What's the difference between corrie and lorrie?

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.

Lorrie


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Lorry

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Aldi is able to order this selection, more than 90% of which is own-label products, through bulk-buying, while dictating the package size in order to fit the maximum amount of goods on its shelves and lorries in order to keep costs low.
  • (2) He was on more certain statistical ground when he said that, since 2010, more than half the bike deaths in London have happened when lorries turned left across cyclists.
  • (3) Lorry drivers showed excess deaths from stomach cancer (SMR 141, p less than 0.05), lung cancer (SMR 159, p less than 0.05), bronchitis, emphysema, and asthma (SMR 143, p less than 0.05), a pattern not evident among taxi drivers.
  • (4) He lost contact with his father, a lorry driver, for several years, but says that his mother - aided by his uncle - made it her mission to shield him from the crime and disorder around them.
  • (5) Thirty-two Turkish lorry drivers who were seized in Mosul on 6 June were released a month later.
  • (6) She added that the superstore would have pulled business from the local high street and brought big lorries and heavy traffic to the site which sits next to Dreamland, Margate’s derelict amusement park which is being revived.
  • (7) If the amount of meat we produce doubles, livestock could be responsible for half as much climate impact as all the world's cars, lorries and airplanes.
  • (8) We have got people trying to illegally enter our country and here in Britain we have got lorry drivers and holidaymakers facing potential delays.
  • (9) British freight transport chiefs said the industry was losing £750,000 a day because of the huge problems lorry drivers have faced this summer trying to cross the Channel.
  • (10) When she made her official announcement to the press, even passing lorry drivers shouted good luck.
  • (11) Next to these disasters, the odd jostle to climb on to a refrigerated lorry in Calais, which recently was depicted as a hideous national crisis, is a minor issue.
  • (12) George Osborne is expected to announce in his budget next week that driverless lorries will be tested on UK roads.
  • (13) Emergency actions to reduce the health impacts included free public transport, reduced traffic speeds, lorry bans in the city centre, a ban on wood burning and four days of alternating bans on cars with odd or even number plates.
  • (14) Lorries carrying concrete blocks were visible in neighbourhoods across occupied east Jerusalem, including around Jabel Mukaber, home to one of the two Palestinians involved in Tuesday’s bus attack.
  • (15) The Met said the operation, at three busy locations, was intended "provide road safety advice", with lorries and cars also stopped.
  • (16) Aid workers were killed in the attack, lorries destroyed and there was severe damage to a medical clinic and warehouse where supplies were being unloaded.
  • (17) A lorry driver on the A706 was killed after a vehicle overturned on top of two cars at the Bogton roundabout in Bathgate, West Lothian, at 8.10am on Thursday.
  • (18) About 60 officers from Lancashire police are stationed at the site most days trying to strike the balance between facilitating peaceful protest and allowing Cuadrilla to continue its legal business activities – currently a regular flow of lorry deliveries, which are regularly stopped by demonstrators lying in the road.
  • (19) Hungarian police have arrested the driver of a lorry found on an Austrian motorway with the decomposing bodies of 71 people, including a baby girl, inside.
  • (20) When they drive you from the detention centre to the courthouse, this is what happens: reveille even before the communal breakfast, stewing in your own sweat while hunched over in the "beaker" [a minuscule isolation cell for special prisoners inside the prisoner transport lorry], transport through the Moscow traffic jams – a minimum of two hours.

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