In 2011, Ms. Muñoz was the designated administration official to defend the deportations — which often separated children from parents — in a tough PBS documentary, "Lost in Detention".
"DeMarco is the designated administration whipping boy," said David Felt, the former head of conservatorship operations at FHFA. "They know at Treasury that he is right on the policy, but politically that is not a position they want to defend.
"The position of this administration will be the same as the Clinton administration," said Lawrence B. Lindsey, designated to be director of Mr. Bush's National Economic Council.
In 2008 Paulson became the designated leader of the Bush administration's attempt to stem a credit crisis resulting from widespread losses on faulty or subprime mortgage loans made by financial institutions.
Do I, as the only member of the board who, by law, can be fired at any time, the one designated as the administration's representative, talk to the administration?
In 1997, the Clinton administration designated the group as a foreign terrorist organization; the European Union declared it a terrorist organization in May of last year.
In the aftermath of the Bali bombing that killed more than 180 tourists, the Bush administration designated an Islamic militant group, Jemaah Islamiyah, as a terrorist organization.
Many towns in southern Somalia, including Merca, Chisimayu, Qoryooley and Buulo Mareer, are now firmly in the hands of the Shabab, the most militant wing of the Islamists and a group the Bush administration has designated a terrorist organization.
In 1995, the Clinton administration designated Hamas a terrorist group.
General Walters, who is known as Buck, was designated the Bush administration's "coordinator" for southern Iraq.
A woman, usually with a long sentence, is designated by the administration as "head monitor".
