Sentence examples for appropriating them for from inspiring English sources

The writer is taking events that belong to several people, appropriating them for himself, and turning them into something that feels alien to those who have lived them.

Artists are taking the visible signs of economic downturn and appropriating them for creative ends, with empty shops often becoming home to pop-up exhibitions.

Our son Dexter, who just turned 5, has appropriated them for his private food-filing system.

Arab dictators also sometimes gravitated to Shakespeare's works because they could appropriate them for anti-Semitic purposes.

He began by rebelling against his father's high art ideals, and then appropriated them for his own aims.

The true owner of their works is the public, which will appropriate them for its own concerns regardless of the critic.

Henry then appropriated them for his tomb – but they were again unused and were lost until 2008, when it was discovered that two of them were on the gate posts of a country house in Northamptonshire.

Al-Ghazâlî adopted these teachings and appropriated them for his own purposes (Treiger 2012).

Along the way he has absorbed various cultural traditions even while using his New York perspective to appropriate them for his own sophisticated designs.

In December, they were approved and money was appropriated for them; they were named and Impero.

In December, they were approved and money was appropriated for them; they were named Roma and ("Empire").