Sentence examples for misappropriations from inspiring English sources

Taxes were efficiently collected, accounts audited, misappropriations tracked down, public expenses pruned, and city spectacles and municipal services cut down thus alienating rich and poor alike both in the provinces and in the capital.

Awkward misappropriations of popular culture are legion in politics, particularly among Republicans.

"We created the library to prevent misappropriations, not to support misappropriations," Gupta said.

Echoing accusations by Los Angeles district attorney's investigators, the audit found that Robert Rizzo, Bell's former chief administrator, "had total control and discretion over how city funds were spent," and oversaw the most egregious misappropriations of funds in a city where working-class families often rely on city and state services.

Made this summer, before the start of Occupy Wall Street, the recurring presence of Gordon Gekko gives this show about misappropriations of voice (and power) a sinister, oddly prescient subtext.

Ms. Nasar's complaint says that instead she spent $174,000 of her own money and when the accounting firm KPMG audited the endowment they found that Columbia's "misappropriations and defaults" totaled as much as $4.5 million.

It allegedly involves the misappropriation of one-third of the city's $1.2 billion social-security fund.

The bill might not now save Mr Previti, but it could help Mr Berlusconi in his latest case, on charges of tax evasion and misappropriation of funds.

But since the money was intended for FIFA, the prosecutor investigated the individuals pocketing it for criminal mismanagement and misappropriation.

Their letter also alleged that Mr Muller-Moore's "misappropriation of Chick-fil-A's EAT MOR CHIKIN intellectual property…is likely to cause confusion".In this section Fashion forward Golden fleeces Guides through the swamp Prometheus unsound Shut your kale-hole Strong deliverer From lumps to lager Asian innovation ReprintsReally?

Writing of one rural development programme, the report cites "leakages, misappropriation of funds, violation of programme guidelines, selection of the non-poor as a target group, absence of proper maintenance of accounts and poor quality of assets".