Sentence examples for 1984 from inspiring English sources
noun
A totalitarian or dystopic society, especially when characterised by intense surveillance of its citizens. Also used attributively.
Since 1984 Dateline has pioneered the low-cost alternative to camera crews – video journalists – winning countless awards along the way, including the Gold Walkley for Mark Davis and 18 Walkley awards.
Supt Treble said Field's past pattern of offending was unusual in that he had been prepared to take on two victims at once when he tried to snatch the two teenage boys in 1984.
The campaign continued in the north of Matabeleland during the remainder of 1983 with Fifth Brigade troops re-deployed to the south in 1984.
The restlessness of youth, the landscape of the north, parents, class, the 1984 miners' strike (over long before she was born), and peripheral glimpses of the animal world are some of the poetic concerns of a collection that never becomes parochial or narrowly autobiographical.
The 1984 cabinet papers, released to the National Archives, show that Thatcher asked for contingency plans to be drawn up to use troops to move coal stocks, despite official government policy ruling out the use of service personnel.
There were Brothers Johnson reunions at various points, and new albums were released by the group in 1984, 1988 and 2002, although they met with limited success.
JACKIE COOGAN 1914-1984 (USA) Big break: The Kid (1921) A short life: As the cute kid in the big cap alongside Chaplin in The Kid, Coogan became massive internationally at the age of six.
They organised an all-women rally and march through Barnsley on 12 May 1984, and invited women's support groups from all over the country to join them.
The first came in July 1984, when Britain's dockers joined the miners on strike.
Thatcher told MacGregor in March 1984, according to the documents: "It was essential to stiffen the resolve of chief constables to ensure that they fulfilled their duty to uphold the law".
In response to reading the "Box 500 report" – the colloquial term for MI5 briefing notes – on 1 November 1984, the prime minister insisted her cabinet secretary, Sir Robert Armstrong, "consider urgently whether there is any way these developments could be prevented, whether by denunciation or otherwise".
