Michael Howard
Michael Howard
Michael Howard, Baron Howard of Lympne CH PC QCis a British politician who served as the Leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition from November 2003 to December 2005. He had previously held cabinet positions in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major, including Secretary of State for Employment, Secretary of State for the Environment and Home Secretary...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth7 July 1941
community continued felt stayed support work
I probably would have stayed in the community and continued to work there had I felt support at all levels.
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Proof of Concept testing is a critical step in the design and development process, helping to get the design job done right the first time. No vendor can afford to let customers detect problems after the switches and routers are deployed on an enterprise backbone. Neither can manufacturers afford unnecessary delays in going to market.
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We have made it absolutely clear. We think 28 days is the absolute limit of what should be permitted.
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We have seen the slow seepage of his authority turn into a hemorrhage.
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We didn't win - and let's be honest with each other: We didn't even come close to winning.
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You are the deals-on-wheels Prime Minister - no wonder the Chancellor isn't a happy eater!
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would be a huge gamble with people's jobs and mortgages, putting the whole economy at risk.
churchill margaret
What (Winston) Churchill did in wartime, Margaret Thatcher did in peacetime.
detention maximum period
We have consistently said that a 28-day period of detention is the maximum period that we would support.
government law history
People often of masterful intelligence, trained usually in law or economics or perhaps in political science, who have led their governments into disastrous decisions and miscalculations because they have no awareness whatever of the historical background, the cultural universe, of the foreign societies with which they have to deal.
writing past thinking
History is what we read, write and think about the past.
elements common language
A common language is the most obvious binding element in any society.
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I will never stand again for the leadership of the Conservative Party.
hands bravery important
The important thing when you are going to do something brave is to have someone on hand to witness it.