| Living in the past and harking back to your mistakes only makes a victim of you. |
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| The Dutchman has engaged in a PR drive over the past seven days, harking back to the special days of Nicholson. |
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| Laws harking back to Prohibition require vintners to sell their wines through state-licensed distributors. |
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| To say that, I recognise, is to risk appearing as a reactionary, someone constantly harking back to a mythical golden age. |
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| Elsewhere, women's dresses and coats, harking back to '50s and '60s styles and stiffened with foam rubber, hung in rows on the wall. |
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| Flowers are particularly prevalent, perhaps a harking back to an earlier source, the distinctive lambamena burial shroud. |
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| How on earth does the party hope to persuade voters it is not an apartheid relic when a third of its sitting MPs still have names harking back to the Verwoerdian era? |
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| The honours system, it says, is anachronistic, harking back to an imperial, class-ridden world. |
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| The songs are shot full of mythic characters and situations, forever harking back to some never-never land long since gone, be it lost love, lost childhood or lost liberty. |
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| But the event was not simply about harking back to the past. |
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| And he is harking back to another past meeting for inspiration. |
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| The striking thing about the poster was paradoxical: it was a novelty on the one hand, and a harking back on the other. |
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| Equivalent ranks in the Royal Artillery are lance-bombardier and bombardier, harking back to the ancient rank of bombardier, a species of trained artilleryman. |
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| Japan's position with regard to the past was well known and there was no point in harking back to the issue. |
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| Such nostalgia is unacceptable, harking back as it does to a world divided into two hostile camps. |
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| Mrs Bresso, President of the Italian region of Piedmont, echoed the view that Europe should not keep harking back to its past. |
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| Would-be knights in shining armour will be jousting for the affections of their lady-loves in tournaments harking back to the days of King Arthur. |
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| The film is fairly conventional in its execution, harking back to the westerns of everyone's youth with its evocative sunsets, campfire conversations and shoot-outs. |
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| The theme of the Russian mafias is particularly in vogue in certain newspapers, rather reminiscent of a journalistic style harking back to the Cold War. |
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| I will end by reiterating that, far from harking back to the days of state control, I am in favour of a regulated world and a future for which we have prepared. |
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| Leprest's new album, Donne-moi de mes nouvelles, finds him harking back to those years, tapping into musical and narrative forms that occasionally date back to the pre-war years. |
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| This is harking back to our ancestral environments when coalitional warfare between two tribes was fairly commonplace and your own fate was really wrapped up in how your coalition fared. |
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| Whether it's swordcraft or Spitfires, mead or musketry, we relish harking back. |
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| When I say Canadians want a fairly traditional family life, I may sound like a right-wing advocate of the traditional family, harking back to days of yore and a world that no longer exists. |
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| Many Indian men are always harking back to a more heroic past. |
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| Business is also booming for commercial carol concerts in non-church settings, where a mince pie and nostalgia are as much the lure as harking the singing of herald angels. |
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| This will seem to some like harking back to the Horatio Alger tradition, but we are not laying down a law that everyone who follows the Alger pattern will become a successful big business man. |
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| Compact and comfortable to hold, handle and use, the PowerShot G7 digital camera is an aesthetic treat as well, harking back to the look and feel of classic Canon cameras. |
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| Harking back to college psych textbooks, you know he is nothing if not a case study in passive aggression. |
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