So I think it's got to get through their self-designated leader first.    From Wordnik.com.  [Press Briefing By Joe Lockhart] Reference

What are now usually self-flatteringly self-designated "professional" jobs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lance Mannion:] Reference

Their mission, as a team, is to look after their self-designated constituency.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Newcomers, according to Ploumen, must avoid “self-designated victimization.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [From the left, a call to end the current Dutch notion of tolerance] Reference

But, to self-designated "terrorism experts" like Steve Emerson, keeping fear alive is Priority One.    From Wordnik.com.  [William Fisher: By Very Afraid. It's Good for Business!] Reference

The trumpet player, a self-designated mystic named Terry Hensley, was transcendentally facing a wall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Buried Alive, The Biography of Janis Joplin]

These grants are made on the strength of each PHA's self-designated drug and crime prevention program.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vp Announces Strategy Vs Crime In Public Housing] Reference

As the self-designated camera guy, I bemoaned my lack of an SLR camera, but managed to get a few passable shots.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2004-01-01] Reference

Indeed, Obama explicitly drew attention to the extent to which Bill is playing his new self-designated role, saying.    From Wordnik.com.  [Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Video: Obama Pushes Back Aggressively Against Bill Clinton] Reference

Norden was shrieking hatred for Taylor's nation, for all those who opposed the self-designated supermen of the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Whispering Spheres] Reference

Because free market (self-designated) zealots want to privatized ALL government services ... the kleptocrats 'rapturous dream.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paula Gordon: 'Ashes and Switches' for Whom?] Reference

Carpenter, self-designated "toolmaker of Lancaster," submitted patents for the improvement of wood planes between 1831 and 1849.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woodworking Tools 1600-1900] Reference

McCaulley and Baumann have attended recent functions at Edwards Air Force Base wearing their self-designated ranks and uniforms.    From Wordnik.com.  [STATE DEFENSE FORCES] Reference

They had amassed thick rolodexes and devised detailed flow charts, indicating how they would get to their self-designated promised lands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Samantha Power: Message to Graduates: "Be a Good Ancestor"] Reference

The masses, Indonesia's self-designated wong cilik, or "" little people, '' turned last week on symbols of Suharto's corruption and nepotism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Indonesia In Flames] Reference

Mako-time is my only self-designated relax/play time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jamie's Tokyo Blog -- Mainichi Gaijin de Tokyo!] Reference

She beheld him -- unfortunate, self-designated man that he was!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference

At least one crewmember, the self-designated "black MacGyver" Pooch.    From Wordnik.com.  [PopMatters]

Newcomers, according to Ploumen, must avoid "self-designated victimization.".    From Wordnik.com.  [No Oil for Pacifists] Reference

She even claimed to get along with some of the show's self-designated divas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kansas City Star: Front Page] Reference

In what passed for more peaceful times, virtually any of the self-designated "mainstream".    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

He self-designated himself as African American, and took pride in that then, and that hasn't changed.    From Wordnik.com.  [news.newamericamedia.org]

He self-designated himself as African-American, and took pride in that then, and that hasn't changed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hutchinson Political Report] Reference

One of Spain's self-designated roles in Europe is to hector the rest of the Union to be tough on Israel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Republic - All Feed] Reference

This bolsters their self-designated role as the experts and arbiters of the inner craft of American politics.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference

Guess what, Governor Palin, your husband Todd, Alaska's self-designated "first dude" has held membership in it.    From Wordnik.com.  [COUNTERCOLUMN: The Adjunct of Evil] Reference

Rs spewed about health care reform last year, but he took the initiative to become a self-designated "death panel.".    From Wordnik.com.  [mbryan's shared items in Google Reader] Reference

Carissa Outen crossed one of many self-designated finish lines Saturday when she graduated from North Central High School.    From Wordnik.com.  [The News Tribune Blogs] Reference

Mike Bresnahan covers the Lakers for The Times and ties up loose ends on the day of his self-designated "Lakers game of the week.".    From Wordnik.com. Reference

You can make a documentary virtually alone, and there are a lot of these kinds of self-designated storytellers in documentary now.    From Wordnik.com.  [P2P Foundation] Reference

Rick Beard Dons His Other Hat caught us up with the mysterion's zen-like stillness as self-designated leader of the Sesquicentennial.    From Wordnik.com.  [Civil War Bookshelf] Reference

(ACNA), a self-designated 39th province consisting of 100,000 disenchanted former Episcopalians, as an alternate voice of Anglicanism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Front Page - The Washington Times] Reference