• Iron Lady

Iron Lady (suomeksi)

Määritelmät:

• (n-g, A nickname given to various female leaders, indicating that they are strong-willed and unyielding.)
• (lb, en, especially) (w, Margaret Thatcher).
• * (quote-book, year=2003 , title=Tony Benn New Edition , author=David Powell , page=159 , ISBN=0826470742 , passage=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. )
• * (quote-book, year=2013 , title=Story of a Death Foretold: The Coup Against Salvador Allende, 11 September 1973 , author=Oscar Guardiola-Rivera , page= , ISBN=1408830086 , passage=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 Garce/s sent to the Spanish judge Baltasar Garzo/n a petition asking fot he urgent quetioning of General Augusto Pinochet, who was preparing to leave London after a back operation and afternoon tea with his admirer, ex-Prim 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. )
• * (quote-book, year=2013 , title=Margaret Thatcher: Power and Personality , author=Jonathan Aitken , page=372 , ISBN=1408831856 , passage=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. )
• * (quote-book, year=2017 , title=Margaret Thatcher: The Iron Lady , author= , page= , ISBN=2806290015 , passage=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.