The phrase "appropriate themselves" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where individuals or groups take ownership or claim something for themselves, often in a cultural or social context.
Example: "Some artists tend to appropriate themselves of cultural symbols without understanding their significance."
Alternatives: "claim for themselves" or "take ownership of".
It was made clear to them, and their LMA appointed lawyers, that the nature of the communications meant the club was under a duty to report their findings to the FA if they did not take appropriate action themselves.
While he doesn't necessarily blame school leaders – who he says have often not had appropriate training themselves – what is needed, he says, is a strategic, government-led approach to initial teacher and school leader training on the issue.
The very name Byzantine illustrates the misconceptions to which the empire's history has often been subject, for its inhabitants would hardly have considered the term appropriate to themselves or to their state.
Bonica, McCarty, Poole and Rosenthal argue that politics can be an effective tool to restore economic fairness — that government can, and should, correct imbalances the market produces, providing for those who cannot compete, ensuring opportunity for those who can and blocking those who would appropriate to themselves what the authors see as an excessive share of our national prosperity.
This tool will simply make that linking much easier and more user friendly, and sites will have to decide on what constitutes appropriate action themselves.
It is one that Celtic cannot answer, other than to assure fans that they have made or will make the appropriate representations themselves.
On the discovery of this immense continent, the great nations of Europe were eager to appropriate to themselves so much of it as they could respectively acquire.
The Ugandan People's Defense Force has long been accused of corruption, with military commanders pocketing funds meant for supplies and even creating lists of "ghost soldiers" whose pay they appropriate for themselves.
One lab later, they identify the appropriate control themselves.
This is a one-item scale, and patients marked the appropriate face themselves.
