Sentence examples for 1985 from inspiring English sources

Algeria left the forerunner of the EEC when it became independent in 1962; the 56,000 residents of Greenland departed in 1985; the French Caribbean colony of Saint Barthelemy (which, with nearly 10,000 inhabitants, has as roughly the same population as Glastonbury, in Somerset) formally exited the EU in 2012.

Like that of the Holocaust itself, the story of Terezín's music revealed itself only slowly over time – and was not widely known until Czech violinist Joza Karas published a book in 1985, Music in Terezín.

The 1985 Bears were bona fide pop cultural icons – punky QB Jim McMahon would join the show later that season ahead of Super Bowl while Walter Payton and Mike Ditka also made appearances – yet none came with the fanfare of Chicago's 335lb defensive tackle and occasional short-yardage runner.

"With the South Wales miners at the 1985 Labour party conference, we put gay rights on the agenda.

One of the main failings in the criminal justice response to this abhorrent form of sexual abuse is that, having criminalised the practice in 1985, all concerned sat back and waited for a little girl to walk into a police station and tell a strange adult what her mummy and daddy had allowed someone to do to her.

As we move on to the floor mats, lying sideways with our legs up in the air, I feel like it's 1985 and I'm just about to appear on American breakfast TV.

Buhari, who was the petroleum affairs minister in the 1970s, ousted the elected president Shehu Shagari on New Year's Eve in 1983 and ruled a military government until 27 August 1985.

According to administrators and Nadir's trustee in bankruptcy, among the funds transferred without the knowledge of others at Polly Peck were cheques written to the Conservative party between 1985 and 1990.

On the one hand, unionist and loyalist confidence in the British government has never been revived since 1985, while on the other, the constant shots across the bow from a highly confident Sinn Fein have shredded the nerves of those who turned up to protest about the flag being removed.

So it was understandable why, in 2009, Jan Molby was somewhat torn about releasing footage of a goal – his best-ever goal – scored on 26 November 1985 in Liverpool's 2-1 victoverover Manchester United in the fourth round of the Milk Cup.

His record as Nigeria's hard-headed military ruler from 1983 to 1985 lent credence to his promises to crush the Boko Haram insurgency.