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Looting of their properties and appropriation of their business establishments are undertaken to ensure that they do not return.
Recently sociolinguistics have been paying much attention to the appropriation of English across the globe.
Again, the courts' reluctance to countenance the compulsory appropriation of private rights is evident.
In Eliot's appropriation of the legend, however, the narrative of masculine attainment is rescripted as an initiation ritual.
So if need be, yes, there could be a rider on their appropriation bill that no money should be expended by the FCC to administer the Powell rule.
Once again, isn't it worth asking why these types of appropriation bill riders are allowed?
I think there will be money in a supplemental appropriation as early as next week.
Many of the works on the political side of the spectrum relied on fragmentation, appropriation and postmodern distancing to make their points.
The appropriation and resignification of images and other cultural products, of course, is a common cross-cultural occurrence.
Both the copies and the rubbings are completely different in spirit from postmodernist appropriation.
The power of this image has begun a trend of appropriation within art culture.
In this sense, one of the primary postconceptualist strategy, appropriation, was deployed rapaciously upon Conceptual art itself.
Congress actually passed a bill which made Sunday closing a condition for the appropriation of federal money.
The bill called for a modest appropriation of five million dollars per year to launch the project.
An important technique of contemporary music making involves the appropriation of older recordings through the use of digital sampling.
In appropriating reproductive power without women, it enacts an appropriation of maternity by patriarchy.
Part of it seems to be an appropriation and sharing of the Maori concept of turangawaewae.
The wording of section 3 seems to allow a simple change of mind, unaccompanied by any overt act, to constitute appropriation.
This scheme is Otsuka's response to Locke's proviso governing the appropriation of unowned resources.
Such a novel would have been a piece of brass-necked theft, or a massive act of cultural appropriation.
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The appropriation of sufficient funds to permit proper enforcement of the present antitrust laws is essential.
The Congress has not heretofore made any appropriation for the better enforcement of the antitrust law as it now stands.
How about the blatant person who had declared HE could have gotten the appropriation?
Who is it that's been sayin' the Honorable Heman Atkins was shirkin' that appropriation?
The person making the artwork already integrates the appropriation in the making.
I am held accountable to the Secretary of the Treasury semiannually for the manner in which the appropriation has been expended.
Very few of these semipublic charities have an income from all other sources equal to the appropriation from the city.
According to the reason of the rule, the great appropriation bills must be equally within its intendment.
What an appropriation of terra firma for a chimney, and what a huge load for this earth!
In mare clausum John Selden endeavoured to prove that the sea was practically as capable of appropriation as territory.
Once re-evaluation started, the processes of artmaking and aesthetic appropriation grew relatively disconnected.
Others may protest that retelling and appropriation do violence to the original.
The appropriation of the money did not lessen the odium of the tax.
Bryce's method of reconstruction and artistic appropriation of history has by now taken on encyclopedic dimensions.
Complementing Superflex's liberal use of appropriation, the curators performed their own involutions of authorship.
I presume you have 'phoned me concerning the appropriation matter.
This appropriation is not in a lump sum but by allotments or funds.
The islanders looked upon the people who made this cavalier appropriation of their shores with mingled feelings of fear and detestation.
My outlay, however, was all refunded from this appropriation.
But take it away, and all appropriation ceases, and a very pretty gallant charade remains, fit for any collection.
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