Anc


Also, A.N.C. African National Congress.
Army Nurse Corps.
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Contemporary Examples

When senior ANC leaders insisted he run for president, he agreed but said he would serve for just one term.
Nelson Mandela’s Revelatory Diaries James Zug October 15, 2010

Madikizela-Mandela, who is a prominent ANC MP, has denied the accusations.
Winnie on Nelson Mandela’s Final Moments The Telegraph December 12, 2013

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 5, 2013

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 5, 2013

Since the ANC took power in the 1990s, its anti-Zionism has endured.
The Israel Debate In South Africa Peter Beinart January 28, 2013

Hiding in the back seat of my car, in the middle of that mayhem, was an ANC activist.
Tribeca’s Harrowing Film About War Photographers Marlow Stern April 21, 2011

Historical Examples

Cf. the parallel passage in the Senchus mòr astronomical tract, ANC.
The Poem-Book of the Gael Various

If the talent be estimated therefore, as in Mr. Hussey’s Essay on ANC.
The First Four Books of Xenophon’s Anabasis Xenophon

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

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

abbreviation
African National Congress
African National Congress
Army Nurse Corps
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