Assertion: town's area | /r/CapableOf | gain the epithet
Facets:
value: during the 1980s
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: For much of its history the council was controlled by the Labour Party, and was noted for its leftist sympathies; during the 1980s, when Sheffield City Council was led by David Blunkett, the area gained the epithet the "Socialist Republic of South Yorkshire".