Sentence examples for language abbreviation from inspiring English sources

Farooq Sattar, a parliamentary leader of the Muttahida National Movement, best known by its Urdu language abbreviation, the M.Q.M., said his party, which is a partner of the governing coalition, was voting for General Musharraf for his stance on terrorism and his macro-economic achievements.

People had to learn HTML code, or Hypertext Markup Language; abbreviations like F.T.P. (file transfer protocol); and strange uses of familiar words like "socket" (a method of communicating with network programs).

The English-language abbreviation, an incongruous sight in this most xenophobic of countries, now turns up in everything from wall posters to children's songs.

He said the reports "were not in line with the actual content," which belongs "solely to the KNKT," referring to the National Transportation Safety Committee by its local-language abbreviation.

"The Kurds will take their right to self-determination under any political regime, with President Assad or without him," said Haval Mahmud, a militiaman with the Democratic Union Party, known by its Kurdish-language abbreviation, P.Y.D., in Qamishli.

Australia must be world champions in the use of acronyms, so there is a whole new language of abbreviations to learn and different terminologies that can at first seem strange (everyone on a grant is a principal investigator, not just the person leading the project, and a PDF is a postdoc, not an electronic document).

Language family abbreviations: AA Austroasiatic, AN Austronesian, ST Sino-Tibetan.

Language family abbreviations: AA Austroasiatic, AN Austronesian, P.Drav.

Language family abbreviations: AN Austronesian, Hm-M Hmong-Mien, Sino-Tibetan-Austronesianesian (of Sagart 2008).

We spoke the same language of abbreviations and lingo once they knew I was a retired RN, but I'm sure they would have put it in regular English if asked.

You will get schooled on the labyrinthine bureaucracy of the State Department, its alphabet soup of acronyms, its secret language of abbreviations.