Sentence examples for self designation from inspiring English sources

Morrison said asylum seekers "will be required to confine themselves to designated regions... or an employer in a region can request to be designated by a national self designation process".

It is unknown as to whether the term Thamizhar and its equivalents in Prakrit such as Damela, Dameda, Dhamila and Damila was a self designation or a term denoted by outsiders.

The French foreign minister, Laurent Fabius, has rightly suggested we reject Isis's self-designation.

There's more Freudianism afoot in Andersen's self-designation as an amphibious "marsh-plant".

(For a further discussion of the labels, see Researcher's Note: "Aborigines" and self-designation).

The term saint was originally a self-designation of all Christians.

His own enigmatic self-designation was "Son of man," sometimes in allusion to his suffering, sometimes to his future role as judge.

Tujia, Wade-Giles romanization T'u-chia, self-designation Bizika, any member of a people distributed over western Hunan and southwestern Hubei provinces in China.

Even the self-designation gnostic is problematic, since it is attested for only some of the traditions conventionally treated as gnostic and its connotations are ambiguous.

Moncrieff, who was Uranian, as the self-designation was then, emerged from the élite boarding school Winchester College and Edinburgh University into that strange half-lit, prewar world of London homosexuality after the Wilde trial.

Even the title was spin: "federalist" was originally the self-designation of the weak-government proponents of the Articles of Confederation; Madison, Hamilton, Jay, and their ilk had earlier called themselves "nationalists".