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This makes Homeland a money magnet, one of the rare federal agencies for which Congress appropriates more funds than the president seeks.
What the figures on executive compensation show is how much social wealth the tiny elite appropriates for their personal bank accounts.
As it becomes popular music, world music appropriates the past and tradition to effect a radical break with them.
Although the rondo finale appropriates themes from earlier movements, the ideas seem to try too hard the second time around.
Lawrence's Women in Love, for instance, deliberately appropriates deviant sexualities in the construction of an alternative form of society.
Heidegger appropriates from Book 6 of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics the different ways beings can be uncovered by Dasein.
These days a whole new realm of exotica arises out of the way one culture colours and appropriates the products of another.
A user can be someone who appropriates the history, image, or reputation of a work of architecture for his own ends.
Newspapers should not roll over before a seven-year-old church as it appropriates titles from others that carry the weight of history.
Stealing appropriates the fruits of someone else's labor without his permission.
Neo-modernism simply appropriates images and technology while forsaking old hopes and old ideas of the social.
Rather, he appropriates the imagery of literary modernism to describe it.
Through the legislative process, the parliament appropriates funds for the preparation of national development plans.
Parliament then votes on its program priorities and appropriates money for them from the CRF through the Estimates process.
The beginning seeds of the ability to love grow from the way man appropriates his initial dependence experience.
Accompanied by a classical orchestra, the American appropriates the repertory of the Italian pop music from the fifties and the sixities.
Based upon recommendations by the Fifth Committee, the Assembly adopts a budget for each mission and appropriates the related funds.
He latches on to a young, would-be journo, takes over his bed, nicks his laptop, appropriates his cash, and sleeps with the hackette he fancies.
Isocrates, on the other hand, appropriates the language of praise as a goading device to strengthen the commitment of his polis to a pan-Hellenic ideal.
Narcissister removes the tease from the strip as she unflinchingly appropriates feminine likenesses to new subversive ends.
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Examples from Classical Literature
American football is possibly the first post-modern game in that it appropriates from the old for use in a new age.
Captain Kitson is not content with putting on my apron, but he appropriates my petticoats also.
He remains original, even while he appropriates the words and thoughts of another.
If he appropriates it, then not only the earth, but the right to it too, belongs to him.
If he appropriates it, then not merely the earth, but also the right to it, belongs to him.
It is new, but still it appropriates to itself what is graceful and useful in the past.
Every thing that he appropriates, he stamps with the character of his own nationality.
The radius appropriates, at its superior extremity, the coronoid process of the ulna.
Accordingly, to sanction idolatry, it appropriates the name of the Word of God.
He appropriates Ritualism for Religion and it becomes his doctrine.
He comes in quietly with his hat on, appropriates the most comfortable chair, lights his pipe, and commences to puff in silence.
Lee appropriates the angularity of the monoliths in her smaller multi-part raku wall works that merge painting and sculpture.
What, therefore, the wage-labourer appropriates by means of his labour, merely suffices to prolong and reproduce a bare existence.
The first chapter of Gothic Masculinity shows us how the Hegelian narrative of subjectivity appropriates the gothic-hysterical models that it seeks to repress and deny.
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