Sentence examples for be able to appropriate from inspiring English sources

But the single best footwear belongs to Nancy Sinatra, who wasn't going to be able to appropriate Lee Hazlewood's country song "These Boots Are Made for Walkin' " until her father, Frank, said she could.

Entrepreneurs and businesspersons are not equal in their ability to have access to, be able to locate, or be able to appropriate all available information.

I am of the opinion that that the prosumer ought to be able to appropriate items from the Internet for personal artistic expression.

Firms must be able to appropriate enough of the economic returns from the technology to justify their investment (Chapter 3).

Von Bechtolsheim's plans hinged on being able to appropriate the space.

Firms are able to appropriate only a fraction of the knowledge they produce, which then spills over into the system.

Neither of these characters are African-American, but many hip-hop gangsta figures have been able to appropriate their imagery and make it specific to their own circumstances.

In the "Arab spring" it was street protesters, and not the regime, who were able to appropriate the symbols and language of national revival.

Racism is rarely about the reality of the other; the Reclaim protestors, without irony or self-reflection, were able to appropriate the Indigenous flag in their cry to reclaim Australia.

Through the willful perversion of shared history, whites have been able to appropriate the victimhood of minorities and, in an audacious reversal, insist that an obvious thing isn't real — otherwise known as gaslighting.

CALI SWAG DISTRICT Southern California has become such a hub for dance-rap (thanks to jerking, last year's movement) that now the region has been able to appropriate other cities' styles for itself.