Mr. Aktas recalled that over the last year there have been revelations suggesting that Turkish police agencies assign false identities to assassins and terrorists carrying out semiofficial clandestine missions.

Readers, of course, should always tread lightly when assigning factual identities to fictional characters, since writers invariably insist that their creations are just that.

On entering a scene an individual defines the situation by assigning identities to each participant, frequently in accord with an encompassing social institution.

Observers who assigned different identities to the observed individuals could have different interpretations of the behavior.

In this case, observers assign new identities that are confirmed by the behavior.

The London costumes suggest a set of six toy trains, identical apart from having been painted in different colours and quite arbitrarily assigned national identities.

Strabo mentioned that the Curetes were assigned multiple identities and places of origin (i.e. either Acarnanians, Aetolians, from Crete, or from Euboea).

For years it has been trying to assign names and identities to the remains, to give their families some finality.

Created by Bruce Buschel, a journalist and filmmaker, and Diane Paulus, who also directs, the show assigns identities to each of the four singers.

But for an employer - especially a public agency - to assign racial identities to employees is counter to Federal rules, which say an individual has the last word in specifying his or her race.