Sentence examples for as appropriations from inspiring English sources

"I'm a mean, miserable S.O.B.," he once proclaimed as appropriations chairman.

His predecessor as appropriations chairman, Senator Robert C. Byrd, 91, Democrat of West Virginia, is enfeebled by age.

Lately, that reputation has soured, as appropriations dons like Senator Robert C. Byrd, Democrat of West Virginia, and former Senator Ted Stevens, Republican of Alaska, became symbols for waste or corruption.

At 8 30 a.m. the next day, Mr. Leahy's staff was presented with Mr. Reid's new lineup: Mr. Leahy would take Mr. Inouye's position as Appropriations chief, Senator Dianne Feinstein of California would take over Judiciary, and Senator Barbara A. Mikulski would take Ms. Feinstein's chairmanship of the Intelligence Committee.

Answer: Every year, Congress has to approve laws, known as appropriations, that provide money for federal agencies.

Several influential committee chairs were among the attendees, such as Appropriations Chairman Harold Rogers (R-Ky ., EneR-Ky .d CommEnergy and CommerceUpton (R-MiChairmand Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich).. Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C)., who has been tasked with leading the select committee on Benghazi, was also present.

In a curious twist on the Shields case, Richard Prince, a pioneer of what is known as appropriation art — photographing other people's photographs and enlarging them for exhibition — appropriated the most revealing of Mr. Gross's bathtub shots of Ms. Shields.

Now it could easily be seen as appropriation.

It suggests an early enthusiasm for the practice of creating a new work of art by quoting a pre-existing image, a technique that dominated art and the art world in the 1980s and is often referred to as appropriation.

Bieber's locked hair, while traditionally connected the spiritual and political identities of people of color, could be viewed as appropriation, but in his case, perhaps a faith-based rationale will later emerge.

The firm also has its eye on the Moon, however, and seems, according to plans it has submitted to NASA, to think $12 billion will be enough to put a base there by the 2020s.Presumably a Moon base would not, of itself, count as appropriation.