Sentence examples for heath from inspiring English sources

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.

His party had seen the need in the mid-1960s to set Heath, their own meritocrat, to catch Labour's formidable Wilson, and that confrontation dominated a decade of British parliamentary life.

The third, and by far the most sensational, gesture compelled Heath to sack him from the shadow cabinet in April 1968, because of the 'rivers of blood' speech he made in Birmingham about immigration.

So when it came to the leadership election, most Conservative MPs bought Airey Neave's reassuring message that her candidature was just intended to shake up the unpopular Heath.

Mr Heath, partly through bad advice and partly because he was convinced he could win an election against the unions, rejected Murray's plan.

Mr Heath tried to devise a pay policy which would be generally acceptable, but was particularly geared towards the National Union of Mineworkers, then a massive power within the union movement.

GWS were down a man from halfway through the first half after experienced defender Heath Shaw was taken from the ground.

Ryan Heath, a spokesman for the EU's digital commissioner, Neelie Kroes, said the internet tax was "bad in principle" and could hinder economic growth.

The event's line-up included the Basics featuring Kris Schroeder, along with band-mates Wally De Backer (aka Gotye) and Tim Heath.

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.

However, they all managed to work together in the negotiations that led, in December 1973, to the Sunningdale Agreement, brokered by the Conservative prime minister Ted Heath (obituary, July 18), and in the shortlived power-sharing executive that took office in January 1974.