Michael Irwin's The Skull and the Nightingale (HarperCollins) is a bold and witty appropriation of the conventions, style, and idiom of the 18th-century epistolary novel that brilliantly recreates the manners, modes of thought and conduct of the teeming world of London.
My approach to feminism is encapsulated by this appropriation of John Stuart Mill: Over herself, the individual is sovereign.
Critics have accused her of cultural appropriation – or simply making a fool of herself – but the singer claimed people are "overthinking" a sequence into which she put little thought.
"It would be a complete desecration of the entire artistic ethos of the undercroft, of the appropriation and reinterpretation of space.
Certain racial aspects of her latest incarnation, such as using black female dancers as anonymous on-stage props, go beyond pop's usual magpie approach to appropriation into uncomfortable territory.
However, it's fair to say that the recent saturation of twerking in our collective consciousness is largely Cyrus' fault (of which much has been written, including a number of excellent analyses of the cultural appropriation involved in her new identity).
This amounts to a "blatant appropriation of property," according to Derk Sauer, a Dutch investor who founded Vedomosti in 1999.
"We will never again allow the appropriation of any part of Georgia by bandits, narcotics dealers and local feudal lords".
Though Hizbullah takes credit for throwing Israel out of Lebanon, the repercussions of Israeli occupation still continue, he argues, in the refugees, the infringement of airspace, the appropriation of water resources, the retention of detainees and an Israeli presence in the sliver of land known as the Shebaa Farms.
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.
Who owns the farmland, and what rights do peasants have if it is requisitioned Tens of thousands of disputes arise in China every year over the appropriation of farmland, many of them violent.
