Sentence examples for had been appropriating from inspiring English sources

The friendship cooled in 2008, amid a controversy over Ms. Quinn's disclosure that the Council had been appropriating millions in taxpayer dollars to fictitious organizations.

This was the first time that kind of technique had been appropriated".

It's a rental contract for his own home, which had been appropriated by the state.

(The names of Uranus's children, the Titans, already had been appropriated for Saturn's moons).

Artists have been appropriating images from Madison Avenue for decades.

Westminster has been appropriating powers since at least the second world war.

But then, video games have been appropriating elements of the Super Mario series for many years.

So hot that lately outsiders have been appropriating the look.

"Because the word has been appropriated by men".

As studio marketers have become more aggressive, all the freshness has been appropriated by the campaign.

Of course, this is not the first time that Native American iconography has been appropriated.