Sentence examples for was being designated from inspiring English sources

The Red Sox told the left-hander Scott Schoeneweis that he was being designated for assignment on Wednesday, the day before the first anniversary of his wife's death from a drug overdose.

Manns argues that nimbyism was a powerful motivation from early on: in 1960, it was observed that most of Surrey was being designated as green belt "with the object of ensuring that if London's population overleaps the green belt, as it's clearly doing, the emigrants shall alight, say, in Hampshire or Sussex, rather than in Surrey".

Did this mean that Lachlan (or even James) was being designated as Rupert's chosen successor?

My best friend was being designated driver but his older brother took me to one side, chomped a pink Mitsubishi in half and shoved the crumbly remains into my hand.

Their income is being designated as belonging nowhere.

Juppé said it was "intolerable that we are being designated as the main culprits".

$6$$)No-parking zones are being designated in the vicinity of the golf course.

At least $45 million is being designated to compensate authors and publishers whose books were scanned by Google before the settlement.

What they are all hoping to avoid is being designated "systemically important" by a council of financial regulators.

The study said that wilderness was being loss faster than pristine places were being designated as protected areas, at 3.3m sq km versus 2.5m sq km.

It is so massive that it is being designated a brown dwarf, a category reserved for bodies "too heavy to be planets but not heavy enough to be stars," Mr. Beatty said.