Also, the supporters of the reforms have appropriated "Obamacare" – originally intended as a derisive label by its opponents – and are now using it with enthusiasm.
And though Congress approved the Green Jobs Act, no money for job training has been appropriated.
While territory may be defensively occupied, it cannot be unilaterally appropriated as the country's own sovereign territory.
Politicians and hashtags don't always make an easy mix, especially when a hashtag is appropriated for political aims.
Critics – often on the left – have argued that both "coming to terms with the Nazi past" and "overcoming the legacies of the GDR" might have been failures after all: in the case of the former, the critics claim that Germans have essentially appropriated the victims of the Holocaust in order to feel good about their own efforts in remembrance.
(The federal money would go to building a Kentucky dam, although it would still have be appropriated before it being disbursed. In the end McConnell's fellow Kentucky senator, Lamar Alexander, stepped up and claimed responsibility-slash-credit for the dam deal).
Each DNA confirmation that a missing grandchild had been found and reunited with their biological family, usually accompanied by legal action against the "mother and father" who had appropriated them, has been greeted with joy across the political spectrum.
Instead it is a robust shell to be appropriated and modified over time – or, as Facebookers would have it, "hacked".
Racists want to appropriate the English flag of St George, as they appropriated the Union flag for a time, decades ago.
More wire is rolled out, more poison set down, scrub and trees burned and water sources appropriated.
Peasants, it said, should have the right to negotiate their own price for land appropriated from them.Isolated groups of peasants elsewhere followed suit, including some in Shaanxi, Jiangsu, Sichuan and Tianjin.
