Sentences with phrase «informal name»

I prefer the formal version of my name as well, but I find that here in the American South, total strangers tend to use informal names more than formal ones.

The features on Pluto have been given informal names which the International Astronomical Union (IAU) will hopefully confirm.

I am reminded of the Munich massacre (informal name) for events that occurred during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Bavaria in southern West Germany, when members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken hostage and eventually killed by the Palestinian group Black September.

The Precambrian is an informal name for the eons of the geologic timescale that came before the current Phanerozoic eon.

I used to kid around with a woman, that I was infatuated with, and, I use her informal name.

The Cornell Big Red is the informal name of the sports teams, and other competitive teams, at Cornell University.

That's the informal name for the new high - speed handling circuit at General Motors» Milford Proving Ground, a short way out of Detroit.

This can be referred to as an 80 - 10 or an 80-10-10 (with one of the 10s representing the down payment), but I like the informal name of «piggyback» mortgage.

That was the informal name for «Levitated Mass,» the 340 - ton boulder that the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) spent 10 days and more than $ 10 million carting from a Riverside quarry to the heart of Los Angeles, for a work of sculpture produced by land artist Michael Heizer.

In a recent report by the Global Carbon Project published during COP 23 — the informal name for the 23rd Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change — the authors predicted a 3 percent increase of coal consumption in China, leading to a 3.5 percent increase in China's carbon emissions, a key contributor to a 2 percent increase of global emissions in 2017.

#COP23 includes the informal name for the 23rd Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).