The phrase "a greater appropriation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing an increase in the allocation or use of resources, funds, or assets.
Example: "The committee has requested a greater appropriation for the upcoming fiscal year to support new initiatives."
Alternatives: "an increased allocation" or "a larger funding".
It was great appropriation, but something more was in order.
Many of history's great inventions are really great appropriations — middling ideas if used as intended, brilliant when reoriented or co-opted.
[cartoon id= a18110"] Many of history's great inventions are really great appropriations — middling ideas if used as intended, brilliant when reoriented or co-opted.
Over the past decade, while the amount of money going to community college students in the form of federal Pell grants has risen significantly, financing for the colleges themselves, which rely to a great extent on government appropriations and foundation grants, has risen only modestly.
This is a great snotty, nasty, fun, bratty appropriation of 1950s "gee whiz" comic panel sensibilities.
Morton's 19th-century biographer, William Dudley Foulke, points out that Morton took a great risk in bypassing a state appropriation: had a future Legislature not upheld his actions, he might have been held personally liable for the money he borrowed.
Richard's work is an extreme example of this appropriation, and thus a great locus for studying the art world's re-mythologization of myth a subject Roland Barthes famously deconstructed in his series essays on pop culture as modern-day myths, collected in Mythologies.
Recreating and re-imagining cultural touchstones can be tacky, sure, but it's not appropriation any more than a Great Pyramid of Giza paperweight is grave robbery.
"It doesn't come at a great time," said Michael B. Kaplowitz, chairman of the budget and appropriations committee of the Westchester County Board of Legislators.
