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How to use arrogate in a sentence

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It is doubtful that the US can successfully arrogate this privilege only to itself.
A monarch would attempt to arrogate power to himself, as do all the current Middle Eastern kings.
We didn't think you'd start trying to arrogate powers to yourself that aren't yours!
First, she argues that the appointing authority cannot arrogate to itself the power to convene an invalidity committee.
Let no one arrogate to himself the right to make regulations and impose them on others at will.
So, whatever pressure that I have to do so, I cannot and I will not arrogate such authority to myself.
No community, corporation, political party or association, trade union, individual or group of individuals may arrogate its exercise.
No section of the people or any individual shall arrogate to itself or to himself the exercise thereof.
It is a heretical act of arrogance to arrogate divinity for oneself or to claim multiple incarnations.
This in no way means that these countries arrogate the right to preserve this status permanently.
According to Rabbi Meir God establishes his kingdom even through those who turn from Him and arrogate to themselves what belongs to Him.
This follows this House's tradition of fighting the attempts of the Brussels bureaucracy to arrogate to itself the powers of the Member States.
It is definitely alarming that a president can arrogate to himself this kind of power, whoever the president is.
However, resident coordinators should be content with their role as orchestral conductors and not use their position to arrogate to themselves the functions of executing agents.
This is not an attempt by the European Union to arrogate powers to itself, but rather to optimise the exchange of information between the relevant authorities in the Member States.
No one may arrogate power in the Republic of Kazakhstan.
I mean the larger craziness of allowing politicians to arrogate to themselves the right to name every large public work, new or old, after other politicians.
There is rarely commitment by the people to any policy which is imposed from above or from outside by those who assert that they have the knowledge and arrogate to themselves the authority to decide for others.
By expressing ourselves as we have this afternoon, we have exhibited a presumption, an arrogance, and a desire to arrogate power to the centre and to overrule the national traditions of our constituent members.
In more precise terms, they were involved in the fodging of false documents intended to arrogate to themselves an early  rank advancement, which would have allowed to earn a higher pay than their due.
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Examples from Classical Literature
You arrogate to yourselves all the rights, as you have done all the virtues!
I am not come of a stock so distinguished that I can arrogate to myself the defence of my order.
They did not arrogate to themselves the authority to originate.
Presumptuous and ignorant men, who arrogate the earth to yourselves!
The human and fallible should not arrogate a power with which the divine and perfect alone can be safely intrusted.
What right had he to arrogate to himself again powers of life and death?
But it is not for me to arrogate to determine the Queen's mind.
John Wray Country Stoves will be at the Yorkshire Show, in arrogate with many stoves and Agas on display.
No outside actor should arrogate to itself the responsibility to judge the fragility or instability within a state to justify intervention.
Far be it from me to arrogate to myself the attributes of the Deity.
Are you sure you don't arrogate too much of the credit to yourself.
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