Sentence examples for seeking to appropriate from inspiring English sources

Mr. Fu's most recent rescue was Li Jun, a Chongqing property developer who says he was tortured by officials seeking to appropriate his business.

Another way of viewing the motorsport battle, and the earlier occupation of Pearl Roundabout in Bahrain, is as a contest over public space – with aggrieved citizens seeking to appropriate it.

In seeking to appropriate the swagger and lawlessness of the blogosphere under the imprimatur of the so-called mainstream media, the broadcast news organizations may increase the chances of letting out information early on the Web — projected winners drawn from exit poll data, for example — that they have pledged to keep off the air on their main television outlets.

So it is no wonder, with the European championships under way, that Adidas and Puma, the two longtime rivals, are seeking to appropriate ultimate soccer glory in the shape of 1970's-style warm-up jackets.

Some said he was seeking to appropriate freshwater sources to sell abroad, others that he was a CIA spy, still others that he wanted to set up a new Jewish state.

When the Communist Party took power it sought to appropriate at least the scientific side of the equation.

For this view too seeks to appropriate the strengths of both deontology and consequentialism, not by embracing both, but by showing that an appropriately defined version of one can do for both.

His Government, on a mandate to dramatically increase funding in key areas, sought to appropriate further finances from the Federal Government.

Some debated the need for change, for racial, religious, sexual orientation and gender equality even as they sought to appropriate for their selective claims the US Constitution and/or Declaration of Independence.

Often during municipal, state or federal political campaigns, various parties seek to appropriate one or more excerpts from Martin's speeches or writings in support of their immediate political objective.

The nationalist right in Hungary has sought to appropriate Nagy as an anti-communist figurehead.