Sentence examples for aad from inspiring English sources

The city's distinctive heritage is also echoed in its dialect (which even other Germans often struggle to understand), and in local dishes such as himmel un aad – literally "heaven and earth", actually black pudding with apple and mashed potato.

Research programmes in the Antarctic are mostly controlled and supported by government-funded agencies, such as the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) and the British Antarctic Survey, which also maintain a network of permanent bases around the continent.

Fleming added that the rescue operation would have a lot to teach the AAD about its specifications for future icebreaker ships.

The AAD will issue a report about the rescue at the annual Antarctic Treaty meeting, due to be held in April in Brasilia.

Fleming said the diversion of the ship to the rescue effort had affected several ongoing science projects, though the AAD was doing all it could to minimise any further disruptions.

Once there, it will be given instructions by the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) on where to go next.

Aad Van Bohemen, who heads the emergency policy division at the International Energy Agency, said France had been forced to reach into its 30-day emergency supplies of fuel at depots because of the strikes at the refineries.

This performance, said Aad Jacobs, the former equity analyst who runs ING, "not quite satisfies what we envisaged".

Others show far away places, like the Davis Station in the wastes of Antarctica (www.antdiv.gov.au/aad/exop/sfo/davis/video.html) or the Western Wall in Jerusalem (www.thewall.org).org

These types of investigations are routinely prompted when a company's stock drops 5percentt or more, Aad Jacobs, chairman of Shell's audit committee, said at the conference.

"The investigation is proceeding as scheduled," Aad Jacobs said in a telephone interview.