Sentence examples for designating themselves from inspiring English sources

Today's kitchens are increasingly unwilling to engage in any sort of dialogue at all with their guests, designating themselves as the final authorities on what diners should and should not want to eat.

Jack Boyd New York, March 6, 2008 To the Editor: You deserve credit for spotlighting a longstanding urban inequity: while many honest motorists ply the streets daily, foraging for legal parking places, others park most anywhere -- whether or not on city business -- displaying genuine or bogus placards, designating themselves for special treatment.

Residential buildings in BC are also following suit, designating themselves as "smoke free".

For an example of personal persuasion, the McDonald's corporation in India has had great marketing success in designating themselves as the "McDonalds Family Restaurant".

Some sought to rationalize segregation and limiting equality and opportunity with appeals of "tradition" or designating themselves as true Americans, (even as they ignored the Native American's rights, the only authentic claim to original American).

Meglenoromanians designate themselves with the Macedonian form Vla (plural Vlaš) in their own language.

In polls, only 30percentto40percentcent of Americans say they have designated themselves as donors on their driver's licenses or on state-run donor registries.

[New York Post] Councilman David Greenfield of Brooklyn has proposed "Leiby's Law," which would allow businesses to designate themselves as havens for lost children.

Indie fans designate themselves as the anointed ones, who, applying their puritan principles of authenticity, can recognise true music in contrast to false idolatry.

Because of certain views on being "called to holiness," members of many sects have designated themselves as "the saints"—from Oliver Cromwell's "saints" in 17th-century England to the Mormon "latter-day saints" from the 19th to the 21st century.

Societies along such a continuum may continue to designate themselves as either capitalist or socialist, but they are likely to reveal as many similarities as differences in their solutions to economic problems.