Sentence examples for 1986 from inspiring English sources

She said the existing system made it unlikely that an immigration overhaul could unleash a new wave of illegal migration, like the surge since the amnesty of 1986.

Probably the most daring of all of the great escapes from La Santé was that of Michel Vaujour in 1986, whose wife, Nadine, swooped into the courtyard to snatch him up in a helicopter she was piloting.

Norway and Iceland maintain commercial whaling programmes in spite of the 1986 International Whaling Commission (IWC) moratorium, but Japan insists its programme is scientific, while admitting that the resulting meat ends up on plates back at home.

The real ending of the cold war was in 1986, when the USSR leadership resolved on a five-year programme to move to parliamentary democracy and a market economy.

In 1986, Gloria Steinem wrote that if men got periods, they "would brag about how long and how much": that boys would talk about their menstruation as the beginning of their manhood, that there would be "gifts, religious ceremonies" and sanitary supplies would be "federally funded and free".

For anyone needing a reminder of his brilliance at this stage of his career it's worth reliving his man-of-the-match display in the 1986 FA Cup final, which Liverpool won 3-1 against Everton to seal the Double.

England have not finished ahead since 1986, when the Games were last held in Scotland and 32 teams did not turn up because they were staging a boycott.

The person in charge since 1986 until today is Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni, who is himself a former rebel army leader and came to power by force.

Axel was born in Århus, Denmark, but spent most of his childhood in France, where he learned to speak fluent French, a gift that would enable him to make a number of films for French television from 1977 to 1986.

But it was in Europe that the club really punched above their weight, reaching two Uefa Cup quarter-finals, and losing a controversial 1984 European Cup semi-final second leg in Rome, a match that was still being investigated in relation to bribery allegations as the 1986-87 seapproachedapproached

Taken from a chapter on the Country Diary in Ian Mayes's forthcoming history of the Guardian, dealing mainly with the period from 1986.