Sentence examples for is often misappropriated from inspiring English sources

This statistic is made up, but it is certainly true that OCD, the acronym for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, is often misappropriated as a synonym for orderly, clean or nitpicking.

My general feeling is that laws only add to an overburdened staff and generally only increase budgets, which are often misappropriated toward administrative attestation instead of real security.

In a world where the word all too often is misappropriated, that is greatness.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it, the philosopher George Santayana wrote in a piquant turn of phrase often misappropriated or mangled.

Bismarck's words, "iron and blood" (or "blood and iron", as often attributed), have often been misappropriated as evidence of a German lust for blood and power.

This understanding of human action has often been misappropriated by interpreters who have assumed that when Aquinas says that acts are wrongful by reason of their "undue matter" (indebita materia), he refers to an item of behavior specifiable by its physical characteristics and causal structure.

Identity is largely misappropriated or at most a small component of some percentage of those apps[2].

Punk's wartime ancestor has been tamed; it has been trivialised, and it has been misappropriated.

"One-third of the city is misappropriated," Mr. Lebedev says.

"My money was misappropriated as it was supposed to go into Introcom," said Mr Smallbone.

Money continued to be squandered on endless litigation or was misappropriated.