Sentence examples for acb from inspiring English sources
Reversal of the phase sequence from abc to acb reverses the direction of the torque.
Mr Kien co-founded one of Vietnam's most successful private lenders, Asia Commercial Bank (ACB), whose shareholders include such multinationals as Standard Chartered, a British bank.In response to his arrest, rumours swirled, the stockmarket tumbled, interbank lending seized up and some ACB depositors withdrew their money.
So off strode Mr Packer to redesign cricket as he thought it should be.In World Series Cricket, which ran for two seasons before the ACB caved in, the players wore pink and yellow, and the ball was white.
Yet the recent unease really began with the arrest on August 20th of Nguyen Duc Kien, a flamboyant businessman and founder of the Asia Commercial Joint-Stock Bank (ACB), one of the country's largest.
Even though he left the board of the ACB last year, Mr Kien's detention on vague charges of "illegal business" was enough to start a run on the bank and a plunge in the Vietnam Ho Chi Minh stockmarket index (the mind boggles at what the great Marxist would have thought of having it named after him).
Vietnam's central bank tried to reassure depositors that Mr Kien's alleged wrongdoing was not related to ACB and that their money was safe.
Opponents of irradiation say, though, that the meat in those tests did not have enough of the substances considered in the European tests -- 2-ACB's (alkylcyclobutanones) -- to determine its safety.
Those fed 2-ACB's developed bigger and more complex tumors, and three times as many of them.
But in a telephone interview, the leader of the study, Dr. Francis Raul, research director at the French National Institute of Health in Strasbourg, France, said he and his fellow researchers called for more study of 2-ACB's.
The only way to determine the effects of a lifetime's exposure to questionable substances like 2-ACB's, they say, is to test them in an isolated form.
Some rats were then fed 2-ACB's, while others were not.
