Sentence examples for appropriated everything from inspiring English sources

Skiing has appropriated everything from snowboarding's swagger to its trendy clothing to technology like fat skis.

He hoarded power like Scrooge; as no one knew where the mayor's new powers were supposed to start or stop, he appropriated everything.

He concluded that wealthy Paris was dominated by "frauds", and "only the cynics and grovellers can get a place at the banquet... [The rich have] appropriated everything, robbing the other class not just of the sustenance of the body but also the sustenance of the mind".

It is carried out by huge multinationals that wish to appropriate everything for themselves and make this appropriation profitable, calling into question discoveries and developments that belong to humanity and to every individual.

That is what is truly amazing about the modern system – the way that it appropriates everything with ease.

At the time I was touring and doing interviews for the graduation speech I put out a few years ago, which was on the subject of kindness, and I was noticing, in myself and in some of the questions I was getting, a certain ego-based New Age stance — that way of thinking that appropriates everything under the rubric "I Am So Right it Just Kills Me".

It's the perfect persona for an artist who understands that image, built of fragments of appropriated styles, is everything.

The Silk Road Thubron travels is, he reminds us, not one road but a "fretwork " of trade routes dating back to 1500 B.C. Its very name, now appropriated by everyone and everything from Yo-Yo Ma to aromatherapy products, was actually coined by a 19th- century German geo grapher.

To me, she isn't a success story at all: she is a novelty, a tiresome example of white female privilege and the delight white culture finds in white people appropriating any and everything.

The state has appropriated what it can, putting everything under central control, into its own hands.

Many of our public policies are proposed by experts who are comfortable only with correlations that can be measured, appropriated and quantified, and ignore everything else.