Sentence examples for personal appropriation from inspiring English sources

At first, international agencies such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, as well as Mobutu's allies in the West, turned a blind eye to his personal appropriation of the economy and the associated declines in productivity and exports.

Secondly, even if speculative philosophy could deliver what it promises, it would have forgotten that the highest human task is not cognition but rather the personal appropriation or embodiment of whatever insights into the good and the right one is able to achieve.

According to the following statement from the nonbinding ICC Elements of Crimes: 'As indicated by the use of the term "private or personal use", appropriations justified by military necessity cannot constitute the crime of pillaging' ICC [2010].

Perhaps the most accurate definition holds that racism refers to "patterns of discrimination that are institutionalized as 'normal' throughout an entire culture". In that it belittles a culture while using it for personal gain, cultural appropriation indirectly expresses racial superiority.

It feels personal, like bitching about appropriation with your best friend or getting a hug from your chosen family.

This Joycean "agenbite of inwit" elicits our sympathy, but there is something chilling in the appropriation of her personal grief for scholarly illustration.

Since then, accusations of racism against Azalea have persisted, but focused more on Azalea's insensitivity to the complexities of race relations and cultural appropriation than any personal and wilful bigotry on the rapper's part.

By pamphlet and personal appeal Emma secured an appropriation from the Pennsylvania legislature and a gift of land from a Philadelphia philanthropist, and in February 1892 the sisters opened the Pennsylvania Home for the Training in Speech of Deaf Children Before They Are of School Age, more simply known as the Bala Home for its nearness to that Philadelphia suburb.

It held that "no mere personal assault or trespass or appropriation operates to reduce the individual to a condition of slavery".

Certainly let's strengthen the laws and protections of everyone to allow them the privacy of their personal lives without interference or appropriation from sleazy thugs.

All these appropriations, whether cheaply personal or densely ideological, whether seen as exalting or denigrating, have contributed to the conversion of Anne Frank into usable goods.