Sentence examples for misappropriated for from inspiring English sources

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Overview of Lesson Plan: In this lesson, students describe how inventions can influence society, especially if misappropriated for unintended purposes.

Some Republicans had objected to the creation of a new $50 billion fund; Mr. Shelby, for instance, repeatedly derided as a "honey pot" that might get misappropriated for other purposes.

When Rank discovers, decades later, that his juvenile malfeasance has been misappropriated for a novel by his bookish college buddy, Adam, Rank goes after him with "enthusiastic umbrage," pummeling his e-mail in-box with a barrage of bumptious letters seeking to correct the record.

The seats were all pointed at an old school gym apparatus, which could easily be misappropriated for mass hangings.

The flip side of that same coin is that everything can also be misappropriated for selfish uses.

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He also said Mr. Dennis had misappropriated funds meant for Mr. Hall and the other fugitives.

At its most nefarious, this meant the US Department of Justice alleging the former Concacaf president Jack Warner had misappropriated funds meant for Haiti earthquake victims.

"Having failed to reach an agreement or otherwise pay for the footage they used," the tennis association said, Baird and Major "simply misappropriated" the footage "for their commercial advantage without regard to the U.S.T.A.'s rights".

While Wilson was channeling cash to the "refugees" of Afghanistan, my father was warning Muhammad Ali through the Afghan Association of Freedom Fighters U.S.A. to oversee where funds were directed, which he clearly believed to be misappropriated and diverted for the personal interests of American Afghans and the militant fighters whom he later strongly opposed and fought against in the mid-1980s.

Katherine Heigl is suing New York drugstore chain Duane Reade to the tune of $6 million -- all over a tweet she claims misappropriated her image for commercial purposes without her consent. .

He not only abandoned his post as governor (no one knew where he was), but misappropriated state monies for his own personal use.

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