He arrived five minutes after the specified time.

Tom had to take a drug test, but he could only do it through the specified provider.

My mom had specified the chores that each one of us had to do.

It was Franklin Delano Roosevelt who stirred the pot again in 1939, by moving Thanksgiving to the third Thursday in November. Up until then, Americans had marked the holiday on the last Thursday in November, a date first specified by Lincoln. The new date was Roosevelt's bid to lengthen the Christmas shopping season and boost the nation’s economic recovery after the Great Depression.

When he issued the proclamation, he sent copies of that to governors of each of the states, 13 at the time, and asked them to call a national Thanksgiving on the day that Washington specified, the last Thursday of November,” says Melanie Kirkpatrick, author of “Thanksgiving: The Holiday at the Heart of the American Experience.”

Use of controls or adjustments or performance of procedures other than those specified herein may result in hazardous radiation exposure.

Use the apparatus only with the cart, tripod, bracket or table specified by the manufacturer, or sold with the apparatus.

Consequent conduct is specified.

The implementation does not meet the specified requirements.

If the source is not specified, a quote is not a quote but plagiarism.