Sentence examples for harold from inspiring English sources

And who was Harold, anyway?

Harold has already come back from the other side and now it was Madge's turn.

Shortly before Heath became prime minister in 1970, the third British application to join the Common Market had been submitted by Labour's Harold Wilson.

Pop music has always been a prescient form – the Beatles signalled the coming of Harold Wilson's Labour government, punk the rise of Thatcherism, and Britpop soundtracked the birth of New Labour – so it seems appropriate that the rise of posh in pop culture should chime with the ascendancy of the current Tory leadership.

Though it helped Harold Wilson defeat Edward Heath it fed industrial militancy and led to the winter of discontent and the Labour government's defeat in 1979.

Harold Macmillan, asked what the biggest challenge is for any leader, famously replied: "Events, my dear boy, events".

And Harold Pinter's 2006 performance in Krapp's Last Tape reminded us that the Upstairs, because of its close-up nature, can be a venue for great acting.

Leaving aside the fact that Harold Wilson won four elections – although not in a row – I seem to recall a remark by Kenneth Clarke that the Tories were in such bad shape in 1997 that Labour could have won with a monkey as leader.

But hardly predictable, even for a middle-class, privileged boy, who plays cricket in Harold Pinter's cricket team, The Gaieties.

Local fisherman Harold Benson is still traumatised by the events of 5 February 2004.

The resulting Profumo affair heralded the fall of Harold Macmillan's Tory government, and with it a substantial erosion of the deference shown to the upper classes.