Sentence examples for 1976 from inspiring English sources

Raymond Carver (1976) Possibly the most economical short story writer in this list, Carver, with his precise, punchy prose, conveys in a few words what many novelists take several pages to elucidate.

For Cubans, the terrorism list was a particularly charged issue because of the US history of supporting exile groups responsible for attacks on the island, including the 1976 bombing of a Cuban passenger flight from Barbados that killed 73 passengers.

The trophies were miniature replicas of the cup first presented at the All England Club in 1887 for his run of wins between 1976 and 1980.

Yes, the US saw John F Kennedy and Richard Nixon show down more than 50 years ago, but after Kennedy's performance and Nixon's narrow loss in the 1960 presidential election, presidential candidates did not participate in another debate until 1976.

JODIE FOSTER 1962- (US) Big break: Taxi Driver (1976) A short life: Disney-trained 13-year-old shocked audiences everywhere as Iris, the child prostitute.

The Wildcats, seeking to become the first team to go undefeated since Indiana in 1976, seemed to be sending a message to the rest of the tournament that everyone else is playing for second place.

His aggressive style and the pro-security services policies he pursued as secretary of state for Northern Ireland from 1976 to 1979 were welcomed by unionists as a protection against creeping integration into the whole of Ireland.

The oil company employs its own librarians at the site who insist that only pre-1976 material on issues such as solar power are available to journalists and the public.

For critics, however – and there are many in his home country – it may have more to do with allegations that he and the Roman Catholic church were guilty of the sin of omission – and perhaps worse – during the brutal military dictatorship from 1976 to 1983.

The photograph of Gary Oldman as Smiley on page 4 of the Review (The truth about spies, 17 September) looked so like Sir William Coldstream when I taught with him in his final years at the Slade school of fine art, UCL, 1974 to 1976.

Estela was a 47-year-old schoolteacher, housewife and mother of three in November 1977 when a death squad from Argentina's 1976-83 dictatorshipickeded her daughter Laura off a street in the city of La Plata where she lived, about 32 miles south of Buenos Aires.