, a strong-willed populist who ruled for a decade, created a new Constitution and lifted large sections of his nation out of poverty.
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We meet her in the 1920s, a strong-willed, spirited teenager whose quirky personality demands an escape from the small village in rural Sweden where her religious family farms on church land.
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Mel is also a "strong-willed feminist" who experiences a tragic accident that leaves her angry and unable to deal with her emotions, which might cause some problems with her time-freezing abilities.
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Clark, meanwhile, is being set up as the show's heroine: She's a single mother of two children with a deadbeat ex, she's strong-willed, no bullshit, and the best at what she does.
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Those grievances, analysts said, have been amplified by Mr. Trump and his Turkish counterpart, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, both strong-willed leaders who share a penchant for invective and doubling down when threatened.
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Jackie-Michelle Martinez, a Strong-Willed New Yorker When Jackie-Michelle Martinez joined the New York Fire Department in 2006, she was one of just 29 women among around 8,000 firefighters and officers.
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The president, in forcing the hand of General de Villiers, took a page from the playbook of Charles de Gaulle, the strong-willed former general who founded the country's Fifth Republic in 1958.
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NOTES ON MY MOTHER'S DECLINE Andy Bragen's ("Don't You _______ Say a Word") autobiographical play looks at the relationship between a son and his formerly strong-willed mother, now ill and in her decline.
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The Crown shows the strain her coronation places on their relationship, as Elizabeth struggles with wanting to be a model 1950s wife to her strong-willed husband, while having to also be his monarch.
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No joy for the chancellor that day – and even less for the coach, Joachim Low, with whom she has a strong friendship (which may have suffered a little.) Both are outsiders, both strong-willed.
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In addition to being one of the most ridiculous and recognizable love stories on TV, it also features a tour de force performance by the late Carrie Fisher, who plays Delaney's strong-willed mother.
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Robin Wright — currently starring in House of Cards and the upcoming Wonder Woman and Blade Runner 2049 — was just 21 years old when she played the ethereal but strong-willed Buttercup back in 1987.
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The deepening standoff raised questions of whether the two strong-willed leaders were risking even broader chaos as they vied for the upper hand in a widening diplomatic dispute largely focused on individual personalities.
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His parents wanted him to go to nearby Horace Mann, a highly selective preparatory school, but Zuckerberg, once described by his father as "strong-willed and relentless," preferred the more rarefied Phillips Exeter Academy.
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They asked whether Mr. Sessions supported Mr. Trump's most controversial statements and questioned whether he had the independence to rein in the strong-willed Mr. Trump if he seeks to exceed his presidential authority.
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Russell's strong-willed mother, Lucy Elizabeth Robinson Baker, was forced to give up an infant daughter to childless in-laws and took the boy and his younger sister to live with her brother in Newark.
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It resulted in a more strong-willed empathy to defend the right for others to believe and evangelize what they hold to be true to them (as long as others aren't getting swindled, tricked, or hurt).
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" Initial "Beauty and the Beast" reviews have been mostly positive, with critics praising Ms. Watson's strong-willed Belle; Sarah Greenwood's sumptuous production design; and Mr. Condon's vivid handling of the household objects — even Mrs. Potts. "Mrs.
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Together, they unspool Paul's gritty secrets, in a thriller that our reviewer, Marilyn Stasio, said was brimming with "strong-willed female characters who can't wait around until the boys shake the lead out of their shoes."
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Strong-willed and independent, Mr. Boutros-Ghali took the helm determined to subdue aggression and pursue peace after the fall of Soviet Communism and a relaxation of East-West tensions that had long hamstrung the United Nations.
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Gilbert's previous two novels, 2000's Stern Men and 2013's The Signature of All Things, both follow strong-willed women who forge their own paths in societies that aren't quite ready for them to do so.
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Not only did Thoreau's ideas influence Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, but his strong-willed and idiosyncratic take on relationships among individuals, their governments, and nature has left a mark on generations of less famous readers.
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It all resulted in a more strong-willed empathy to defend the right for others to believe and evangelize what they hold to be true to them (as long as others aren't getting swindled, tricked, or hurt).
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My wife and I reckon their strong-willed and forthright personalities are strengths that will serve them well their entire lives (especially if they come up against men to whom these kinds of lessons were not imparted).
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In this case, the strong-willed coaches render that more conspicuous by pushing back against essentially staging where they chat -- a cute moment, in terms of exposing their personalities, which makes the filmmakers look worse than intended.
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Stephen's wardrobe of hard-core nerd sweaters, on the other hand, is nicely in keeping with his endearingly unreconstructed dorkdom — a shell of awkwardness that Mr. Trumbull cracks to reveal pain, self-awareness and strong-willed dignity.
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Indeed, the production notes draw appropriate comparisons to the 1961 World War II classic "The Guns of Navarone," another film about a team of strong-willed individuals thrown together to undertake a secret mission against a malevolent empire.
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"What he wants is to operate like the 26th floor of Trump Tower where he had a strong-willed, very good woman in Rhona Graff handling the calls, knowing him, getting his zen, things like that," Nunberg said.
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WASHINGTON — North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un, has invited President Trump to meet for negotiations over its nuclear program, an audacious diplomatic overture that would bring together two strong-willed, idiosyncratic leaders who have traded threats of war.
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He became famous with the publication of "Growing Up," the account of his impoverished childhood, his strong-willed mother who kept urging him to "amount to something" and his satisfaction at eventually (he hoped) having achieved her ambition.
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Vanda the heroin addict is seen as a sober and relatively happy mother in Colossal Youth, and the addled Ventura who walks tremblingly through Costa's last three films is rejuvenated by his interactions with the strong-willed, unbroken Vitalina.
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The monster-voiced La'Porsha Renae parted amicably with the rest of her original foursome to join up with Tonie Starr and Marlena Johnson, who were in danger of being eliminated after Shelbie Z, the strong-willed hairdresser, ditched them.
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Watch it nowA warm, affecting comedy about a high school senior (Saoirse Ronan) who must navigate a loving but turbulent relationship with her strong-willed mother over the course of her eventful and poignant senior year of high school.
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An irascible, strong-willed figure, Mr. Wu ended up spending much of that money on his organization, the Laogai Research Foundation, which had worked to expose China's exploitative use of prison labor, especially involving people jailed for political crimes.
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Bring your ex into the conversation I trust that anyone can be strong-willed if they set their mind to it, but avoiding sleeping with your ex is a lot harder when they won't stay out of your DMs.
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But from a Nietzschean perspective, strong-willed people enjoy the intoxication of loving, but have the big picture in mind: they realize the main criterion for choosing a long-term partner ought to be the ability to hold a decent conversation.
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I think if I would have just heard 'Yes' my whole life, then I wouldn't be as strong-willed and as courageous as I am today, so that's what I instilled in these girls who really felt like my little sisters.
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Women come and go through Woodcock's life, providing the confirmed bachelor with inspiration and companionship, until he comes across a young, strong-willed woman, Alma (Vicky Krieps), who soon becomes a fixture in his life as his muse and lover.
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Berg takes the cue from his no-nonsense characters and you feel their peril: Particularly effective is Gina Rodriguez's Andrea, one of the ship's navigators who is believably both strong-willed and absolutely petrified as her ship dissolves around her.
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While the kids and teenagers of past family sitcoms spent most of their time being lectured to, the youth of today's family sitcoms are strong-willed, independent thinkers who often teach their parents lessons rather than the other way around.
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He was in the cast of about two dozen Disney animated films, including "Lilo & Stitch" (2002), as the villain Jumba Jookiba, and "Beauty and the Beast" (1991), in which he was the voice of Cogsworth, a strong-willed pendulum clock.
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As a strong-willed career gal who inadvertently falls in love with a rakish playboy (played by Rock Hudson), Day conveys both a commitment to bedrock moral values and an undeniable yearning to be hugged and smooched by a total dreamboat.
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In 1960 he married a woman who embodies the most sexist understanding of the adjective "strong-willed" (a quality that would be labeled "strength" or "independence" in men) and spent every day of their marriage encouraging her to do so unapologetically.
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"We're both incredibly ambitious and I do appreciate that were both very strong willed and trying to, as most woman are, [find] the balance between career, life, relationship -- all of that," she told AOL Build in an interview in 2016.
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Ms. Merkel and her strong-willed finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, had indicated before Monday's important talks that they were ready to be flexible in attempts to address France's economic woes, and the chancellor emphasized that Germans must not act superior.
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In developing a series about a strong-willed family that also includes two police officers and a prosecutor, Mr. Goldberg added an unusual touch: Every episode featured a post-church Sunday dinner, with the Reagans talking (and arguing) around the table.
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Strong-willed, far-sighted and independent, the Midwestern farmer has long lived up to his depiction in Grant Wood's famous painting "American Gothic," portraying a father and daughter posed with a pitchfork in front of a home complete with Gothic window.
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The comedy played out as he tried to advance grand plans against the wishes of his strong-willed wife, Sybil, played by Prunella Scales, and in his frequent miscommunications with Manuel, who was from Barcelona and not proficient in English.
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The cringe is the real secret skill of Hilda, because at the show's center is the idea that Hilda is a bit set in her ways and unwilling to consider other perspectives, like many a strong-willed child before her.
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Boleyn stood in on vocals while they looked for a permanent singer; she adopted the last name "Boleyn" after Henry the VIII's doomed, strong-willed wife so she could preserve her reputation as a respected keyboard player under her legal name.
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A strong-willed crusader for robotic rights, L3-37 is easily the film's most entertaining addition to the canon, as well as a sly thumb in the eye of fanboys who have turned their backs on a more inclusive Star Wars universe.
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" Kathy Rinaldi, a national coach for the United States Tennis Association, said the strong-willed and passionate Stewart was "taking all the qualities she learned from tennis — commitment, knowing how to push herself and dig deep — and using them to full advantage.
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Rabbi Mordechai Hager, the reserved but strong-willed leader of one of the nation's largest Hasidic sects, who settled many of his followers in a relatively bucolic upstate enclave to escape New York City's temptations and decadence, died on Friday in Manhattan.
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It's something I've been really intense, and has been honed on a public stage, but I do think I have always been kind of strong-willed and really vigorous about gathering information and finding the way to be confident in expressing myself.
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As set decorators and wardrobe crew remodeled summer 2017 into fall 1958, Midge Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan), the show's strong-willed heroine, hosted a birthday party for Ethan, her 4-year-old son, while discussing divorce with Joel (Michael Zegen), her man-child husband.
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By the time she died, Ms. Kamman had established a reputation as a strong-willed teacher of traditional French cuisine for modern tastes and an influential chef whose cooking was deeply informed by her knowledge of food chemistry, botany, history and geography.
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"This is part of a larger set of issues that the country is wrestling with right now, where a very strong-willed minority is trying to impose its value system on the country as a whole," said Roger McNamee, an industry investor.
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Embassies in Washington trade tips and ambassadors send cables to presidents and ministers back home suggesting how to handle a mercurial, strong-willed leader with no real experience on the world stage, a preference for personal diplomacy and a taste for glitz.
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But some Chinese officials share the concern of observers that future clashes between China and the US, if neither strong-willed leader is willing to compromise, would almost inevitably push up nationalistic fervor from hardliners in the Chinese government, military and general public.
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It's a closely observed, quietly emotional film about a girl strong-willed enough to throw herself out of a car on the highway to escape an annoying conversation, but still sensitive enough to have her heart broken by boys, her mother, and her family's poverty.
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" Benioff adds, "He's a very strong-willed person, he didn't come down there to bend the knee, he didn't come down there to join her in her fight against Cersei — none of that matters at this point; all that matters is fighting the dead.
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One did not need a Ph.D. in political science to know that with a Democrat in the White House, and filibuster rules in the Senate providing a strong-willed minority the ability to block pretty much anything, neither of these promises could be met.
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His father, Carmine Sr., was a legal stenographer for Manhattan law firms, and his mother, Susan (Plantamura) Persico, was a strong-willed woman who tried to keep a tight rein on young Carmine; his older brother, Alphonse; his younger brother, Theodore; and a sister, Dolores.
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Anna, a strong-willed and charming bartender beloved by regulars at the restaurant where she worked, guided her 3-year-old niece into the raft, corralled her sister's dog into the carrying case, and placed her belongings into a garbage bag, along with bottled water and crackers.
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Among those who came were a young man called Guled, who had been kidnapped and escaped from al Shabaab; Nisho, born as his parents were fleeing Somalia in 1991; and clever, strong-willed Muna, to whom schooling gave the confidence to defy the strictures of her clan.
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Unlike the hapless former secretary of state, he has a close relationship with Trump and more Washington experience, seems determined to put the State Department back in the foreign policy driver's seat, is strong willed and assertive, and knows how to play to foreign policy constituencies.
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The Radikons — along with a collection of strong-willed, relentlessly experimental neighbors like Josko Gravner, Movia and, a little to the south, Edi Kante — have operated on another borderline, making wines that wander into territory half-forgotten in an age of chemical farming and technological winemaking.
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Long before she was an Oscar winner, Katniss Everdeen, or even the strong-willed Ree in Winter's Bone, Jennifer Lawrence got her first big-screen role in a small film by Lori Petty, best known at the time for her role in A League of Their Own.
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The result fractured the invincibility of a strong-willed leader with little tolerance for dissent, who has made Turkey an increasingly prominent force in the Middle East and raised tensions with the United States as he moves his country, a member of NATO, closer to Russia.
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What they missed was an excellent Kenneth Lonergan screenplay, crisply paced Hettie MacDonald direction, and a cast — led by Hayley Atwell as the strong-willed spinster Margaret Schlegel and Matthew Macfadyen as the conservative widower Henry Wilcox — which found some of the deeper character notes in Forster's story.
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Dobson's thinking on the topic of strength and authority is dominated by a single theme: If the strong-willed child is allowed by indulgence to develop "habits" of defiance and disrespect during his early childhood, those characteristics will haunt him and his parents for the next twenty years.
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Americans a generation older may associate the house with the notorious "Cliveden Set," presided over by the strong-willed Virginian Nancy Astor, who held gatherings in the lead-up to World War II that were attended by prominent, appeasement-minded Britons and the Germans who sought their support.
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Conceived by a strong-willed woman who does not want to have to marry the boy's father, and who ships off for America only to discover that she cannot abort a 7-month-old fetus here, Deming is first sent back to China to live with his grandfather.
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The musical still begins in 1906 in Oklahoma territory where Laurey Williams (a strong-willed Rebecca Naomi Jones) must make a consequential choice between suitors: the dreamy cowboy Curly McClain (a deceptively seductive Damon Daunno) and the loner farmhand Jud Fry (played with unprecedented vulnerability by Patrick Vaill).
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We know from the way she dealt with Ramsay in episode 9 that Sansa is now very different from the naive, romance-obsessed girl we saw in the show's first season — Sansa 2.0 is strong-willed, tough, and more than happy to play the game and get her hands dirty.
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He wants to put strong-willed people — business executives and generals are mentioned most often — in charge of cabinet agencies and throughout his senior staff, and direct them to negotiate deals and plans with congressional leaders and state officials, as well as insurance companies and others in the private sector.
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As he rose the ranks, joining the special counsel team that investigated President Bill Clinton and his wife, Hillary, as a deputy in the Whitewater probe, and later serving as a top assistant US attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia, Comey honed a reputation as a strong-willed prosecutor.
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" The same year, People magazine described her as "a strong-willed 41-year-old Spanish-born redhead" (the age was quite a bit off) who "has what it takes — money, taste and, perhaps most important, a willingness to back new plays to the hilt, take a bath and still try again.
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He's not alone: Stranded alongside the British schoolboy are Con ("short for Constantia, but if you call me that, I'll kill you"), a strong-willed schoolgirl whose primness will be tested by the rain forest adventure to come; Lila, shy and even-keeled; and finally Max, Lila's little brother, a rascal prone to tantrums.
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I found that strange, because Lenin was one of the most strong-willed men who ever lived; he was at once zealously one-sided and emotionally evasive, but nevertheless, throughout his exile, no matter where he happened to be, in Zurich, London or Paris, he made sure to have Turgenev's collected works with him.
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The play, first staged at New Mexico State and then, in 22019, at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, is about a strong-willed young woman, Sarah, who is deaf, and her evolving relationship with James, a speech teacher at a state school for the deaf who struggles to understand her world and perspective.
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Ms. Staunton's last London stage appearance was her Olivier Award-winning turn as Momma Rose in "Gypsy," another strong-willed American woman who is derided in some quarters as monstrous but who, like Martha, may simply be trying to salvage a sense of self from the apparent wreckage these ladies otherwise know as life.
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Back in the 1920s, modernism embodied the imagination of a newly independent state, and in the 30s, the early years of Egyptian nationalism, my grandmother, a politically inclined and strong-willed feminist, commissioned the architect Ali Labib Gabr, the dean of Cairo University's architecture school and a pioneering architect in Egypt, to design the house under her direction.
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"Other countries with strong-willed authoritarian leaders have also launched attacks on critical journalists and intellectuals who they see as threatening their hold on power:Under President Xi Jinping, Chinese officials have routinely clamped down on reporting on the oppressed Uighur Muslim minority by repeatedly denying reports of their forced incarceration and claiming that the detentions are "free vocational training.
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Tito Capobianco, who created groundbreaking productions at the New York City Opera in the 21978s and '21984s, including a rare staging of Handel's "Giulio Cesare" that made Beverly Sills a star, and went on to became a strong-willed general director at the Pittsburgh Opera, died on Saturday at his home in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, Fla.
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The fight has pitted two strong-willed artistic leaders against one another: Christian Thielemann, the principal conductor of the Staatskapelle Dresden and the Easter Festival's artistic director since 2013; and the man tapped last November as his successor, Nikolaus Bachler, who is nearing the end of his tenure as general manager of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich.
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Merry Happy Whatever (November 28)Set during the happy but hectic days before and after Christmas, Merry Happy Whatever follows Don Quinn (Dennis Quaid), a strong-willed patriarch from Philadelphia doing his best to balance the stress of the holidays with the demands of his close-knit but eclectic family—and his family doing their best to manage him.
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All the women and girls are worried about him in the house, but when he wakes up, relations slowly improve between the affable McBurney and the women, particularly the oldest three: strong-willed, mature Miss Martha, quiet and dutiful Edwina, and precociously tantalizing Alicia, who all but winks at him the moment he sets eyes on her.
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Chapter one of this seven-part series, "An Incident at Creede," introduces the other major players in this grim, violent frontier drama, including self-doubting sheriff Bill McNue (Scoot McNairy), his strong-willed widowed sister Mary Agnes (Merritt Wever, who won an Emmy for this role), and Roy's vicious outlaw mentor, Frank Griffin (Jeff Daniels, who also won an Emmy).
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But it's much harder to tell cynical, big-budget stories that are, in essence, about how this sort of storytelling creates easily digestible tales of heroes and villains that ignore how the rich and powerful will always be rich and powerful, and if you somehow join them, your interests will suddenly shift, unless you are an incredibly strong-willed person.
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"Abe himself is just very good at dealing with strong-willed authoritarian leaders," said Michael J. Green, a former Asia adviser to President George W. Bush and now at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, referring to Mr. Abe's relationships with leaders including President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.
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That is, it manages to present a cross-section of the chosen region's artistic output without reliance on stereotypical images; without pandering to preconceptions (which, for Finland in particular, tend to circle around the suomi-kuva or national image of the "strong-willed, taciturn, hard-drinking individual who has the cool head to cut through undue fuss, theatrical behavior, and exaggeration," as Richard Lewis put it in Finland, Cultural Lone Wolf).
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Since the book is based on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, a tale in which the strong-willed, ahead-of-her-time Elizabeth Bennet is allowed to choose her own husband (yes, she must be granted this privilege by her father, but it represents one small step/giant leap for womankind in the 1800s), one would think Bridget Jones' Diary would be hailed as a triumph of '90s feminism.
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Twenty years ago, I spent most of my time with nonnative travelers: a couple of strong-willed Italian women whom I met haggling in the medina; two Japanese women that we joined up with for a trek into the Sahara, the last part by camel; Spanish students on a budget even tighter than mine (one night we dined on canned tuna and r'ghayef, Moroccan flatbread, on a medina sidewalk).
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"We'll catch ourselves saying, 'Oh for heaven's sake, wait until you're old enough and you have to pay a mortgage and then you're going to think it's no big deal,' but to them, their whole world right now is middle school so they can't even think in terms of what we're talking to them about sometimes," said Tobias, who taught high school for eight years and has written 13 books about learning styles and strong-willed children.
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