Iron Lady

iron lady English Proper noun Iron Lady 1 A nickname given to various female leaders, indicating that they are strong-willed and unyielding. en 2003 American Journal of International Law 97 International Decisions: Prosecutor v. Plavsic 929 Nancy Amoury Combs Known as the "Serbian Iron Lady" as a result of her hard-line nationalism and rabidly anti-Muslim views, Plavsic was a close ally of Radovan Karadzic. en 2008 Golda Meir: The Iron Lady of the Middle East Elinor Burkett 1906142130 (see title) en 2016 Hiding in Plain Sight: The Pursuit of War Criminals from Nuremberg Eric Stover; Victor Peskin; Alexa Koenig 322 0520962761 Like her husband, Simone—once called the Iron Lady and known for her fiery speeches—faced four counts of crimes against humanity for being an indirect co-perpetrator in murder, rape, and other sexual violence, as well as a range of other inhumane acts. en especially Margaret Thatcher. en 2003 Tony Benn New Edition David Powell 159 0826470742 On the lawn of the White House, with the Iron Lady beside him, Reagan may have pledged that Britain and the USA would 'stand side by side' in defending freedom -- just so long as it was on US terms. en 2013 Story of a Death Foretold: The Coup Against Salvador Allende, 11 September 1973 Oscar Guardiola-Rivera 376 1408830086 On 16 October 1998, twenty-five years after he left the presidential palace in Santiago to tell the world the story of the Chilean Revolution, Joan Garcés sent to the Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón a petition asking for the urgent questioning of General Augusto Pinochet, who was preparing to leave London after a back operation and afternoon tea with his admirer, ex-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Over tea and scones, an older Pinochet told the Iron Lady that opinion polls predicted that Chile could have its first socialist president since 1973. en 2013 Margaret Thatcher: Power and Personality Jonathan Aitken 372 1408831856 Using the metaphor of metalurgy he had deployed in the epic parliamentary debate at the start of the war, he rose at Prime Minister's Questions on 17 June to remind the House how he had predicted that the Falklands crisis should determine what metal the Iron Lady was made of. en 2017 Margaret Thatcher: The Iron Lady 2806290015 In March 1981, she was put to the test for the first time: Bobby Sands (1954-1981), an Irish republican prisoner, and his comrades began a hunger strike in order to obtain the status of political prisoners, thus showing their desire to receive better treatment. But the Iron Lady remained unmoved and ignored their request. The iron maiden at Nuremberg. en 1918 The Sketch - Volume 102 232 As Mrs. Degen stoutly declared, those seeking German embraces would do well to remember the Iron Lady of Nuremberg. en 1922 The Cosmopolitan - Volume 72 21 The enterprising young reporter jubilantly began constructing a substantial iron net on the frail foundation of circumstantial evidence and that net began to close as tight as the Iron Lady of Nuremburg round Dean Cardigan. en 1993 Occasion, chance and change: a memoir 1902-1946 Henry Colyton 36–37 Then it was arranged that I should do a short tour of the unspoilt medieval towns of northern Bavaria – Bamberg, Rothenburg and Nuremberg where I saw the original machine of torture, the Iron Lady, with its horrific spikes all pointing inwards from the metal shell. en 2008 Stepping Stones to Injustice Ginger Reid-Parker; D. H. Reid 438 1304925765 The Iron Lady has iron spikes and I don't need holes for air-conditioning my body. en Margaret Thatcher Nicknames for individuals