Sentence examples for shadow sir from inspiring English sources

Denis Healey describing how it felt to be attacked by his Tory shadow, Sir Geoffrey Howe in 1978 "It is not necessary that every time he rises he should give his famous imitation of a semi house-trained polecat".

His Conservative shadow, Sir Ian Gilmour, accused Labour of cutting defence spending by £100m and called on Mulley to resign.

Schadla-Hall still feels the long shadow of Sir Mortimer Wheeler, first director of the Institute.

Eddie on the shadow of Sir Clive Woodward over English rugby: "I would always speak to him and I would love to have a cup of coffee with Clive.

Manchester City, existing in the shadow of Sir Alex Ferguson, the Beckham-busting dictator of Manchester United, has not won the league championship since 1967-68, when the Beatles were still together and England could believe that the miracle 1966 World Cup title would be replicated any time soon, which it never has.

I am sure it is not easy for David Moyes to be under the shadow of Sir Alex.

"She wrote a very good essay on 'The Shadow of Night,' " Sir Harrison said.

While the Shadows paid tribute, Sir Paul McCartney also revealed that both he and George Harrison used Weedon's manuals to learn the chords D and A, while fellow-Beatle John Lennon also freely confessed to learning the guitar from Play in a Day.

Labour's Shadow Education Secretary Tristram Hunt described Sir Michael's comments as "deeply troubling".

The doubters include former army officer John Baron, former shadow home secretary David Davis, Sir Edward Leigh, former cabinet minister Peter Lilley, and Julian Lewis, the chairman of the Commons defence committee.

In a letter to shadow Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude, Sir Gus O'Donnell, the cabinet secretary, said that he and the prime minister had taken steps to ensure the claims that serving ministers and officials had been lobbied were "immediately investigated".