The phrase "a specific official" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a particular person in an official capacity, often to clarify or specify which official you are talking about.
Example: "The report must be submitted to a specific official in the department to ensure proper processing."
Alternatives: "a particular official" or "a designated official".
Under federal law, gratuities to a public official are illegal only when they are given in exchange for a specific official action, whether that action is taken or merely promised.
Likewise, McDonnell's argument is that Congress can only prohibit bribery when there is an explicit quid pro quo a payment or gift in return for a specific official act.
Your blogger called the commission to ask what that means exactly, and to find out if a specific official or friend of an official felt they had been diddled out of their money.
"With video clips that have attracted the most attention, we see that the authorities are prepared to make what for them are unpleasant decisions, like punishing a specific official," said Grigory Melkonyants, the deputy director of Golos, an independent election-monitoring group in Russia.
In such cases, black letter case law holds that judges must instruct juries that they can only convict a campaign fundraiser of bribing public officials through campaign contributions if clear evidence exists of a quid pro quo agreement for a specific official act by the recipient in exchange for the campaign contributions.
Like the Senate version, the House bill calls for Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano to designate a specific official to coordinate efforts to prevent "homegrown violent Islamist extremism, including the violent ideology of Al Qaeda and its affiliated groups, in the United States".
However, whatever they took the initiative to do in each case was not the result of any specific official guidelines.
Hong Kong's leader named a panel of international experts today to draft contingency plans for another SARS outbreak next winter, but said no specific official would be investigated in the government's handling of the disease here this spring.
In case of in vivo data, specific official protocols are listed to get high quality data, following OECD or USEPA procedures.
But they must share the sensitive information through specific official channels to avoid arrest or reprisals at work. .
During the past decade, VACV has spread to all regions of Brazil, and no specific official national programs are in place to prevent the disease (4, 13 – 13 ).
