Sentence examples for appropriate them from inspiring English sources

Arab dictators also sometimes gravitated to Shakespeare's works because they could appropriate them for anti-Semitic purposes.

Cook is concerned that "freedom and liberty are universal values... we must not let George Bush appropriate them to provide an ideological cover for his new imperialism..

Maupin "lost whole generations of friends - and readers, I might add - to Aids, and I listened to their stories and try to appropriate them".

The true owner of their works is the public, which will appropriate them for its own concerns regardless of the critic.

Along the way he has absorbed various cultural traditions even while using his New York perspective to appropriate them for his own sophisticated designs.

What makes the job harder is that the guardians of French also want to keep out foreign words, whereas English tends to appropriate them.

I suppose Lucas has now taken revenge by appropriating them in turn.

She appropriates them in order to tell her own stories, as well as theirs.

Our son Dexter, who just turned 5, has appropriated them for his private food-filing system.

Mr. Forschein has heard all the excuses — and has often appropriated them as defenses.

Most of the funds allocated to CIFF are reinvested in TCI until the foundation appropriates them to projects.