Sentence examples for Barber from inspiring English sources

Willis was born in Hayes, then in Middlesex, the son of Jim, a barber and council worker, and Kate, who worked in laundries and canteens and whom Norman described as a "working-class suffragette" and his mentor.

"They happily take our taxes," says Michel, a barber who recently founded a business.

It used to be lined with tousled palms and sprawling almond trees but, since Ivan, it looks like an army barber has given it a number 2. It's still beautiful, just a little close cropped.

Isabelle Huppert was best actress, masochistically obsessed in the film with Benoit Magimel (best actor).Best director was shared by David Lynch's "Mulholland Drive", a "Twin Peaks" lookalike, and Joel Cohen's monochrome "The Man Who Wasn't There" (or "All There"?), about a barber and a 1949 blackmail-murder.

AFTER more than three years as an interpreter for American troops in the city of Falluja, Dave (not his real name) recently had his hair cut for the first time by a local barber.

Jozef Paczynski, a Polish political prisoner at Auschwitz who became the personal barber to camp commander Rudolf Höss, has died.

The TUC's general secretary, Brendan Barber, said: "There are no green shoots here.

For Lynn Barber in the Sunday Times, "the childhood he describes in this haunting memoir sounds almost Dickensian – the constant gnawing hunger, the slop bucket in the bedroom … The book ends at this point so we learn nothing of his later career in politics … but we know enough to wish that all politicians could be like Alan Johnson.

It follows the philosophy promoted by the US academic Benjamin Barber and the Brookings Institute's Bruce Katz that national government has had its day, and a mayor, at city level, is best placed to react to the situation on the ground, providing the local politics needed to get things done.

State guards Cat Barber and Desmond Lee shared a long embrace after buzzer.

Richard Barber, a trustee at HFT, reminded delegates that more should be done to attract young people to boards: "Young trustees find it difficult to step up to the plate, but employees see it as a benefit".