Sentence examples for attempt to designate a from inspiring English sources
The italicized "him" is Cavafy's desperate attempt to designate a single target for all those pronouns, but language doesn't work that way: the pronouns miss, and the fact that they miss is the reason, after all, that Cavafy is in despair.
There was a time when I considered Ronald Reagan's attempt to designate ketchup as a vegetable for school lunch programs as the height of callous ignorance.
Judge Brimmer ruled that the Forest Service's designation of roadless areas was a "thinly veiled attempt to designate 'wilderness areas.' " About 18percentt of national forests have been formally designated wilderness and about half the forests have been opened to logging.
Judge Brimmer called such rules a "thinly veiled attempt to designate 'wilderness areas.' " He also wrote that the rules, which took two years to develop and pass, were a "rush to give President Clinton lasting notoriety in the annals of environmentalism".
The attempt to designate mystical experiences as paradoxical in senses (3) and (4) may result from being too eager to take logically deviant language at its most literal.
He angered women's groups again when he attempted to designate PMS as a mental disorder ("pre-menstrual dysphoric disorder").
More recently, the UK government attempted to designate the islands as a nature reserve, which, according to a 2010 US state department cable provided by Chelsea Manning to Wikileaks, was intended to scupper Chaggosian claims to resettlement.
Many writers have attempted to designate one person, often Hensley, as the progenitor of Appalachian religious snake handling.
Attempts to designate only the Hinomaru as the national flag by the DPJ and other parties during the vote of the bill were rejected by the Diet.
However, because Lake Malawi cichlid fishes retain ancestral polymorphism that may predate the species flock (Loh et al. 2008) we have not attempted to designate ancestral versus derived alleles.
Not a bad way to designate a crumbling monarchy.
