Pasionaria
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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In an attempt to remedy this injustice, Blouin's memoir, titled My Country, Africa: Autobiography of the Black Pasionaria, is being re-released, having spent decades out of print.
From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2025
"We got hit so many times, a weaker team would have been on their knees," the coach Míchel said, turning all La Pasionaria.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 26, 2010
La Pasionaria has been nominated by the Spanish Communist Party as a candidate in the June 15 parliamentary elections in her old constituency, the northern mining region of Asturias.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the barricades, dressed in jeans and boots, stood Ulster's own La Pasionaria: M. P. Bernadette Devlin, 22, who won election to the British Parliament last spring on a platform of equality for Catholics.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dolores Ibarruri, 68, the firebrand who was known as La Pasionaria in the Spanish Civil War, now looks like someone's kind old grandmother.
From Time Magazine Archive
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