The phrase "a formal designation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to an official title or label assigned to a person, position, or entity.
Example: "The committee approved a formal designation for the new role within the organization."
Alternatives: "an official title" or "a recognized label".
Mr. Rowan and other former prosecutors said the most relevant statute is probably the prohibition on knowingly providing "material support or resources" to a foreign terrorist group, a formal designation by the State Department that includes both Jaish-e-Mohammed and Lashkar-e-Taiba.
In case of altered consciousness, the ethics committee waived the requirement for consent; according to Italian laws relatives are not regarded as legal representatives of the patient in the absence of a formal designation [23].
They've even gotten a formal designation by the US intel community: the KN-08.
The fact that the family Vesicomyidae comprises two taxonomically distinct groups formed by Vesicomya in one, and the genera of "large" vesicomyids in the other, calls for a formal designation of these groups.
At the level of physiological function, it should be added that those cyclohexadienyl dehydrogenases that exhibit a very substantial preference for prephenate are for all practical purposes prephenate dehydrogenases, even though they carry a formal designation of TyrAc or TyrAc_Δ.
In case of altered consciousness, the Ethics Committees waived the requirement for consent, as in Italy relatives are not regarded as legal representatives of the patient in the absence of a formal designation.
Last year, the unofficial "national game of Texas" received a more formal designation when the Legislature named it "the official state domino game".
More studies should be devoted to the practice of proxy consent and to questions regarding the extent to which formal designation of a proxy does guarantee a more accurate representation of a participant's wishes.
Word of the bird's survival problems preceded even its formal designation as a species.
The National Trust urged members and supporters to write to Robert B. Tierney, chairman of the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission, to support the formal designation of a Lower East Side Historic District.
Fox later issued a report, billed as a retraction, saying that "there was no formal designation of these zones".
