Sentence examples for like designating from inspiring English sources

In the South and the West, several states have recently sought to burnish their gun-friendly images by approving largely symbolic measures, like designating an official state firearm.

Past lawsuits by conservationists forced the wildlife service to spend time and money on tasks like designating protected habitats for already listed wildlife instead of considering new candidates, Mr. Frazer said.

Jon Meyer, the school's co-principal, said the administrators chose loose standards to allow older students to express themselves while minimizing the potentially divisive effects of dress, like designating gang affiliation or economic differences.

The fear is that the dissolution of the most infamous piece of the spying apparatus might serve as a pretext for Bratton's NYPD to continue some of Kelly's worst policies, like designating entire mosques as terrorist organizations (and using that as an excuse for spying on everyone who frequents them) as well as infiltrating Muslim student groups on college campuses.

To that end, members of the Brooklyn Heights Association and the Municipal Art Society recently walked through Downtown Brooklyn, looked beyond the flashy signs to the turrets, cast iron and terra cotta, and chose 16 buildings that they would like designated as landmarks.

It is a multimeric protein comprised of 6 subunits; 2 are α-like (designated 3 and 5) and the remainder are β-like (assigned numbers 1, 2, 4 and 6).

One group is plant specific and designated as BrDAR, and another is CRP-like designated as BrLIM.

"He was a man who needed women to cry in his place, like designated drivers or proxy voters".

Organizations like Voices of Citizens Together in California and Federation for American Immigration Reform in Washington, D.C., convinced her, she said, that compromise solutions like designated hiring sites were self-defeating.

The rainbow and granite of it, where that lives, and what that looks like in 2016 is exciting; for me it looks like designated spaces, online and in real life, for queer people of colour and trans folk.

Under the guidelines, liquor companies had to run four months of so-called social responsibility ads on subjects like designated drivers before they could run commercials for brands of liquor.