The final version of the Emancipation Proclamation came on January first,declaring: " ...all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then,thenceforward, and forever free ..."

VOA: special.2010.05.10

The law in question bars material support to groups designated by the U.S.government as terrorist organizations.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

even though they have been designated as foreign terrorist organizations by the State Department.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

"Earlier today,the president designated three Mexican organizations under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act.

VOA: standard.2009.04.15

The text defines genocide as the intentional killing of all or part of a designated people defined by their faith,their race, their ethnicity or their nationality.

VOA: standard.2010.03.19

"There is no doubt that there was, in fact,a state organized, systematic deportation and massacre of a designated population, defined by their religion and ethnicity,namely the Armenians."

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

So now Cape May all of it, not just a neighborhood or two is preserved as a historic district, the first ever designated in America.

VOA: standard.2010.03.15

And that definition argues that a genocide is the intentional killing of all or part of a designated people defined by their faith,their race, their ethnicity or their nationality."

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

It says the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) have lost many senior leaders and are now confined in a 20 square kilometer safety zone that has been designated by the government for civilians seeking sanctuary from the fighting.

VOA: standard.2009.04.06