Sentence examples similar to figure appropriation from inspiring English sources

For more insight into this world of fakes, The Creators Project spoke to Karl Baxter, a wholesaler who happened upon a stash of terrible bootlegs, and the pop artist The Sucklord, maker of Star Wars action figure "appropriations".

The National Science Foundation, Mr. Grossman said, started in 1950 with a six-figure appropriation; its fiscal year 2009 appropriation was nearly $6.5 billion.

Figure 5. Appropriations (Yuan) for preschool education per child in three tiers.

To figure out how cultural appropriation works in a day when the playing field is different—I'm not going to say "equal"—I reached out to a guy who is much smarter than me.

We calculated for each university a per-student dollar figure based on state appropriations reported to the federal government for the 2007-08 fiscal year.

This week, we see him featured prominently in a debate among adults on the historical figure and subsequent cultural appropriations involved in the evolution of the mythology.

"Something that bothers me now is the appropriation of the figure of Che that has been used to make enemies from different classes.

The appropriation matched the figure called for in a report by the accounting office in May 1998 that also said that an additional $1.2 billion was needed for the construction of new facilities.

But Congress didn't come close to that figure in its final 2012 appropriation, instead giving NSF a 2.5% increase over its 2011 budget, to $7.03 billion.

Last month, during Couture Fashion Week in Paris, Zuhair Murad became the latest fashion figure to be accused of cultural appropriation.

Kilwardby explains that in first-figure mixed necessity-assertoric syllogisms the necessity premise appropriates to itself a minor which is necessary per se; no such appropriation occurs in first-figure mixed assertoric-necessity syllogisms.