Sentence examples for could be misappropriated from inspiring English sources

However, he said it is "impossible for any automaker to control indirect or illegal channels through which our vehicles could be misappropriated, stolen or re-sold by independent third parties".

And with symbolic panache, he ordered it to re-convene on a sacred holiday — the Fourth of July — as if to recapture the ideals of independence and revolution for the North before they could be misappropriated by the South.

In a letter to the academy, Dr. Ronald Atlas, president of the American Society for Microbiology, wrote, "We are now being asked to allow authors to withhold critical information because of concern that significant data could be misappropriated or abused".

A consumer who uses a consolidator, especially, is trusting the company -- and the Internet at large -- with an extraordinary amount of sensitive personal information that could be misappropriated by a rogue employee, a hacker or a con artist.

Indeed, although identifying a noninvasive diagnostic test for endometriosis is an explicit priority in endometriosis research, other authors have cautioned that such a tool could be misappropriated as a population screening tool for a disease that may not fit a population screening model (37).

He is not worried about teaching young people techniques that could potentially be misappropriated.

The seats were all pointed at an old school gym apparatus, which could easily be misappropriated for mass hangings.

"The worst part is that Escobar was left in charge of a cash cow that could easily be misappropriated given (his programs) unclear methodology in prioritizing actions and resource allocation".

Declaring Scarsdale a gun-free zone could send a message to neighboring communities and beyond, and begin to limit the risk that guns will be misappropriated by disturbed gunmen like Adam Lanza.

And, most importantly, how they can be misappropriated to actively harass.

The flip side of that same coin is that everything can also be misappropriated for selfish uses.