(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.
Cowrie
Definition:
(n.) Same as Kauri.
(n.) Alt. of Cowry
Example Sentences:
(1) It was great: a sort of cryptographic cowrie shell for virtual fish.
(2) If one cowrie shell bought a fish, there wasn't any risk that some fisherman would try to corner the market and push the price of fish up in order to become rich.
(3) Cowrie shells were a 13th-century medium of exchange: they were a fairly effective currency at a time when there was no risk that people might hoard them in order to speculate on their value rising.
(4) It’s an old jetty in the city’s Ikoyi neighbourhood that sticks out into the still waters of Five Cowrie Creek, which separates Lagos Island from the Lekki Peninsula at its westernmost tip.
(5) Look out for "groatie-buckies", small cowrie shells often found here.
(6) But Bitcoin is just a bunch of people trading cryptographic cowrie shells - but now with internet-speed ability to see instantaneous prices, and with a burgeoning desire to spend it on "real" things.