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designate as in:  designated driver

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  • The Red Cross designated this building as a shelter.
  • The legislation designates $10 million in funding for...
    designates = assigns (for a particular purpose)
  • The area was designated as a wildlife refuge.
    designated = assigned (for a particular purpose)
  • It's not safe to swim outside of the designated area.
  • Wednesday and Saturday were the designated meeting days, from three in the afternoon until five.   (source)
    designated = assigned or chosen
  • The United Nations announced they were designating 10 November, one month and a day after the shooting, Malala Day.   (source)
    designating = assigning to (a name)
  • Baba killed the engine and let the bus roll silently into our designated spot.   (source)
    designated = assigned
  • There are whole teams specially designated to strip the jets, sort parts, and get them ready for sale.   (source)
  • Life rafts were stocked with radios and better provisions, boats were set out along the paths flown by military planes, and searches were handled by designated rescue squadrons equipped with float planes.   (source)
    designated = assigned (for a particular purpose)
  • Yay, Designated Driver!   (source)
    designated = assigned
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  • The only thing that sticks in my head is that it has a clock, and we must be back inside 13 by the designated hour or our hunting privileges will be revoked.   (source)
  • When you deplane, you will form four ranks in the area designated by Lieutenant Wilson.   (source)
    designated = assigned for that purpose
  • The following evening I arrived at the designated spot early.   (source)
    designated = assigned (chosen for a particular purpose)
  • He's the designated team leader.   (source)
    designated = assigned
  • Of course, I agreed, telling myself that if by some chance Jenny should became intoxicated (not that I knew ahead of time that there would be alcohol there), I'd be the designated driver to get us home safely.   (source)
  • The Count of Monte Cristo entered the adjoining room, which Baptistin had designated as the drawing-room, and found there a young man, of graceful demeanor and elegant appearance, who had arrived in a cab about half an hour previously.   (source)
  • They arrived at the designated shop window.   (source)
    designated = assigned or chosen
  • Watanabe was assigned to Omori and designated the "disciplinary officer."   (source)
    designated = assigned
  • A name designated Not-to-Be-Spoken indicated the highest degree of disgrace.   (source)
    designated = assigned or chosen
  • Next, the rebels ensnaring me in the metal claw that lifted me from the arena, designating me to be their Mockingjay, and then having to recover from the shock that I might not want the wings.   (source)
    designating = assigning
  • "I go in here, Jonas," Fiona told him when they reached the front door of the House of the Old after parking their bicycles in the designated area.   (source)
    designated = assigned
  • When the designated firefighters assembled under the freezing downpour, the Bird punched several of them in the face, ran through barracks shouting and punching other men, then ordered every man in camp to line up outside.   (source)
  • At 15:00, the designated hour, we stand tense and silent in the back of a room full of screens and computers and watch Beetee and his team try to dominate the airwaves.   (source)
  • "For example," she said, smiling, "we did not consider for an instant designating Asher an Instructor of Threes." ... The Instructors of Threes were in charge of the acquisition of correct language.   (source)
    designating = assigning
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designate as in:  designated by a star on the map

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  • The rank of sergeant is designated by three chevrons (inverted Vs) on the shoulder.   
    designated = indicated (shown in a particular way)
  • The military had officially declared Louie, and all the other crewmen, dead. ... The notice had been generated as a bureaucratic matter of course, a designation made for all missing servicemen after thirteen months had passed.   (source)
    designation = official status
  • The little girl nodded and looked down at herself, at the jacket with its row of large buttons that designated her as a Seven.   (source)
    designated = indicated
  • It is to be a kitchen election: since no one can read, every candidate is designated by a symbol.   (source)
    designated = signified (indicated in a particular way)
  • There were twelve monkey rooms in the monkey house, and they were designated by the letters A through L. Two of the monkeys that arrived on October 4 were dead in their crates.   (source)
  • In the future, the defendant should be designated by the name under which the indictment was drawn.   (source)
    designated = referred to
  • "Usually when the UnDead sleep at home," as he spoke he made a comprehensive sweep of his arm to designate what to a vampire was 'home', "their face show what they are, but this so sweet that was when she not UnDead she go back to the nothings of the common dead."   (source)
    designate = indicate (show or point to)
  • They lived nameless, designated only by numbers, and converted, after a manner, into ciphers themselves, with downcast eyes, with lowered voices, with shorn heads, beneath the cudgel and in disgrace.   (source)
    designated = referred to
  • Among the fishermen, he is indiscriminately designated by all the following titles: The Whale; the Greenland Whale; the Black Whale; the Great Whale; the True Whale; the Right Whale.   (source)
  • This horrible place contained fifty cells; their inhabitants were designated by the numbers of their cell, and the unhappy young man was no longer called Edmond Dantes—he was now number 34.   (source)
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  • The French created a word on purpose to designate the servants of the aristocracy—they called them lackeys.   (source)
    designate = label
  • On December 24, 1948, as the occupation began to wind down, General MacArthur declared a "Christmas amnesty" for the last seventeen men awaiting trial for Class A war crimes, the designation for those who had guided the war.   (source)
    designation = official term (signifying something)
  • Number One — her name was Madeline — returned, finally, amidst applause, to her seat, wearing the new badge that designated her Fish Hatchery Attendant.   (source)
    designated = indicated
  • What was called the People in the most democratic republics of antiquity, was very unlike what we designate by that term.   (source)
    designate = indicate
  • One of his distant relatives, Madame la Comtesse de Lo, rarely allowed an opportunity to escape of enumerating, in his presence, what she designated as "the expectations" of her three sons.   (source)
    designated = called
  • Few new words are coined, because few new things are made; and even if new things were made, they would be designated by known words, whose meaning has been determined by tradition.   (source)
    designated = indicated
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  • Its designation was S14A316, but I'd renamed it Falco, after the Austrian rap star.†   (source)
  • Could it be that Myra is my designated guardian angel?†   (source)
  • After Red Coast was designated for conversion to civilian use, the military basically abandoned it.†   (source)
  • Boris took up the kopek and, showing due consideration for the seriousness of his task, he carefully arranged himself so that he could hold the designated object precisely at the top of the balustrade.†   (source)
  • On designated weekdays and weekends, we visited our mother at the CAT house.†   (source)
  • Those designated to work are brought in trains to Birkenau, which saves Lale and Leon a round-trip walk of five miles.†   (source)
  • "The professional designation has also been removed from the nameplate of the lawyer around the corner," Fisch continued.†   (source)
  • They would huddle on the corners, and when they saw a cop—or anyone who looked like a cop—they would yell "Hey, Tina," or "Hey, Susan," or whatever name the crew had designated for the week.†   (source)
  • He designated his new wife as the person to whom the flag should be presented.†   (source)
  • Most of them didn't have the additional designations like Aris and Minho, just the property line.†   (source)
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  • Did you know there's a country with officially designated 'enchanted places'?†   (source)
  • Until then, the notion that anything had a designated, much less a special purpose would have been cuckoo to me.†   (source)
  • Last one to reach the designated spot would be sent back to whatever gutter they came from.†   (source)
  • Despite the contorted foolishness of Mickey's outstretched arms designating the hour, it was the only watch Langdon had ever worn.†   (source)
  • Now, if basketball had a designated foul-shot shooter, maybe I'd consider.†   (source)
  • Annemarie grinned and walked her Scarlett toward the chair that Ellen had designated as Tivoli.†   (source)
  • Dumbo is training to be the squad medic, so he has to dissect designated corpses, usually Teds, to learn about human anatomy.†   (source)
  • It's the one designated for our Head Peacekeeper.†   (source)
  • You are, and will remain, as you have been designated.†   (source)
  • Corporal Gadafi would hold his fist up, and when he brought it down, we fell into the bushes and crawled quickly, without producing much sound, until we reached a designated tree.†   (source)
  • Why aren't you designated driver?†   (source)
  • Which meant, in the family tradition, that she was the one designated to care for her mother until the end of her days.†   (source)
  • Ropes went up inside the streetcars, designating seating for gentiles—non-Jewish Poles—in the front of the cars and for Jews in the rear.†   (source)
  • Migrants will often designate one person to look out for trouble while the others rest.†   (source)
  • After Independence, when the British left, his designation was changed from Imperial Entomologist to Joint Director, Entomology.†   (source)
  • On the designated evening, Robert showed up at the club with his parents, who proudly introduced their son as J. Robert Oppenheimer.†   (source)
  • He had the warlocks do their thing into lithium batteries, and then he set up a network of receiver dishes around the designated area.†   (source)
  • It told that Iwamura Electric's designation had been changed by the Allied Occupation authorities from ...I don't remember—a Class Something to a Class Something-Else.†   (source)
  • At the designated hour she was seated on a pin that her father had decorated, hoisted five feet off the ground, carried out to meet the groom.†   (source)
  • The nurse shooed Emmett and his brothers out of the ward to the room designated for colored blood collection, where they'd donate eight pints of blood.†   (source)
  • The girls had similar designations.†   (source)
  • Cunmao and Cunfar were the designated chefs, and Cunsang was the kitchen hand.†   (source)
  • The NFL had a new designation: the "franchise player?'†   (source)
  • We would sail to a designated spot and drift in the night, waiting.†   (source)
  • She had a name beyond her designation—one I never used, though I knew it.†   (source)
  • He took them to their designated space in one of the new pavilions, unoccupied and basic, with a cot, and some fabric shelving hanging from one of the cables, and he left them there to settle in, left the three of them staring and motionless.†   (source)
  • Oblique winds from left to right, or right to left, are designated as half value winds.†   (source)
  • Parts of eastern and southern Afghanistan have been officially designated unsafe due to increasingly daring Taliban attacks.†   (source)
  • Spontaneously the throng began to sing "My Country 'Tis of Thee," which many thought of as the national anthem although no song had yet received that designation.†   (source)
  • Each dot or circle designated the position of a Soviet submarine.†   (source)
  • Many of the boys on the Fire were so-called TAG children—a school system designation that meant "talented and gifted."†   (source)
  • Designated Gawkers.†   (source)
  • The Principal, or in his stead the Assistant Principal, or in his stead a designated member of the faculty, will say, "Good morning to all students, faculty, and staff.†   (source)
  • And so I, with about 150 other students, went to the designated auditorium for the repeat exam.†   (source)
  • Lunatics are similar to designated hitters.†   (source)
  • The war, which until then had been only a word to designate a vague and remote circumstance, became a concrete and dramatic reality.†   (source)
  • It's like he or she becomes the designated pray-er, the expert.†   (source)
  • During the past year she had had only one regular sex partner—hardly promiscuous, as her casebook entries during her late teens had designated her.†   (source)
  • I pulled my car into the space designated and told the boys to do their best job.†   (source)
  • We wear seven different colors, to designate our jobs.†   (source)
  • Inside their designated room, the friends were greeted by a professor and a red-headed guy who was handing out information on the various services available to them, emergency numbers, and maps of campus.†   (source)
  • For its trouble, the designated team was to be paid $2,200 from each of the other expeditions on the mountain.†   (source)
  • I am the Duke's only ....companion, the mother of his heir-designate.†   (source)
  • This applies, in particular, to the designation "planets."†   (source)
  • Roran was the first to arrive at the designated hill.†   (source)
  • "Our very own designated driver," she says.†   (source)
  • Bastia was the last man so designated.†   (source)
  • The fence said Dad had run him out, but I think the real reason was he had done his job for the steel company as the designated hatchet man.†   (source)
  • Then turned to the designated page.†   (source)
  • "Such carcasses," IBP's top food safety executive advised, "are to be designated for outside (non-IBP) carcass sale."†   (source)
  • Designated.†   (source)
  • Designated prisoners from F and G would pick up the matchboxes on their walks, and we retrieved messages in the same fashion.†   (source)
  • Ian, Brandt, and I are the duly designated appointees of the result.†   (source)
  • You know, designated smoking areas for kids who aren't supposed to smoke.†   (source)
  • Clarke slipped through the flap of the designated infirmary tent and stepped into the clearing.†   (source)
  • Last night I told you about the unfortunate demise of Mr. Seth Hubbard, but what I didn't tell you was that before he died he did a quickie will, mailed it to my office, and designated me as the lawyer for his estate.†   (source)
  • I was named after a father who is no longer alive, leaving me the responsibility of being the designated man of the house.†   (source)
  • So long as they designate the enemy by that term and not us, it doesn't matter.†   (source)
  • The modern designation "family practitioner" doesn't quite cover all the things he was.†   (source)
  • Oswald's case has been designated as an "internal security" investigation, based on the belief that his defection might make him a threat to national security.†   (source)
  • I should wait for the designated talk-about-turning-into-horseflies time.†   (source)
  • J. T. paid the board of directors nearly 20 percent of his revenues for the right to sell crack in a designated twelve-square-block area.†   (source)
  • After the PTSA president finishes, everyone wanders from the auditorium to designated homerooms.†   (source)
  • From here on, anything pertaining to the newly designated Special Warfare Operator First Class (SEAL) Adam Brown would be stamped TOP SECRET.†   (source)
  • That is why the word compassion generally inspires suspicion; it designates what is considered an inferior, second-rate sentiment that has little to do with love.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, the town driver was widely held to be the designated Camp snitch.†   (source)
  • There was a pair of silver-backed brushes his mother had given him when he was sixteen, engraved with his initials, the abbreviated degree designation of a doctor.†   (source)
  • One might suppose that Astaroth had just secretly designated you to be his officiate for Walpurgisnacht.†   (source)
  • Though the use of phones was allowed only in designated areas, Sophia saw then, was no one else around an I reached over, frowning when she saw the text and the sender.†   (source)
  • Moscow's Central Prison, Matrosskaya Tishina, was the city's largest jail, designated a sizo, a detention center.†   (source)
  • And they would have seen the designation the mapmakers had given Suribachi: "HOT ROCKS."†   (source)
  • The previous year, the corps designated him Officer of the Year, the unit's highest honor.†   (source)
  • Instead, Shay's designated witnesses would be me, Maggie, and Maggie's boss.†   (source)
  • Finally they designated several "pro" words for the operation.†   (source)
  • "Not yet," said Tummeler, "as a number of designates such as y'rselves are only just arrived, and the Council at Paralon asked ol' Tummeler to escort any last-minute princely sorts and emissaries as may be expectin' to attend."†   (source)
  • In various parts of the city, it was explained, there were designated places with small boxes in which a baby could be "deposited."†   (source)
  • A room upstairs was designated for women's gathering and for unmarried girls to sleep.†   (source)
  • Of course Ash would be the designated bomb dropper.†   (source)
  • The rue Sarrasin was so ancient that in another city it might have been designated as a landmark thoroughfare, a wide brick alley connecting streets built centuries later.†   (source)
  • And you hurried with him full of doubt to the cabin designated by the stranger, where he met that seemingly demented black man ....You remember that old one, laughed at by the children in the town's square, old, comic-faced, crafty, cotton-headed.†   (source)
  • Area WF was the designation for the cordoned-off radius around Piedmont, Arizona.†   (source)
  • Since Seabiscuit refused toexert himself in workouts, it would have made little sense to pair him with the brilliantly fast Granville, especially as Granville already had a designated workmate who traveled with him.†   (source)
  • Those who'd originally come from the colored forest took designation according to which forests they lived in, thus Ciphus of Southern.†   (source)
  • Marc, wearing an official cap to designate Sharpless, Enters and plays the character.†   (source)
  • Means the area designated at a mining operation for miners to eat and take a break.†   (source)
  • But Prof lost interest in a sure thing and merely placed bets as Mike designated.†   (source)
  • The broomhandle, devoid of its bristles, served as their bat, and certain clumps of weeds were designated as bases.†   (source)
  • "It is done, then?" the burly man asked when Kessell entered the dark alley designated as the meeting place.†   (source)
  • One item on the legislative agenda that day was a bill to designate tortilla chips and salsa as the Official State Snack of Texas.†   (source)
  • She says her oldest daughter will likely carry on the Designated Celebrator tradition in the family.†   (source)
  • The house, the one officially designated to the Inquisitor and his or her family, was grand in its scope, with high ceilings and heavy, expensive-looking furniture.†   (source)
  • While it was true that she had grown accustomed to the privileges that came with marrying into the Puente family, Lourdes never accepted the life designated for its women.†   (source)
  • Apollo has designated three asteroids so far.†   (source)
  • I didn't want her officially listed as a runaway, as I was afraid the designation would remain indefinitely on her personal records, and I knew I could count on Officer Como to keep a watch on the place and its frequent visitors—mostly men in their twenties and thirties, many, according to her, known troublemakers and felons—and be publicly discreet about Sunny's habitation.†   (source)
  • She could remember her own first sight of the house, back when she was a freckle-faced middle-schooler from Hampden and snooty Merrick Whitshank was her designated Big Sister.†   (source)
  • Unlike the shoe trees, it's a designated tourist attraction.†   (source)
  • One of the agents at the concierge stand, a veteran of the Iraq surge, was the designated shooter.†   (source)
  • The stamp, designated 163L1, was reproduced, under the title "Tristero Rapid Post, San Francisco, California," and should have been inserted between Local listings 139 (the Third Avenue Post Office, of New York) and 140 (Union Post, also of New York), Oedipa, off on a kind of intuitive high, went immediately to the endpaper in back and found the sticker of Zapf's Used Books.†   (source)
  • Did she not know the seriousness of her act, did she not know that meat of any kind but especially of this quality was designated for the Reich?†   (source)
  • It was Mahesh's idea to give Ildephonse a label for his jacket with his name and the designation—in English, for the extra style—Manager.†   (source)
  • I designate Miss Florence Wechek her deputy.†   (source)
  • What turned his stomach was people who took one sip of wine and glanced expertly at the corner of the room and passed judgment with the greatest solemnity, as if the head of the winemaker hung on their sentence—"nutty," or "tart," or "bland," or "smooth," or some other perfectly obvious designation of a perfectly obvious, wholly unimportant sensation.†   (source)
  • I designated her as grand interpreter with illimitable powers of life and death over all.†   (source)
  • It was at once a reminder of the old days, and of the old way of designating a company or battalion area.†   (source)
  • He asked another reader what this meant and was told that the expression "house with sculptures" was as familiar in Yuriatin as in Moscow the designation of a street by the name of its parish church, or the phrase "the Five Corners" in Petersburg.†   (source)
  • Not even then, having pushed past a wilderness of knees and feet to reach his designated seat, did he dare to breathe; nor, out of a last, sick hope for forgiveness, did he look at the screen.†   (source)
  • There was nothing to change his mind about the Spaniard-to make him think that this sedate man, installed on the lighted stage with his foot on a rest the way he liked to present himself, hadn't a secret practice of going out to a dark and shady place on his own, and wouldn't seek out as a further preoccupation in his life some stranger's disgrace or necessity, some marked, designated house.†   (source)
  • Areas designated ST and HT were apparently on a level that Anderson called Terrace Level.†   (source)
  • Also I remembered the designation beside their name.†   (source)
  • We still get to keep it since officially it's the designated dwelling of my mother and sister.†   (source)
  • Still, we had a tremendous time, raising over $13,000 for the designated charities.†   (source)
  • ELF TRANSMISSION "G" DESIGNATES FLASH OPS DIRECTIVE READY FOR YOU.†   (source)
  • They designated me as violent and uncontrollable; they didn't know "what to do with me.†   (source)
  • Some of the buses are designated just for children who have been traveling alone through Chiapas.†   (source)
  • They designated me the first to get jumped.†   (source)
  • Gullberg had never used the designation "Säpo" for Säkerhetspolisen, the Security Police.†   (source)
  • Was one of the designated "hot bods" on campus.†   (source)
  • I prefer to reserve that designation for presidents, terrorists, and Madison.†   (source)
  • But at least Edward was allowed—during my designated visiting hours—inside the house again.†   (source)
  • All the stuff that's stashed in the storage rooms and laundry rooms that are designated shelters.†   (source)
  • He picked up the satellite designated Scoop VII and carried it outside to the van.†   (source)
  • So far I've gotten away with being designated as Drew's researcher.†   (source)
  • "The designated ugly fat friend," I sighed.†   (source)
  • Moving over to the south side of the model, Jay pointed at the guesthouse, designated Cl.†   (source)
  • I'm talking with Specialist Benjamin Putman, who is the company's designated maple tapping expert.†   (source)
  • He was on the road within five minutes, his destination the designated DHS drop site.†   (source)
  • I am hereby designating 6178, which, yeah, seems to be the best choice, as Connie.†   (source)
  • I have been legally designated to keep order when normal authority breaks down.†   (source)
  • He could appreciate why the whole state had been designated a contaminated area.†   (source)
  • Lawrence wasn't in the greatest of moods, either, probably because he'd gone from being a food distributor in a locked-down facility to serving as designated driver through a city of Cranks.†   (source)
  • Outside on the balcony the rain clattered in pots and pans, and periodically Saeed or Nadia would get up and open the window and carry two of these to the bathroom and empty them into the stoppered tub, which the council had designated part of the house's emergency water supply, now that the taps had run dry.†   (source)
  • Although it is a somewhat arbitrary designation, mountaineers have always attached special prestige to ascents of 8,000-meter peaks.†   (source)
  • Sundays were designated as unstructured family time: We couldn't take Mom off-site, but we were able to eat and watch TV and talk as normal.†   (source)
  • At exactly one minute to noon, one of the Supply Droids, designation SD-03, powered itself on and disengaged from its charging dock.†   (source)
  • There had never been as many surprises and as much dashing about as in those days, but the new pitch lamps were lighted on the designated day and hour.†   (source)
  • WATERCOUNTERS: metal rings of different size, each designating a specific amount of water payable out of Fremen stores.†   (source)
  • NFL teams saw, instantly, that a left tackle even after he'd been designated a franchise player was cheaper than a left tackle purchased on the open market.†   (source)
  • The vastness of the night beyond the house, the dark trees, the welcoming shadows, the cool new-mown grass—all this had been reserved, he had designated it as belonging exclusively to himself and Cecilia.†   (source)
  • With a number-one rating, Owen was sure, he would be assigned a "combat arms designator"—Infantry, Armor, or Artillery.†   (source)
  • The YMCA still had not delivered soccer goals, so Luma designated the two chain-link baseball backstops on the field as goals instead.†   (source)
  • In December, my mother and I were transferred from Ghetto B, the section where we had been living, to Ghetto A, the area now designated for workers.†   (source)
  • BY TEN O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING on Monday, October 9, 1893, the day Frank Millet had designated as Chicago Day, ticket-takers at the fair's Sixty-fourth Street gate made an informal count of the morning's sales thus far and found that this one gate had recorded 60,000 paid admissions.†   (source)
  • You're my designated driver!†   (source)
  • The newest version is so improved, in fact, that it rates a different designation: the Navy calls it an Mk-43 Mod 0.†   (source)
  • Nina, who had taken her first steps into the modern world and found it just as worthy of her unblinking intelligence as the study of princesses, was moving with her father to a large apartment in one of the new buildings designated for the use of Party officials.†   (source)
  • Often an entire family is crazy, but since an entire family can't go into the hospital, one person is designated as crazy and goes inside.†   (source)
  • Just three weeks after Henrietta's name was first published, Richard Nixon signed the National Cancer Act into law and launched the War on Cancer, designating $1.5 billion for cancer research over the next three years.†   (source)
  • "Well, sir," the voice replied, "I've got a handwritten notation here that designates SBB Thirteen as 'private.'†   (source)
  • I unpacked the lightweight laser designator (AN/PED-1 LLDR), which wasn't very lightweight, while DJ covered our perimeter.†   (source)
  • She discovered that the designated frequencies for transmissions 304, 318, and 325 were lower than microwave range and could not result in any heating effect in the target.†   (source)
  • I can't even look at Peeta—my designated future husband—although I know none of this is his fault.†   (source)
  • The term "five tool" is used to identify position players (as opposed to pitchers or designated hitters) who can: (1) hit for average, (2) hit for power, (3) have excellent base-running skills and speed, (4) have good throwing ability, and (5) are good defensive players.†   (source)
  • Anticipating this, the company had set aside Sector One as the simulation's designated business zone and began to sell and rent millions of blocks of surreal estate there.†   (source)
  • The Designated Driver cometh!†   (source)
  • UNESCO designated 2005 the World Year of Physics, and that organization gradually developed out of the numerous academic conferences and exchanges that occurred among world physicists that year.†   (source)
  • SALUSA SECUNDUS: third planet of Gamma Waiping; designated Imperial Prison Planet after removal of the Royal Court to Kaitain.†   (source)
  • I told Dan that I was afraid I might be responsible for sabotaging Owen's desire for a "combat arms designator"; I confessed that I'd told Colonel Eiger that Owen's "emotional stability" was questionable, and that I'd agreed with the colonel that Owen was not suitable for a combat branch.†   (source)
  • From the summit, a bump in the ridge blocks one's view of the rest of the route, and by 2:00the designated turnaround time-there was still no sign of Fischer or any other clients.†   (source)
  • That is a Lithuanian name, although we believe his internal passport designates his nationality as Great Russian.†   (source)
  • The black ball was a sight with a platform that contained a TeleVision System, a Thermal Imaging System, and a Laser Range Finder/Designator to provide audio and video of the ground to General Garrison at the Joint Operations Center.†   (source)
  • A chief yeoman looked the designation up in a catalog and did not like what he found—Pave Pat Blue 76.†   (source)
  • DESIGNATED DRIVER!†   (source)
  • He never declared which of these times we were to abide by, however-which was curious, considering how much he'd talked about the importance of designating a hard deadline and sticking to it no matter what.†   (source)
  • Significantly, this name, when referred to in a certain tone or written with capital letters, designates the earth deity of Fremen hearth superstitions.†   (source)
  • I happened to have scored in the end zone designated as the LSU student seating area, and so I took the liberty of celebrating with my teammates right there, all of us jumping around for just a while for the benefit of our mockers.†   (source)
  • Each floor had a designated common room, a butt room, so-called, for the smokers; but smoking in the dorm rooms was forbidden—as was sex in any form, alcohol in any form, and drugs that had not been prescribed by the school physician.†   (source)
  • Listening to our radio at the designated time, we received a shoot window—the time frame for taking out the target: "The man in the red hat will appear at oh two hundred on November H. Take him out."†   (source)
  • Beauty was not a criterion; the winner was the person who could raise more money in a designated period of time.†   (source)
  • I look up and see Plutarch Heavensbee in the magnificent purple robe with the fur-trimmed collar that designates him as Head Gamemaker.†   (source)
  • The air force alone will have over five hundred aircraft designated for this operation, and another three or four hundred from the navy.†   (source)
  • But still, Mr. Madison implemented Plan B. I had designated 1 p. m., following the lunch period, for everyone to meet on the lawn.†   (source)
  • Designated Peak XV by surveyors in the field who'd first measured the angle of its rise with a twenty-four-inch theodolite three years earlier, the mountain in question jutted from the spine of the Himalaya in the forbidden kingdom of Nepal.†   (source)
  • As the air operations specialist responsible for all SEAL helo fast-rope operations his consistent hard work was instrumental in maintaining the assault team's capability to conduct rapid and efficient insertions onto designated targets.†   (source)
  • And since class rank in ROTC is composed of excellence in Academics, in Leadership, and in Physical Fitness, Owen Meany—just that simply—failed to get a number-one ranking; his choice of a "combat arms designator" was, therefore, not assured.†   (source)
  • You are so designated!†   (source)
  • Residents of federally-subsidized housing projects — once designated as havens of crime, drugs and gang warfare — covered up the bland pastel walls with bold-colored, message-laden works of art.†   (source)
  • Backing farther off, he could still fire sabot rounds from fifty miles, and they could be directed to the target by a laser designator aboard the battlewagon's helicopter.†   (source)
  • In neither document is the faculty empowered with any authority over the school's chosen headmaster, who is designated as the principal, meaning the principal faculty member; in neither the charter nor the constitution are the decision-making powers of the headmaster or principal inhibited in any way.†   (source)
  • Ramiro had been on a rapidly declining roller coaster ride into the world of street-gang America, not unexpected for this neighborhood, once designated as one of the 10 poorest in the country and also known as one of the most gang-infested.†   (source)
  • At twenty miles he had the choice of using full-sized or subcaliber rounds, the latter guided to their targets by a laser designator installed atop the main director tower.†   (source)
  • This was partially a slur against his half-Lithuanian blood—though since he had been born in Leningrad of a Great Russian, his internal passport designated him as that—but mainly recognition that officers came to him half-trained and left him ready for advancement and eventual command.†   (source)
  • We are the boys who go to a particular place, at H-hour, occupy a designated terrain, stand on it, dig the enemy out of their holes, force them then and there to surrender or die.†   (source)
  • More recently, Burundi had been designated one of the world's three worst countries in which to do business.†   (source)
  • I have ordered the complete remodel of the East Wing of the third floor, an area of some six thousand square feet, now designated "Adam's Wing.†   (source)
  • We need, like, a designated medic to carry the potion—somebody who can react quickly and heal whoever gets killed.†   (source)
  • One of the eggs would go to the dwarves, the other to the Urgals, and hopefully the dragons within would see fit to choose Riders from their designated race.†   (source)
  • Eugene smiled at this designation.†   (source)
  • Throughout the days, Tweedy hurried about with his clipboard, taking note of progress and barking orders to Jack, the scrawny refugee who the hare had designated as a messenger.†   (source)
  • It was reported that the police had designated a third site to be excavated as well, and that this might not be the last of it.†   (source)
  • Open spaces have been military staging areas during the war, with the camp followers and soldiers' businesses such a designation implies.†   (source)
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