Sentence examples for being appropriated as from inspiring English sources

Salish work did not lend itself to being appropriated as a public symbol of the growing metropolis of Seattle in the early 20th century.

Mr MacGregor said that it was the museum's duty to preserve the universality of the marbles, and to protect them from being appropriated as a nationalistic political symbol.

Affluent, well-educated black people were being appropriated as symbols of racial progress — and held up as proof that racism no longer mattered — back when Mr. Obama was still a youth in short pants.

The idea of the V mask being appropriated as a political symbol is inherently ridiculous, he suggests.

Meanwhile, fashwave fans have cast aside punk, folk, and metal music traditions with long histories of being appropriated as vehicles for far-right ideology as relics.

That is certainly the case with Pepe, who began life as a peaceable cartoon frog-bro who smoked dope and played video games, before being appropriated as a symbol of neo-Nazi hate — and ending up at the center of a U.S. election.

I most certainly consider the adoption of the bicycle by women as detrimental to the advancement of morality...".. Just as the bike stands in some places in the world today as an example of women's oppression, it is also being appropriated as an agent of insurrection among some working to advance women's rights.

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