What's the difference between corbie and corrie?

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.

Corrie


Definition:

  • (n.) Same as Correi.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) His mother is Denise Welch, late of Corrie and Loose Women, and his father his Tim Healy, who was briefly famous 30 years ago for his role in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.
  • (2) Rachel Corrie died trying to protect a Palestinian home from demolition [see footnote].
  • (3) He went on to heap blame on Corrie for her own killing, arguing that, contrary to what "any reasonable person would have done", she "chose to put herself in danger" by trying to impede "a military activity meant to prevent terrorist activity".
  • (4) All of this, writes McGreal, shows how "covering up the truth about the killings of innocents, including Corrie, became an important part of the survival strategy because of the damage the truth could do to the military's standing, not only in the rest of the world but also among Israelis."
  • (5) Corrie was struck by dirt and a slab of concrete resulting in her death."
  • (6) As the family of Rachel Corrie are the first to admit, Gazan families who have lost their children have had no opportunity of taking legal action against Israel.
  • (7) For all the shows that made her into a household name – beginning with At Home With the Braithwaites, greenlit in 1999 – it was writing for Corrie, from 1994, that made her feel “I’d been noticed by the industry.
  • (8) You can imagine therefore how thrilled I was when Katherine Kelly – the former Becky Granger in Corrie, who spent six years wailing mournfully then angrily then mournfully again on the cobbles – turns up here as the stony-faced DI Shackleton.
  • (9) Tonight the Rachel Corrie, an Irish vessel crewed by supporters of the Free Gaza movement, remained on course for Gaza.
  • (10) Scott & Bailey was an idea that she touted when she first left Corrie, but it didn't see the light of day until 2011.
  • (11) The Doctors and Overpopulation Group is distressed by the attempt of Mr. Corrie to amend England's 1967 Abortion Act and recommends that members of the medical profession individually inform their representatives in Parliament of their support for the 1967 Act.
  • (12) "In the interest of the safety of all involved, and the safe transmission of assistance to the people of Gaza, we strongly encourage those on board the Rachel Corrie and other vessels to sail to Ashdod to deliver their materials to Gaza," he said.
  • (13) While she was in the Palestinian territories , Corrie wrote vividly about her experiences.
  • (14) There is a particular entry in Rachel Corrie’s diary, probably written some time in 1999, four years before she was killed by an Israeli bulldozer in the Gaza Strip trying to prevent the demolition of Palestinian homes.
  • (15) Jones admits that she and Corrie co-star Sally Lindsay came up with the concept for the show in the pub, and explains how her own character is reflected in her on-screen persona.
  • (16) The family of the American activist Rachel Corrie , who was killed by an Israeli army bulldozer in Gaza seven years ago, is to bring a civil suit over her death against the Israeli defence ministry.
  • (17) At a meeting at the US embassy in Tel Aviv last week, the ambassador, Dan Shapiro, told Corrie's parents and her sister that the government did not believe the Israeli military investigation had been "thorough, credible and transparent", as had been promised by Israel.
  • (18) Dan Corry, chief executive, NPC "Remuneration in the voluntary sector and particularly the issue of chief executive pay has always been controversial.
  • (19) The Free Gaza Movement said later that one of the ships in the flotilla, the Irish-owned MV Rachel Corrie, was not intercepted, as it had been behind the rest of the vessels following a delay.
  • (20) Even if they had the means to do so, the law has been amended to stop civil actions like the one the Corries mounted.

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