Sentence examples for designated as potential from inspiring English sources

Those arguing for eviction say that the oyster beds are in an area designated as "potential wilderness" by Congress.

The administration moved to open to potential oil and gas drilling 2.6 million acres of federal land near Desolation Canyon in Utah that Mr. Clinton's interior secretary, Bruce Babbitt, had designated as potential wilderness.

Last April, Interior Secretary Gale Norton and Gov. Michael Leavitt of Utah struck a deal that removed federal protection from about 2.6 million acres of land in Utah that her predecessor, Bruce Babbitt, had designated as potential wilderness.

In 2003, Gale Norton, then the secretary of the interior, and Michael Leavitt, then the governor of Utah, struck a deal that removed federal protections from about 2.6 million acres of public land in Utah that the Clinton administration had designated as potential wilderness.

Opponents said that the rule change could open up to bicycling millions of acres now designated as potential wilderness (bikes would still be banned in outright wilderness areas), and that changes in usage could affect whether those lands were eventually given permanent wilderness protections by Congress.

In 2003, Gale A. Norton, then the secretary of the interior, and Michael O. Leavitt, then the governor of Utah, struck a deal that removed federal protections from about 2.6 million acres of public land in Utah that had been designated as potential wilderness by the Clinton administration.

According to Ward Dennis, a Community Board 1 member who is also a chairman of Neighbors Allied for Good Growth, the Brooklyn waterfront was designated as a potential garbage transfer station back in the Giuliani era.

In the Cold War years, the aerodrome was designated as a potential launch point for military aircraft in a feared war with the former USSR.

In 1962, Franks' friend, J.E. Adams, found vacant land designated as a potential park site.

Fourteen years later, President Ford signed the Point Reyes Wilderness Act, encompassing Drake's Estero, which was designated as a "potential wilderness" because it contained a commercial enterprise.

NAS Oceana is the largest employer in Virginia Beach; it was decreed by the 2005 BRAC Commission that NAS Oceana must close unless the city of Virginia Beach condemns houses in areas designated as "Accident Potential Zones".