Sentence examples for attempted to appropriate from inspiring English sources

"Our adversaries over the way attempted to appropriate it, but I insisted," he told a crowd of admirers in Washington, "that we fairly captured it".

Informed by current debates on neo-liberal urban strategies in North American and European cities, the paper explores how these urban strategies were articulated by elite actors, who attempted to appropriate the European Capital of Culture event to support their growth plans for the city, and the docklands in particular.

In more recent times, some of the key thinkers involved in the Islamic Revolution of 1979, such as Ayatollah Khomeini and Mortaza Motahhari, were profoundly influenced by the thought of Mulla Sadra, and some have even attempted to appropriate Mulla Sadra as the 'philosopher of the Revolution' despite the distinct lack of an engagement with political philosophy in his work.

I had heard that our adversaries over the way had attempted to appropriate it.

In many other places that have clumsily attempted to appropriate bits of the Italian repertoire without understanding them, arancini are tough, dense golf balls waiting to land with a thud in the depths of your disappointed stomach.

Such a full and intense life could not but be accompanied by rumor, adulation, denigration, and an endless stream of publications: press articles, pamphlets, hagiographies, attempts to appropriate Garibaldi's celebrity to this or that cause, to turn his adventures into myth and money.

The insurance case becomes urgently resonant when an anti-slavery activist, Frederick Ashton, attempts to appropriate it to prove under the law that "the Negroes thrown overboard" were not "property and nothing else", but men and women, and therefore the victims of murder.

"You do get people putting things on their house or on their roof or in their garden," says Stokoe, "and if neighbours can see that when they look out of their homes, some will attempt to appropriate the view, as well.

These latter brands are attempting to appropriate a sense of heritage into an otherwise identical product suite.

The erotic charge of the self is not primarily sexual nor narrowly maternal, but is the energy and drive that oppressive systems attempt to appropriate and that creative, life-giving social practices regenerate.

Morocco is also promoting camel husbandry in the part of Western Sahara under its control while attempting to appropriate the camel as a symbol at a sub-national (i.e. ethnic, tribal) level, thus proposing that Sahrawi nomadic heritage is part of Moroccan national heritage (Martin-Márquez [2006]; Julien [2004]).