Sentence examples for designated acting from inspiring English sources

Cox was then dismissed by Robert Bork, who had quickly been designated acting attorney general.

She is the author, most recently, of "Under Fire: Reporting from the Front Lines of the Trump White House". Friday, when CNN's Abby Phillip asked Trump if he wanted newly designated acting attorney general Matthew Whitaker to "rein in" special counsel Robert Mueller, Trump tried to dismiss her by saying: "What a stupid question that is.

The divide is just one of many challenges Mr. Jonathan faces, but now he will do so as Nigeria's full-fledged chief executive instead of as an awkwardly designated "acting president," the in-between status given him three months ago by the National Assembly.

"In the three and a half years since Edward J. DeMarco was designated Acting Director of FHFA," the press release announcing the letter noted, "questions have persisted about his repeated failure to utilize the authorities available to FHFA to promote a healthy housing finance market".

He was elected to the Civil Court in 1977, and in 1984 was designated an acting Supreme Court justice.

Dellacroce, by that time the underboss in the Gambino family, designated him acting capo of the Bergen crew.

So why would anyone designated as acting attorney general by Mr. Trump, let alone the president himself, go along with such an order?

In an interview with Fox News that aired on Sunday, Mr. Trump claimed that he did not know that Mr. Whitaker had criticized the Russia investigation before he designated him acting attorney general, circumventing Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein.

Paul D. Clement, a senior Justice official who has been designated the acting attorney general for purposes of the investigation, has already advised Fielding on his view of the breadth of executive privilege.

Depending on their location with respect to their target, these molecules are designated to act as cis- or trans-acting RNAs [ 1– 3].

For this purpose, many anti-viral reagents have been investigated, and novel reagents designated direct-acting antiviral agents (DAAs) that inhibit viral proteins directly have been established3.