ANC

Also A.N.C. African National Congress.

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anc.

ancient.

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Example sentences from the Web for anc

Madikizela-Mandela, who is a prominent ANC MP, has denied the accusations.
Winnie on Nelson Mandela’s Final Moments|The Telegraph|December 13, 2013|DAILY BEAST
But does anyone think for a second that the ANC would have said no to American help had it been forthcoming?
Conservatives on the Wrong Side of History on Mandela, Most Other Things|Michael Tomasky|December 10, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Mandela as a leader in the ANC was among the many hundreds who were seized and jailed without trial.
Mandela, My Source: One Journalist’s Memory of Clandestine Meetings|Benjamin Pogrund|December 6, 2013|DAILY BEAST
But at home, where it mattered most, the ANC was a genuine, multiracial movement for democracy.
Don’t Sanitize Nelson Mandela: He’s Honored Now, But Was Hated Then|Peter Beinart|December 6, 2013|DAILY BEAST

For a young journalist in South Africa Nelson Mandela as a young ANC leader was a major source on the anti-apartheid struggle.
Mandela, My Source: One Journalist’s Memory of Clandestine Meetings|Benjamin Pogrund|December 6, 2013|DAILY BEAST
If the talent be estimated therefore, as in Mr. Hussey's Essay on Anc.
The First Four Books of Xenophon's Anabasis|Xenophon
Arrone—though the ancient name does not occur in literature—the stream which forms the outlet to the lake of Bracciano, anc.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 16, Slice 3|Various
Gulf of Astacus), penetrating between 40 and 50 m. into the interior as far as Ismid (anc.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1|Various
Cf. the parallel passage in the Senchus mòr astronomical tract, Anc.
The Poem-Book of the Gael|Various

British Dictionary definitions for anc

ANC

abbreviation for

African National Congress

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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