Shorthand, Typewriting and Reproduction

Darfur is shorthand for the latest example of a recurring international problem, one that gained headlines a decade ago in Rwanda.

To me, it s just shorthand for what we re talking about that anything that creates a sense of connection and community and love is really healing.

And this is a song medley I put together Did you ever notice that four in the morning has become some sort of meme or shorthand?

The quote is from the fabled Potter Stewart And let me just read it, the important details here Shorthand description, 'hardcore pornography' and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly defining it.

Over five weeks I spent volunteering at Katsikas, I was told of lives left behind in cities that have become shorthand for despicable atrocities and brutal violence Raqqa, Mosul, Sinjar, Palmyra, Aleppo.

When atheists like Stephen Hawking and Albert Einstein use the word God, they use it of course as a metaphorical shorthand for that deep, mysterious part of physics which we don't yet understand.

This view of nuclear weapons as a shorthand for national greatness is reinforced by the architecture of the non proliferation regime, which firmly divides states into two camps nuclear haves and have nots.

The entire discussion in England was over by 1696, but it was revisited by Jonathan Swift, who saw in the opposing camps of Ancients and Moderns a shorthand of two general orientations or ways of life.

Darfur is shorthand for the latest example of a recurring international problem, one that gained headlines a decade ago in Rwanda. What should the world do when a large number of people are the victims of violence originating from within their own country?

Now, just to be clear, in this talk I'm using the name Earth Witness as part of the scenario, simply as a shorthand, for what this imaginary project could aspire to, not to piggyback on the wonderful work of the Witness organization.

I know many in the room probably know exactly who he is, but to give the shorthand version for any who have not heard him speak, Dr. Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize a few years ago for his work pioneering modern microfinance.