"THE gele is my trademark," says the Nigerian finance minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, describing the colourful head wrap she puts over her short, greying hair before she allows pictures to be taken.
Every morning at 11.59, she waits for the weather girl to start talking before she allows herself her regular six minutes of pain and regret, swiftly followed by the first glass of wine and the second lie.
As is her wont, Ms. Rendell sends him down dead ends and around tricky curves, through interview after exasperating interview with suspects and witnesses who will prove all but useless, before she allows him to do any genuine crime-solving.
She says there were a lot of discussions before she allowed Scarlett to stay behind; she met Lobo and his aunts, who he lived with and who were happy for Scarlett to stay.
Even before she allowed a 5-1 first-set lead to evaporate, the home crowd hissed at her misses, and it booed her throughout the second set of a 7-5, 6-2 loss to 36th-ranked Magui Serna of Spain.
The case began in 1998, when Rosa Acuna of Bound Brook, a mother of two, sued Sheldon C. Turkish, her gynecologist in Perth Amboy, over an incomplete abortion, and charged that he had not given her sufficient information before she allowed him to perform the abortion.
The difference was that this time I was watching it from behind, so to speak, and near at hand, so I spotted a fresh wealth of luxurious detail, like Ms. Boudreau's very slow descents from half-toe to flat foot and the lusciously gradual archings-back of her head and upper spine before she allowed herself to fall back into Mr. Collwes's arms.
If it's any consolation, the supervisor made me redo it three times before she allowed it to be shipped out.
In the end the collage includes Edgar Allen Poe, Fred Astaire, Karl Marx, Bob Dylan, Lewis Carroll, Jane Mansfield, other British Rockers, and Shirley Temple (who requested to hear the record before she allowed her image to be used).
She insisted that officers come to her rather than the other way around, and expected them to bow, kiss her hand, and bow again before she allowed them to take a seat.
By Jean-Jacques Nduita OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso, 15 April 2009 – Too young to understand the importance of receiving her oral polio vaccination, three-year-old Mouniratou Ouzeita needed some encouragement before she allowed the immunization worker to administer the life-saving drops.
