Sentence examples for appropriate it to from inspiring English sources

The insurance case becomes urgently resonant when an anti-slavery activist, Frederick Ashton, attempts to appropriate it to prove under the law that "the Negroes thrown overboard" were not "property and nothing else", but men and women, and therefore the victims of murder.

The story's claim on our attention is not self-generated: it has a key and, furthermore, it relies on our knowing something about that key, yet not too much, so that we as readers might grant the author license not just to alter the truth (big deal) but to appropriate it, to claim it as his or her own patch of created ground.

Obvious question for these volunteer laborers: Sure, it's nice to know that lots of people are using your code, but when the already megawealthy freely appropriate it to get even richer, don't you feel like a little bit of a sap?

Recorded stuff is where those patrons get to take ur music and appropriate it to their own lives.

It needs to fit in, it needs to be appropriate, it needs to be comfortable".

If it is appropriate, it is okay to listen too.

Is it fully appropriate to go to Myanmar now?

"When it is appropriate to use it, it will be used".

It seems wholly appropriate to try to shore up confidence.

But it would be more appropriate to rename it to STEM Masters' and Doctors' Visa Act.

"But it's perfectly appropriate to give it to 1% of teen boys and let them talk about it".