The phrase "appropriation by" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the taking of something by an individual, group, or organization. For example, "The mayor's appropriation by force of the city's finances was met with public outrage."
Appropriation by foliage is a common land-grab technique.
Its appropriation by black youth transformed it into a positive appellation, argued Ice Cube.
They fought, for example, the appropriation by security staff of food and clothing meant for prisoners.
This renders him open to appropriation by different interests, some progressive, some retrograde.
Both have proved emancipating and beneficial and both have been prone to abuse and appropriation by special interests.
Sonatrach blamed the Spanish for delays and cost overruns, described as an "industrial fiasco"; the Spanish firms called it an illegitimate appropriation by the state.
The Creature might, more suggestively, ask how she feels about having created a myth that is peculiarly susceptible to appropriation by both radical and conservative forces.
And Barbour, holder of three Royal warrants, prefers to advertise its appropriation by young fashionable types rather than play up its heritage appeal.
The treaty holds that no "celestial body" is subject to "national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means".
The United States has delayed food aid to North Korea, citing the lapses of monitoring and the absence of a budget appropriation by Congress.
In the words of the art historian Bogumil Jewsiewicki, "The West resists appropriation by other cultures; it has never agreed that cultural exchange goes in both directions".
