assigned

• “The apartments are described as mostly "Class B," a designation assigned to older properties.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Dad's Legacy to Be Sold

• “Some of this scuttlebutt would have my name assigned to a mission.”

  Simon & Schuster: Riding Rockets

• “Even the name assigned to that astounding venture was still among the most closely guarded Federation secrets, and with good reason.”

  Simon & Schuster: A Time to Sow

• “Prof. DYSON: Well, hip-hop is the term assigned to rap music -- not only rap music, but the larger culture out of which rap music issues.”

  Holler If You Hear Me: Searching for Tupac Shakur

• “The word “angel,” of course, is the generic name for all members of the heavenly host, as well as the name assigned to the lowest rank in the descending scale of spiritual creatures.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Angels and Us

• “Meanwhile, dismissed by Nahusha, Sachi went to Vrihaspati and said, 'But little remaineth of the term assigned by Nahusha to me.”

  The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7

• “The second day after the defeat of the tiger was the term assigned by the astrologers.”

  Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers

• “Upon seeing this, I again convened the fathers and priests, and we agreed to admit the owner of slaves to confession, but on condition that they make no objection to what your Majesty may order; or that within two years from the departure of this ship (the term assigned to them by your Majesty) they should free the slaves.”

  The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 05 of 55 1582-1583 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century

• “And our auditors, before they send the record, shall cause the parties to be cited to come and appear before the said council in pursuance of the said action, within the term assigned them, with warning that if they do not appear, the case will be decided in their absence.”

  The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 05 of 55 1582-1583 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century

• “Moreover, if the jurists agree in allowing conditional liberation, before the term assigned in the sentence, when the prisoner seems to have given proof of amendment, the natural consequence, by mere abstract logic, ought to be a prolongation of punishment for the prisoner who is not amended, but continues to be dangerous.”

  Criminal Sociology

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