| I must plead guilty to the charge of abbreviating the official breath of more than one of these venerable servants of the republic. |
| This approval may involve the netting, abbreviating, rewording, recoding or deletion of codes. |
| But even more substantial savings come from abbreviating phrases. |
| I remember that each year at college offered new opportunities to abuse the language — by abbreviating words whenever possible, by overusing acronyms for campus locations and proper nouns. |
| I've got to agree with her about people abbreviating words when sending text messages. |
| The efficiency of the process should be improved by abbreviating the internal procedure, as was rightly included in the draft European Parliament resolution. |
