(n.) A bracket supporting a superincumbent object, or receiving the spring of an arch. Corbels were employed largely in Gothic architecture.
(v. t.) To furnish with a corbel or corbels; to support by a corbel; to make in the form of a corbel.
Example Sentences:
(1) Right faction pushes to use Young Labor for votes majority at national conference Read more “This change to Labor platform would set two key goals, a 50% reduction in carbon emissions on a 2000 baseline year by 2030, and 50% renewables by the same year,” Corbell told a clean energy summit in Sydney on Wednesday.
(2) The ACT’s deputy chief minister, Simon Corbell, has called on the federal leadership to adopt the Lean position next weekend.
(3) Corbell has not spoken to Brandis directly about the fifth tranche of anti-terrorism laws, but said his department had raised concerns about lowering the age of control orders to 14.
(4) Passengers using regional rail services, however, might well complain that because the great train shed at St Pancras is given over, lock, stock and corbel, to Eurostar services, they have been demoted to platforms under a new, flat concrete, steel and glass roof, described as a "magic carpet" by its architects, set at the very far end of the station and seemingly closer to Manchester than Euston Road.
(5) The ACT attorney general, Simon Corbell, told Guardian Australia there had been a “significant level of harmonisation” in police power and detention laws, and NSW’s threat to break away would represent a “very significant departure” in that harmonisation.
(6) From the dust and soot of the Euston Road rose a Railway Age cathedral, cloth hall and castle, all hammered and crafted into a convincing and enthralling whole, borrowing spires, arches, corbels and crockets from Amiens, Brussels, Ypres and all cardinal gothic points south through the Alps to Verona and Venice.
(7) "Regardless of what happens in the high court, the significance of this moment will remain and send a strong signal about what a contemporary 21st century Australia should look like," ACT attorney-general Simon Corbell said.
(8) Serological comparison of the prototype and an epizootic (Corbell) strain of simian hemorrhagic fever virus revealed that the two viruses were serologically similar.
(9) Serological comparison of the prototype virus grown in tissue culture and its homologous antibody and the prototype and Corbell viruses recovered from rhesus monkey serum and their homologous antibodies showed differences and suggest that a complex relationship exists which has not yet been defined.
(10) It is a leap of faith now to accept Simon Corbell’s assurances that the amendments will make this bill lawful when he’s spent the last few weeks arguing against the need for any such amendments,” Hanson said during the debate.
(11) The prototype strain differs from the Corbell strain in that the latter cannot be cultivated in vitro.
(12) It is very difficult to see justification in extending control orders to people of this age,” Corbell said, adding that children of that age could not independently form the intent required for political and religious extremism.
(13) Hanson criticised Corbell for producing amendments at the last minute, saying they prevented proper scrutiny by the assembly.
(14) It’s a corbelled pigsty,” says Duane Fitzsimons next day, pointing out a tiny medieval stone building near the lighthouse.
(15) The ACT attorney general, Simon Corbell, said the amendments were intended to make it clear that the two legal regimes, the territory law and the commonwealth’s Marriage Act, were envisaged to work concurrently.
(16) Corbell said the territory’s move posed no threat to the commonwealth – and it had been established that the regulation of relationships was a shared power.
Corbie
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Corby
Example Sentences:
(1) In the prime minister's reply, he said it was with "enormous regret that I accept your resignation as the member of parliament for Corby and East Northamptonshire, a seat that had been Labour for 13 years before you.
(2) Two recession-hit years later, One Nation Labour has high hopes of getting Corby back.
(3) After a dramatic day which saw police swarm Seven properties across Sydney searching for proof Schapelle Corby had been paid for an interview, Seven West Media boss Tim Worner said that the police action had come as a total surprise because the Seven had cooperated with the inquiry fully.
(4) The HQ of the Corby Grampian Association suggests a small slice of urban Scotland, cut from its moorings and dropped hundreds of miles south of the border.
(5) The Seven network has denied it has an agreement for an exclusive interview with Schapelle Corby’s family after federal police raided its offices in Sydney as part of an investigation into proceeds of crime.
(6) The company's 340-strong workforce, including 120 at its Corby factory, were left with an uncertain future after a firm offer failed to materialise from a suitor in Hong Kong, its distributor YGM Trading, despite an informal agreement being signed.
(7) It is divided between the mainly Labour-supporting town of Corby itself, and outlying villages in which the Conservative vote is housed.
(8) Miliband regards Labour's victory in Corby as symbolically significant.
(9) In this corner of the constituency, they are not exactly sorry to see her go: when I mention her name to a four-strong crew of lunchtime drinkers, a volley of voices comes back at me, in a flash: "She let Corby down … She never liked Corby, as opposed to the more rural areas – the Conservative strongholds … Corby was too working class for her."
(10) The former Tory MP Louise Mensch, who gave up her Corby seat in August to live with her husband in the US, was among those who took to Twitter to criticise Dorries's decision.
(11) That said, Stuart is keen to stress that he has not lost touch with his roots in the 37 years since he moved to Corby.
(12) There were attempts at sending stuff to sign but they never ended up signing them.” A Seven source said the Corby family had declined to sign any financial agreement with Seven because they were “concerned about the proceeds of crime legislation”.
(13) Photograph: Corbis Morrison was once the mother of teenage boys; has the Trayvon Martin killing revived memories for her?
(14) Corby is seen as a key swing constituency that is likely to be vital to the party's chances of winning the 2015 general election.
(15) But Mensch was, if only briefly, Corby's MP – and her resignation triggered the byelection next Thursday that will provide this parliament's first solid indicator of the state of play between Labour and the Tories.
(16) The overall picture is again, as at Corby, of Labour doing well but not yet well enough to win a working Westminster majority.
(17) In agreement with a previous report by Corbi et al.
(18) Given the propensity of byelections to act as rallying points for protest voting against the government of the day, Corby is therefore very much Labour's to lose.
(19) Despite claiming a Corby trouser press – and the Telegraph's best efforts – he survived the MPs' expenses scandals with the 418th ranking out of 650 for total expenses.
(20) Visiting Corby this week, Ed Miliband was keen to play down expectations that Labour is a shoo-in for the byelection caused by Louise Mensch's resignation, the Guardian reported.