Sentence examples for appropriations empire from inspiring English sources
Megadollar by megadollar, pressure keeps mounting for a House ethics investigation into the cycling of rich Pentagon contracts and campaign contributions through the appropriations empire ruled by Representative John Murtha.
Indignation about appropriation is a new frontier in the ever-expanding empire of cultivated victimhood: "Marginalized" persons from a particular culture supposedly are somehow wounded when "privileged" people — those who are unvictimized or less victimized — express or even just enjoy the culture of more pure victims without their permission.
In the first study of its kind, Chitwood explores and reinterprets the seminal legal-historical events of the Byzantine Empire under the Macedonian dynasty, including the re-appropriation and refashioning of the Justinianic legal corpus and the founding of a law school in Constantinople.
This project draws on several case studies concerned with multi-directional cultural exchanges in the maritime colonial world: the transfer of prints, the mutual recognition of indigenous Americans and the French, the Spanish empire's treatment of Naples as the "Other Indies," and the English appropriation of Mexican pictures.
The appropriations bill does that.
It's Pentagon appropriations season.
The very idea of collection is generally tantamount to appropriation – in the Prado's case, fine art paid for by gold and silver stolen from Spain's Central and South American empire.
Yet, other appropriations continue.
Appropriations relate to actions in the future.
