Sentence examples for appropriated over from inspiring English sources
Last year, Congress, at the behest of the Obama regime appropriated over $20 million for the relocation of Hamas supporters from Palestine to America.
Based on interviews with many budget players over the last 10 days, this: The White House wants to hold the total payout to New York to $20 billion or less, appropriated over time, perhaps years.
But its draft of the Farm Bill, which sets food and agricultural policy and funding, is less generous: The $348 million of research appropriated over 5 years by the 2008 Farm Bill would be cut to $200 million in the new legislation.
The lyric poem known as "Golden Slumbers," from Dekker, Chettle and Haughton's 1603 play Patient Grissil, has been repeatedly appropriated over the past four hundred years, becoming at various points an "anonymous, traditional" folk song, a Beatles hit, a nursery rhyme, a minor Elizabethan anthology piece attributed to an established author, and a piece of gnomic folk wisdom.
Congress has appropriated over $500 billion, and we are spending an average of $245 million a day in Iraq.
On a financial level, we are facing a crippling depression not seen since the 1930s, yet in fiscal year 2011, we had appropriated over $400 billion for war contractors to do the work our servicemen could.
A few inventions are a bit of both, thought up long ago and then re-appropriated over time: the first vending machine was used as an instant dispenser of holy water, not Diet Coke.
During the 2012 budget talks in Colorado, a proposal was floated to re-appropriate over $5m from private prisons to support child literacy and other programs to help the needy and disabled.
The U.S. Congress, which appropriates over $1 billion annually for the Global Fund, ought to look into this.
On Friday, the House passed a bill, already passed through the Senate, that appropriates over $15 billion for hurricane relief and stops the country from defaulting on its debts and keeps the government running at current funding levels until December.
Somewhere around 1953, co-opt assumed a new meaning, to appropriate, take over, assimilate (Online Etymology Dictionary, http://www.etymonline.com).com
