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ROC
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Appendix:Variations of "roc"
Translingual
Etymology
From mul en ROC Russia Olympic Committee.
Proper noun
mul proper noun
The national identifier for Russians in international sports recognized by the International Olympic Committee IOC, while Russia is under ban by the ruling of the Court of Arbitration for Sport supporting the ban enacted by the World Anti-Doping Agency WADA.
mul codes for Russia when it is not banned RUS
mul codes for Russians while Russia is banned at the Olympics OAR
mul codes for Russians while Russia is banned RPC RAF RHF
English
Proper noun
en Republic of China, all senses en Republic of China all senses.
en China<id:Q29520>
en Q865 Taiwan ROC.
en PRC<id:Q148><qq:People's Republic of China>
en https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1983-03-13_24_10/ March 13, 1983 ROC progress praised by McGovern Free China Weekly XXIV 10 Taipei 0016-0318 1786626 3 https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1983-03-13_24_10/page/n2/ Former U.S. Senator George McGovern said that during his one-week visit to the ROC he met many friendly, optimistic and energetic people, and called the Republic of China an "energetic" country.He said he hopes his visit will help to promote understanding between the ROC and liberals in the United States.
en 1994 Wu Hsin-hsing Hsin-hsing Wu Bridging the Strait: Taiwan, China, and the Prospects for Reunification https://archive.org/details/bridgingstraitta0000wuhs/ w:Oxford University Press 0-19-585765-8 93-42311 925253882 1430878M vii https://archive.org/details/bridgingstraitta0000wuhs/page/n10/ This book suggests that the gradual increase of transactions and communications between the two Chinas since 1987 should contribute to the ‘normalization’ of relations between the two Chinas. Nevertheless, these transactions and communications are not expected to lead to the political reunification of the two Chinas in the foreseeable future due to four main obstacles: the PRC’s intention to localize and isolate the ROC internationally; the PRC’s refusal to exclude the use of military force against the ROC; the difference between the two Chinas’ living standards and political philosophies; and the Taiwan Independence Movement.
en 1996 May w:Lee Teng-hui Political Reforms Peace Through Democratic Reforms Taipei Wen Ying Tang Press Inc. 957-8811-02-0 610397753 11 https://archive.org/details/peacethroughdemo0000teng/page/11/ Prevented by internal and external influences, this ideal of placing the sovereignty in the hands of the people was not carried out immediately after the establishment of the Republic of China. With the changes of time, particularly with the relocation of the ROC government to Taiwan, we have gradually carried it out at last, but only after having licked our wounds and built our strength for forty years.
en
en Q13426199 A former sovereign state of China, 1912–1949; dissolved by the declaration of the People's Republic.
en Rest of Canada en Canada politics The "Rest of Canada", i.e. Canada excluding the province of Quebec.
en 2002 L. Yves Fortier http://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/ohlj/vol40/iss3/8/ A Mature Exercise of Sovereignty Osgoode Hall Law Journal 40 3-4 426 [T]he old and tired purveyors of separatism in Québec continue to harp on what they contend Québec is not—essentially, “not the ROC”—in order to peddle their snake oil.
en March 7 2014 w:Jeffrey Simpson The rest of Canada will have choices to make http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/the-roc-will-have-choices-to-make/article17357856/ Globe and Mail 7 April 2014 Canada If Quebeckers believe that voting PQ means putting a knife to Canada’s throat, they should think again. The ROC is fed up with these threats. https://web.archive.org/web/20171205194816/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/the-roc-will-have-choices-to-make/article17357856/ 5 December 2017
en Q971 en Republic of the Congo Republic of (the) Congo Congo-Brazzaville.
en DRC<id:Q974><qq:Congo-Kinshasa>
en sports en Russia(n) Olympic Committee.
en IOC NOC OC
en motorsport en Race of Champions.
en IROC
en Q60995 en Russian Orthodox Church.
en ROCOR<id:Q912932> ROCA<id:Q912932>
en Q7374637 en UK military historical The en Royal Observer Corps, a former United Kingdom defence organization (1925 to 1992).
Descendants
mul ROC
Translations
Russian Olympic Committee, an organization
French: fr COR
Polish: pl RKO n
Russian: ru ОКР
Russian Orthodox Church
Polish: pl RKP n
Russian: ru РПЦ
Noun
en mathematics of a series en region of convergence.
en statistics radio en receiver operating characteristic.
Anagrams
en cor CoR orc Orc cro cor- ORC Cor. OCR CRO cor. COR cor
en initialisms
en Organizations Eastern Orthodoxy Canada China Russia Taiwan