Sentence examples for are often misappropriated from inspiring English sources

My general feeling is that laws only add to an overburdened staff and generally only increase budgets, which are often misappropriated toward administrative attestation instead of real security.

This statistic is made up, but it is certainly true that OCD, the acronym for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, is often misappropriated as a synonym for orderly, clean or nitpicking.

In those e-mail messages, recipients are often asked to help Nigerian "dignitaries" regain large sums of money that have been misappropriated by the government.

Even when African Americans clearly do well for the community, credit is often muted or even misappropriated by white people.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it, the philosopher George Santayana wrote in a piquant turn of phrase often misappropriated or mangled.

In a world where the word all too often is misappropriated, that is greatness.

Bismarck's words, "iron and blood" (or "blood and iron", as often attributed), have often been misappropriated as evidence of a German lust for blood and power.

This understanding of human action has often been misappropriated by interpreters who have assumed that when Aquinas says that acts are wrongful by reason of their "undue matter" (indebita materia), he refers to an item of behavior specifiable by its physical characteristics and causal structure.

This is a direct, unavoidable consequence of the tools; they're not being "abused" or "misappropriated".

When narcotics are misappropriated, the person implicated is usually a physician".

Punk's wartime ancestor has been tamed; it has been trivialised, and it has been misappropriated.