Sentence examples for a reappropriation from inspiring English sources

The spending then must be authorized a second time, a "reappropriation".

All of it is a reappropriation and, barring a new budget deal, all of it will evaporate.

Protesting naked, as Femen's slogans insist, is liberté, a reappropriation of their own bodies as opposed to pornography or snatched photographs which are exploitation.

The group's first full-fledged experiment with the concept of rhetorical software was "White Collar Crime Risk Zones," which they call "a reappropriation of a predictive policing algorithm".

There was also a softening of boundaries during that era – in a way, Damon working with Phil Daniels had some parallels with Tony Blair representing the Labour party... a reappropriation of traditionally working-class iconography by middle-class intelligentsia.

Here the words and the ritual actions allow a reappropriation of the entire story of salvation: Father in heaven, it is right that we should give you thanks and glory: you alone are God, living and true.

Hugh Jackman sauntered onstage to deliver Oh What a Beautiful Morning, a sly reappropriation of the Morning in American slogan.

This distinction entails the possibility of critique of reification that does not require a complete reappropriation of objective social forms by a collective subject.

The centers for the disabled that Mr. Williams represents stand to lose a $10.5 million reappropriation, most of their budget for the year, plus a $1 million legislative addition for next year.

It was a thoughtful reappropriation that partly highlighted how wrong it was.

To signal dissent, Obama flopped his hand: a novel reappropriation of limp-wristedness to suggest self-determination.