Sentence examples for healey from inspiring English sources

Although Wilson is credited with not having sent troops to Vietnam, Healey hints that he had to stiffen Wilson's resolve.

In common with Kenneth Clarke, who never became leader of the Tories but possesses similar characteristics, Healey was never a member of a clique and did not cultivate colleagues.

So let us rejoice when active politicians prove that they have what Edna Healey calls a "hinterland", and write books about something other than themselves.

As Healey reflected in his memoirs: "It was never easy working with the Liberals… I found it particularly difficult working with their economic spokesman, John Pardoe; he was robust and intelligent enough, but sometimes I felt he was simply Denis Healey with no redeeming features".

Healey is such a broad character, a towering intellectual with deep interests in the arts, and is certainly not one to nurse grudges.

He is usually committed to the principle of Buggins's turn, and would probably feel he must allow Mr Healey the Exchequer because he has done the homework for the job.

Jake Healey, a student at the University of West England, says: "Shyness depends on the situation – meeting new people, fear of them not liking me, wanting to make a good first impression".

In this case it was Denis Healey, the chancellor from 1974 to 1979, who, in addition to grappling with the inflationary consequences of the quintupling of oil prices in 1973-74, also had to deal with the demands of powerful trade unions and unhelpful policy suggestions from the Liberals.

John Healey, Labour's shadow health secretary, welcomed Dr Foster's disclosure that 30% fewer hospitals than in 2008-09 have unexpectedly high death rates.

Probably not," adds Lord Healey in the Independent, taking issue with the notion that Lord Jenkins "prefigured" Blairism: "The SDP did not create New Labour: it delayed it.

The New Fabian Essays of 1952, edited by Anthony Crosland, helped to reinvigorate debate on the left after the fall of the Attlee government: its contributors included Roy Jenkins, Ian Mikardo, Richard Crossman and Denis Healey.