Sentence examples for misappropriate from inspiring English sources

The decision validated "misappropriation theory," which holds that outsiders are guilty of securities fraud when they misappropriate confidential information "in breach of a duty owed to the source of the information".

Another cable, which prompted Ecuador to expel the US ambassador to the country, accused Ecuador's commander of police of using his position "to extort cash and property, misappropriate public funds, facilitate human trafficking, and obstruct the investigation and prosecution of corrupt colleagues", concluding that "corruption among Ecuadorian national police officers is widespread and well-known".

By the same token, outsiders have a duty not to misappropriate such information.

Breaking news goes from being unknown to widely known so quickly that there is no longer any chance to misappropriate its value.

To his detractors, Mr Sherman is a shameless copy-cat who seeks to misappropriate the hard-won intellectual property of research-oriented drug companies.

Not for nothing has Warren Buffett, Omaha's celebrated investor, named his corporate jet "The Indefensible".The usual explanation for the perk is that it is a (rather enjoyable) way for corporate insiders to misappropriate shareholders' money.

They were wrongly accused of misappropriating union funds for their personal use.

"That inquiry – conducted by two former judges and a senior accountant – found that Jack Warner had committed fraud and misappropriated the funds – in other words he had stolen the money from Concacaf … We asked Concacaf to give our money back because it wasn't used for the purpose we intended, and were advised by Fifa to wait until the inquiries were complete".

"If there were going to be allegations as to whether community money had gone astray and been misappropriated, then the appropriate time to look at that is after the AFP has done what it is going to do," Reid said.

Mr Crosby, who was in charge of 59 state-run prisons with around 89,000 inmates (plus another 70 or so smaller detention places), had become the subject of federal and state investigations alleging that he misappropriated state funds and property and was involved in steroid trafficking.To clean up the mess, Mr Bush hired James McDonough as the new FDC head and gave him a free hand.

Normally, when an investor makes money through advance knowledge of a takeover bid, the courts consider the profits to have been misappropriated from the bidder, since the investor's buying will have pushed up the price of the target.