designation
Example Sentences
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State police declared the Sydney visit to be a "major event", a designation that allows them to separate different groups to reduce the risk of confrontation.
From Barron's
Food & Drug Administration has granted the Phase 1 REPLACE™ clinical trial fast-track designation, a status that helps speed the development and review process.
From Science Daily
Among them are ice dance couple Diana Davis and Gleb Smolkin, who competed under the ROC designation in Beijing four years ago, made moves towards skating for the U.S.—and instead landed on Tbilisi.
The designation makes group members ineligible to enter the US, freezes any assets they may have there and makes it a crime to provide material support to the group.
From BBC
Baqaei said Monday the foreign ministry had summoned all the EU member state ambassadors in Tehran over the designation, and that other responses were to come.
From Barron's
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