Sentence examples for he appropriated from from inspiring English sources
Most significant, the reformer mantle that he appropriated from Mr. McCain after the senator's stunning triumph in New Hampshire seems to have paid off.
A less naked, and more inspired, bit of plagiarism was his trope "You have the power to take our country back!" This he appropriated from the vituperatively anti-Dean "Take Back Vermont" movement, which began in 2000 as a reaction to his signing of the civil-unions bill, which established previously denied rights — hospital visitation, health insurance, inheritance — for gay and lesbian couples.
Few survivors, Ms. Coverdale included, had much use for the notion of closure, but at least, many said, there would be no more stinging McVeigh quotes about "collateral damage" -- the term he appropriated from his military service to describe the children he killed.
On his desk in the elegant wood-paneled study he appropriated from the Iraqi dictator, Mr. Bremer planted a hand-carved motto: "Success has a thousand fathers," an admonition for teamwork and an implicit rejection of the second line of the aphorism that failure is an orphan.
"He appropriated from others.
He garrisoned Valletta and among the wealth he appropriated from the island was the entire property of the Roman Catholic Church in the island.
His videos, paintings, photographs and assemblages -- which he appropriates from existing imagery -- provoke laughter, puzzlement and admiration, often all at once.
They are illustrations of what he calls "the tipping point," a term that he appropriates from the highly rational language of medical science, and that he defines as the "one dramatic moment in an epidemic when everything can change all at once".
More artists are reaching out to him to ask for remixes than ever before, and Gillis wholeheartedly believes that what he's doing doesn't hurt the sales of the artists he appropriates from.
The pictures in his second solo show combine images he's appropriated from the Internet or TV with images he's photographed.
Just as he has been appropriated, so he appropriated ideas from everyone else.
