Sentence examples for 1978 from inspiring English sources

The idea that, deep down, still, there ain't no black in the union jack is reiterated every time a Conservative leader evokes Enoch Powell's grim dystopia – from Margaret Thatcher's 1978 "swamping" statement via William Hague's 2001 "journey to a foreign land" speech to David Cameron's 2011 warning against the "discomfort and disjointedness" created by immigrants into settled neighbourhoods.

In 1978, Mesrine climbed over its walls and went on the run.

"I kept looking at the clock and thinking: 'I can do it, I can do it.'" In the end he had plenty to spare, with Steve Ovett's 8min 13.51sec set in 1978 obliterated by Farah's 8min 07.85sec.

By her second big screen release, The Deer Hunter in 1978, she'd been Oscar-nominated; a year later, she'd won her first.

He travelled with the young hooligans, observed their encounters at close quarters and, in Rules of Disorder (1978), wrote the first detailed report of their rituals and battles.

By the time Shelley was born in 1978, Al had come out as a lesbian - her sexuality, she says, is a determined political stance - and the commune was women-only.

The US Senate on Tuesday passed a bill to end the bulk collection of millions of Americans' phone records, ushering in the country's most significant surveillance reform since 1978 two years after NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden's revelations to the Guardian.

The superstar-in-waiting made his Letterman debut shortly after helping the Yankees to their first World Series since 1978.

By a quirk of timing, I am transcribing letters home to my parents in Stoke, covering the period in 1978-79 that became known as "the winter of discontent".

He is featured as drummer on the live album NYC 1978, which was not released until 2003.

It took 1992 for the nation to forgive 1978-9, and it took 2008 to wipe out the memory of 1992 Dealing with that past will now be a task for his successor.