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Corbie


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Corby

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  • (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.

Corbiestep


Definition:

  • (n.) One of the steps in which a gable wall is often finished in place of a continuous slope; -- also called crowstep.

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