Sentence examples for appropriated himself from inspiring English sources

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Taking a more modern and less expensive tack, he's appropriated himself.

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If, as charged, Mr. Marshall appropriated for himself money and art that was intended for New York institutions, his mother would think even the indignity of the trial was worth it, said Ms. Kiernan.

A London chronicler observed simply: "Simon de Montfort appropriated for himself the earldom of Chester".

His opponents could offer no alternative policy that was either plausible or believable since the one they favored was one they had designed but which the president had appropriated for himself".

Charrière was accused of inventing many of the adventures in Papillon and appropriating to himself the adventures of others.

"At certain moments," Fitzgerald wrote in his notes for "The Last Tycoon," "one man appropriates to himself the total significance of a time and place".

After 11 days of debate, a jury in New York agreed with the prosecution that he took advantage of her after she developed Alzheimer's disease from 2000, forcing her to change her will without her conscious understanding, so as to appropriate for himself her $185m £115mm) fortune.

But the guest did not rise; instead, he continued to sit in his place and even stretched out his hand and poured more ice water with lemon and mint leaves into the glass that had been Aryeh Zelnik's until he had appropriated it for himself.

Churchill himself was appropriated by both sides of the Brexit debate.

Mr. Closky has created 10,000 short, silent, animated loops, some made by himself, some appropriated from the Web and none lasting longer than about five seconds.

The next day, John sees Mr. Noerdlinger, naked, urinating in the ocean, "appropriating it for himself".

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