Dr. Rantisi, 56, did not have the stature and authority of Sheik Yassin, who in 1987 established Hamas, an acronym for the Islamic Resistance Movement.
India and France have established IFCPAR (French acronym: CEFIPRA), a new bilateral program to encourage scientific cooperation between the two countries.
To overcome the disparity — and with the hope of expanding its audience into more corners of the globe — the governing body for track and field, known by its acronym, I.A.A.F., established eight training centers, including the one here, to give promising athletes like Montsho access to better resources.
This partnership also marks another development in the rapidly-expanding world of MOOCs - the massive open online courses - an acronym sufficiently established to have made it into the Oxford online dictionary last week.
The PICO and SPICE acronyms are established models for aiding systematic searches [ 10].
Trying to establish when the acronym 'DDoS' (Distributed Denial of Service) was very first used is not as easy as you might think.
(i.e. celebrating Christmas)" The private-schools association, known by the acronym Tapps, was established in the 1970s to coordinate sports among Christian schools.
Edward Nshirimirana, identified by AFP as a former army colonel, told the French wire service that a new group, the Republican Forces of Burundi (Forebu by its French acronym) had been established in order to depose the government of Pierre Nkurunziza.
The Basque Nationalist Party (commonly known by the combined Basque and Spanish acronym, EAJ-PNV) was established in 1895 in Bilbao by journalist Sabino de Arana y Goiri to contest local elections.
However, because the use of the acronym ANA is firmly established and universally used, replacement by an alternative terminology will not be easy.
