(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.
Crow
Definition:
(v. i.) To make the shrill sound characteristic of a cock, either in joy, gayety, or defiance.
(v. i.) To shout in exultation or defiance; to brag.
(v. i.) To utter a sound expressive of joy or pleasure.
(v. i.) A bird, usually black, of the genus Corvus, having a strong conical beak, with projecting bristles. It has a harsh, croaking note. See Caw.
(v. i.) A bar of iron with a beak, crook, or claw; a bar of iron used as a lever; a crowbar.
(v. i.) The cry of the cock. See Crow, v. i., 1.
(v. i.) The mesentery of a beast; -- so called by butchers.
Example Sentences:
(1) The second reason it makes sense for Osborne not to crow too much is that in terms of output per head of population, the downturn is still not over.
(2) While the papers in this country and the New Yorker were crowing about how Beard had, through her own gutsy initiative, tamed her trolls, another woman – Anita Sarkeesian, a Canadian-American journalist – was being trolled.
(3) The authors decided to keep in this series only hips presenting with a very considerable upward displacement of the femoral head of type IV in Crowe, Maini and Ranawat's classification.
(4) Reasoning ability in crows was investigated by means of the Revecz-Krushinskiĭ test, in which the bird has to apprehend the rule of stimulus (food bait) displacement: "In each next trial the food bait is hidden in a new place--one step further along the row".
(5) When these studies are reviewed in the light of Crow's "two-syndrome" paradigm of schizophrenia, a new trend emerges.
(6) You can argue about what constitutes a race “riot” these days – and why the hell we are seeing teargas every other evening in the suburbs, or Jim Crow-reminiscent police dogs in the year 2014.
(7) The genetic evidence is reviewed concerning 'traditional' clinical subtypes as more novel categories derived from multivariate statistical methods and Crow's type I-type II classification.
(8) "For a lot of people in poorer neighbourhoods we are liberators," crowed Yiannis Lagos, one of 18 MPs from the stridently patriot "popular nationalist movement" to enter the 300-seat house in June.
(9) Intracytoplasmic, rod-shaped and eosinophilic inclusions were recognized only in Purkinje cells in a case of Crow-Fukase syndrome.
(10) But normally, shaven-headed and shaven-faced, he could pass for a jumbo-sized Bob Crow .
(11) Though the starlings looked like a dark swarm of bees, they had two inky blobs in their midst, for they had acquired a pair of crow interlopers.
(12) And as Crow demonstrated, militancy may not guarantee success – but passivity will asphyxiate unions when the workforce needs them to be stronger than ever.
(13) We felt blessed,” said Rebecca, pulling out another family picture in which a smiling Sarah leans her head against her mother’s shoulder, her younger siblings crowing around them.
(14) The leader of the RMT rail union, Bob Crow, said: "The whole sorry and expensive shambles of rail privatisation has been dragged into the spotlight this morning and instead of re-running this expensive circus, the west coast route should be renationalised on a permanent basis."
(15) Oh, and Tony Benn and Bob Crow, when they were alive.
(16) In any case, the Brits are a notoriously lily-livered shower when it comes to workplace politics, too craven to strike – [note to non-British readers: we're a sorry servile bunch, we don't like it up us] - and as a result, poor John's failed coup has led to him becoming the most reviled union leader in British history, ahead of the excellent Bob Crow, the much misunderstood Arthur Scargill, and Gary Neville.
(17) For London's mayor had not only long refused to meet the RMT leader, but only a month before rather encouraged the public to misunderstand him by making hay with Crow's supposedly hypocritical cruise trip and accusing him of "holding a gun" to the head of the capital ?
(18) In contrast, in the adults melatonin caused more than a two-fold increase in E in the pigeon, and a significant increase in the crow.
(19) By noon, the small fish market on shore is packed with black crows nibbling on hundreds of butchered fish heads, shark fins and long red swordfish tongues.
(20) Some of his well-paid members, such as drivers, queried why the union should concern itself with these lower-paid workers whose lack of job security meant they were far more difficult to reach and retain in the union, but Crow, true to his principles, always argued in favour of supporting them.