Sentence examples for indian parlance from inspiring English sources

In official Indian parlance such proof is grimly referred to as "telltale signs".

"All this was jungle" -- a word that in Indian parlance refers to any sort of land in a state of nature.

Promises include: 1. Quotas, or reservations in Indian parlance, for minorities in government jobs in line their representation in the population, and a "reservation within the reservation" for members of lower castes.

The firms' main owners ("promoters" in Indian parlance) are industrial aristocrats; Nusli Wadia of Bombay Dyeing, a textile and petrochemicals company that is one of Mr Bajoria's quarries, is a grandson of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Pakistan's founder.

The shootings, known in the peculiar parlance of Indian law enforcement as "encounter killings," come as pressure mounts on Indian officials to respond to a spate of terrorist attacks around the country.

"Super-hit!", in Indian box-office reporting parlance.

If you didn't know that A.B.C.D., in the parlance of Indian-American college students, is a mildly derisive abbreviation for American-Born Conflicted Desi, the shambling romantic comedy "American Desi" is here to teach you.

The jungle terrain of Vietnam -- "Indian country" in American soldiers' parlance -- was an uncrossable frontier, the North Vietnamese Army an unassailable enemy.

Many of the institutions were run by the Catholic Church, which the government paid to "kill the Indian, save the man," in the parlance of the day.

Mr. Bachchan is, in popular parlance, the king of Indian cinema.

James Yorkston tells of hosting Suhail Yusuf Khan at his house in Anstruther ahead of this Celtic Connections festival date, and while washing the dishes, absent-mindedly scalding his hand and cursing in the local parlance: "Ooh, ya bandit!" His Indian guest for some reason looked out of the window.