Sentence examples for appropriation at from inspiring English sources

The press claimed it was cultural appropriation at its worst.

Cultural appropriation at its best, steals, reduces, overuses and then disposes of words like so much bathwater.

Bought by the British government in 1816, the Elgin Marbles have come, in some eyes, to epitomise imperial appropriation at its worst.

"What I saw in Cyrus's performance was not just a clueless, insensitive attempt to assert her sexuality or a simple act of cultural appropriation at the expense of black bodies," wrote blogger and PhD sociology student Tressie McMillan Cottom.

The bill would place the appropriation at the disposal of the surgeon general of the Public Health Service to "make grants-in-aid to schools, hospitals, laboratories and other institutions and to scientific investigators, whose work has shown promise of making valuable contributions to human knowledge with respect to the cause, diagnosis, control, treatment or prevention of cancer".

Criticism of his own "venture capitalist imperialist ass" is familiar: he's had beef with critics such as the New York Times's Jon Caramanica, who questioned the element of "cultural appropriation" at work in an early Major Lazer show, and earlier this year Diplo debated these issues with Sierra Leonean-US writer and "cultural activist" Chief Boima.

Finally, under Muslim Brotherhood rule, stating that your religion is your own business is a radical form of re-appropriation at a time when Islamists are posing as the sole gatekeepers of what it is to be a "good Muslim," "a good Christian," etc. Taking the liberty of masking your religion is, de facto, a way of challenging this imposture and discarding the threat of being called an infidel.

If the Legislature agrees to continue appropriations at last year's levels, the state would not shut down as did the federal government in 1995-96.

"The labs are very competitive with each other, and this outburst is typical lab belly-aching that is sometimes aimed at jockeying for appropriations at the expense of each other," he said.

Using panel data on state appropriations at hundreds of public institutions between 1976 and 1996, a study by the economist Brad Humphreys estimates that institutions that joined Division I-A gained $6 million in appropriations on average, compared to institutions with no change in division status.

Instead, appropriators will zero out ITER spending until DOE comes up with reliable numbers, said Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), chair of the Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, at a hearing today.