Sentence examples for appropriate for himself from inspiring English sources

After 11 days of debate, a jury in New York agreed with the prosecution that he took advantage of her after she developed Alzheimer's disease from 2000, forcing her to change her will without her conscious understanding, so as to appropriate for himself her $185m £115mm) fortune.

If, as charged, Mr. Marshall appropriated for himself money and art that was intended for New York institutions, his mother would think even the indignity of the trial was worth it, said Ms. Kiernan.

A London chronicler observed simply: "Simon de Montfort appropriated for himself the earldom of Chester".

His opponents could offer no alternative policy that was either plausible or believable since the one they favored was one they had designed but which the president had appropriated for himself".

There are "officials" in charge of the distribution of each thing, who keep an eye out and make sure that this happens justly, but no one can appropriate anything for himself.

The next day, John sees Mr. Noerdlinger, naked, urinating in the ocean, "appropriating it for himself".

The writer is taking events that belong to several people, appropriating them for himself, and turning them into something that feels alien to those who have lived them.

But the guest did not rise; instead, he continued to sit in his place and even stretched out his hand and poured more ice water with lemon and mint leaves into the glass that had been Aryeh Zelnik's until he had appropriated it for himself.

Sexx Money's Open Letter to MIfey civilization

If civilisation collapsed tomorrow, the old motto of the United States, "Out of many, one," would be replaced with the more appropriate "Every man for himself".

"How do we make it appropriate for kids?" he asked himself.