It matters not very much whether anything important has happened, the TV and radio bulletins will make their self-important appearance at the designated hour and at the designated length.
Ticket holders arrive at the Goethe-Institut at a designated hour and have their photos taken before being led inside the show, for reasons that become clear later.
At the designated hour, the man arrives at the foot of a tree in a great grove.
Turn off e-mail or Twitter when you work, put away your Blackberry at dinner time, ask your spouse to call you to bed at a designated hour.
My suggestions: Have the sirens go off at a designated hour.
Pieter had timed the pickup perfectly and, despite all that had happened, had gotten us there at our designated hour.
The entire cast of characters — the attorneys, the defendants, the witnesses, the court stenographer, the interpreter, and the judge — never contrived to assemble at the designated hour.
As one office in the Pétionville neighborhood closed at the designated hour, people still in line screamed in anger and disbelief.
At the designated hour, Fujihara made a neat stack of the happi coat, an Obama tie, and a copy of "Obama Is Beautiful World" and headed for the Mayor's conference room.
Unfortunately, however, dessert also arrived with an apologetic resettlement: to placate the neighbors, who have been famously opposed to the hotel and its occasionally rambunctious guests, the management has agreed to move everyone inside at the designated hour, ten o'clock on weekdays, eleven on Fridays and Saturdays.
"There's all sorts of weird, stressful things going through my mind with this new system," said Joraanstad, whose designated hour starts at 6 a.m.
