Sentence examples for appropriated as from inspiring English sources

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After the Castro revolution, the house could have been appropriated, as was the case with other US property in Cuba, but instead the Cuban government approached Mary to request the house as a gift, to be used as a monument to Hemingway.

Those Confucian philosophers whose writings had been most enthusiastic about Japan, and so easily appropriated as was the case with Yamaga Sokô who had argued at one point in his multifaceted philosophical corpus, that Japan, not China, was the true Central Kingdom — have consequently suffered from significant neglect in the postwar period.

The actor is not the first person to have his name appropriated as a verb.Mr.

Of course, the visage of the chief was appropriated as a hood ornament.

In Banda Aceh, what little wreckage remains has been appropriated as something for curious sightseers.

While territory may be defensively occupied, it cannot be unilaterally appropriated as the country's own sovereign territory.

But in December 2005 it was appropriated as the "Cronulla Cape" to be worn while attacking the Lebanese.

was appropriated as a patriotic anthem, but precisely because some serious people do pay attention to the lyrics.

Jesus has three cockerels on its official crest, so this sculpture has been appropriated as a heraldic symbol.

To countless people, "wifebeater" is not just a word, and cannot be appropriated as gays have done with "queer".

Salish work did not lend itself to being appropriated as a public symbol of the growing metropolis of Seattle in the early 20th century.

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