Douglas Hurd
Britishnoun
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Origin of Douglas Hurd
C20: from rhyming slang, after Douglas Hurd (born 1930), British Conservative politician
Example Sentences
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The last British foreign secretary to visit the Falklands was Douglas Hurd in 1994.
From Seattle Times
MI5 had become a "constant target for public comment and scrutiny", wrote then-Home Secretary Douglas Hurd to Mrs Thatcher on 30 March 1988.
From BBC
Douglas Hurd was one of bright young things of the Conservative Party when he wrote a trilogy of novels in the late 1960s.
From BBC
The series, which was based on a novel by the Conservative politician Douglas Hurd, was considered very controversial and has never been repeated.
From BBC
A former Northern Ireland Secretary, Douglas Hurd, once derided Gerry Adams as "Mr 10%" - a sobriquet designed to emphasise that Adams only spoke for a minority of nationalists.
From BBC
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