They appropriated vast amounts of provisions, leaving the town intact when they departed.
Peasants were given tiny plots of land, while Ortega and his confederates appropriated vast swaths of real estate and millions of dollars from the state's accounts.
In the past two decades senior officials have appropriated vast sums in Uttar Pradesh, and more broadly in India, in everything from second-generation mobile phones and cricket's Indian Premier League to rural healthcare.
Ethiopia imprisoned dissidents and journalists, used food aid as a political tool, appropriated vast sections of land from its citizens and prevented the United Nations from demarcating its border with Eritrea.
For decades, Congress has adopted a hands-off and pusillanimous approach to the N.S.A., appropriating vast sums for its operations — its budget remains classified, but it's reportedly about ten billion dollars a year — and not examining too closely how this money was spent.
Designed in a carefully structured and geometric Italian Renaissance style, the gardens were begun in 1550 by Niccolò di Raffaello de' Pericoli detto Tribolo, who had been commissioned by Eleonora de Toledo, wife of Cosimo I, to create a setting that would be appropriate for vast pageants and Medici court entertainments.
The case has shed light on Russia in the lawless mid-nineties, when a handful of quick-thinking, fast-moving men appropriated a vast chunk of their country's natural wealth at knockdown prices, as the communist state apparatus crumbled.
He defended the set's size as appropriate to the vast environs of the house.
The Roads Minister Robert Goodwill said: "Any speed restrictions to improve air quality would be temporary, only ever considered as part of road improvement work and would not be appropriate for the vast majority of projects started in this Parliament".
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