Example sentences for: designating

How can you use “designating” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In December 2000, pursuant to concerns of the FISA Court, the New York Field Office began designating certain agents as either intelligence or criminal agents.

  • The FISA Court's concern with FBI sloppiness in its FISA applications also began to take a toll: the court began designating itself as the gatekeeper for the sharing of intelligence information; the FBI was required to separately designate criminal and intelligence agents; and the court banned one supervisory FBI agent from appearing before it.

  • Vulgar , which really means no more than `unrefined,' is rarely encountered in modern dictionaries as a label because people have taken to designating four-letter words as vulgar, illustrating the semantic process known as pejoration `depreciation,' the opposite of melioration . Today we should probably consider labeling Great!

  • Jim Hodges asked the NAACP to drop the boycott on the condition that he push for a bill designating Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday as a state holiday.

  • The directive sought to accomplish this objective by designating, for different types of emergencies, an appropriate agency as "Incident Commander."


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