Although she did not stand for election herself, Ms Sturgeon visited London to present the SNP's new delegation of 56 MPs to Parliament, where it is now the third largest party.
Her first passion was for socialist politics: as a young woman at secretarial college, she volunteered to type letters for the Labour MP Herbert Morrison and planned to stand for election herself one day.
With Bhutto's brilliant, popular, Harvard-educated daughter now pledging to stand for election herself, Zia was trapped in a quandary.
She was also pretty woolly about what she herself stood for, depicting herself largely as a competent technocrat who was bound to win.In this section From slogan to legacy One, two... Arnold the Bold Here's to you, Mr Robertson Trailer-home chic Is Rossi close to heaven?
The trouble was, Smith's motivations were never to stand for anything but herself, particularly not any political movement, however worthy.
Clinton cited her mother in at least one ad during the campaign, saying that her mother had taught her to stand up for herself and to stand up for those who needed help.
Shirley couldn't stand up for herself, so Peggy stood up for her.
As she makes abundantly clear in the epilogue, Clinton may herself stand for President in 2016.
He cannot resist her interest in finding out who he is, even as he makes her stand for something other than herself.
O'Keeffe was reluctant to stand for anything other than herself, yet she was open to the world — its places, people, and ideas.
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.
