The term "target" is used by Federal prosecutors to designate people or institutions liable - but not certain - to face indictment.

His thesis is that the "terms and labels" that designate poor people as undeserving may be obstacles preventing their escape from poverty.

There is a similar provision for the Mayor to designate people from his office to act for him, except on laws.

Mr. Aspin has designated several people for newly created jobs dealing with international affairs, peacekeeping, budget and personnel.

Of all states, only North Carolina gave social workers the power to designate people for sterilization.

The vocative is less used as it is normally restricted to nouns designating people or things which are commonly addressed directly.

Under the Rockefeller drug law, it designated them a grave danger to the social fabric, people who had to be stopped through tough law enforcement.

It seems likely, though, that a bureaucrat could just as easily have decided she was colored, as South Africans officially designate people of mixed race.

Beur is a colloquial term to designate French-born people whose parents are immigrants from North Africa.

"incomplete ones", a dismissive term generally used to designate people with mental disorders or who display poor judgment).