Sentence examples for be appropriated as from inspiring English sources

To countless people, "wifebeater" is not just a word, and cannot be appropriated as gays have done with "queer".

With so many artists picking up brushes or at least a pencil, is the idea that real things can be appropriated as art bankrupt?

Her subsequent cultivation of a rightwing defence of secularism is based on the realisation that the supposedly universal values of the republic can be appropriated as a productive front in the struggle for national identity.

But if the State Supreme Court were to agree with the district judge and find that arrangement unconstitutional, money for vouchers would have to be appropriated as a separate line item  each year, with all of the political complications, year-to-year uncertainty and budget squabbling that would entail.

What about the people who don't want their lives to be appropriated as digital windowdressing?

Findings in the discussion and further reflection generated by the application of the four tools that encompasses the model within the companies, proved to be appropriated as a reflective practice and also a continuing learning process for SMEs.

In Banda Aceh, what little wreckage remains has been appropriated as something for curious sightseers.

But in December 2005 it was appropriated as the "Cronulla Cape" to be worn while attacking the Lebanese.

Jesus has three cockerels on its official crest, so this sculpture has been appropriated as a heraldic symbol.

Of course, the visage of the chief was appropriated as a hood ornament.

was appropriated as a patriotic anthem, but precisely because some serious people do pay attention to the lyrics.