Sentence examples for simply appropriated from inspiring English sources

Xiao Jincheng, a government researcher in Beijing, says Binhai is considering a different approach from that of Pudong and Shenzhen, where the government simply appropriated land from peasants with little compensation.

She argues that, unlike the pop artists of the 1960s and '70s, who simply appropriated visual symbols from comics and animation, Animamix artists are already completely immersed in their aesthetic.

Constructed almost overnight, much of the land was simply appropriated from traditional Hispanic homesteaders and Native American communities, as well as an elite private boys school that counted Gore Vidal as one of its famous alumni.

Big wage gaps among people who work together (assuming similar experience levels, qualifications, and skills) don't necessarily mean that the highest-paid person is the best one; instead, a gap might mean that he has simply appropriated more of the value created by the whole group.

Here in the Unpatented Zone, Apple never paid Creative $100M for the licensing rights for the interface they seemed to have simply appropriated it wholesale.

Fouquet's belongings, the sculptures, the paintings and the tapestries, were either bought by Louis XIV or simply appropriated.

For the rest, the man with the golden flute follows French predecessors like Jules Mouquet and Paul Taffanel, or, in time-honored virtuoso tradition, simply appropriates pieces of the French repertory that weren't necessarily written for his instrument, like Saint-Saëns's Sonata in A or Debussy's "Clair de Lune".

In 1993, William Morrow published "The Late Show," Ms. Brown's advice book for women over 50, in which she suggests that as women age and the supply of available men dwindles, they should simply appropriate their friends' husbands for jaunty recreational sex.

She wrote another five books, including Having It All (1982 and 1993) and aged 71, The Late Show, which was subtitled A Semi-Wild But Practical Survival Plan for Women Over 50, in which she suggests that as women age and the supply of available men dwindles, they should simply appropriate their friends' husbands for jaunty recreational sex.

From the beginning of their involvement in the region, the authors have sought to support local initiatives rather than simply appropriate local participation in support of external objectives (see (Cooke and Kothari 2001; Ghai and Vivian 1992; Pretty 1995)).

However, in pursuing any such assessment, it is important to note that Austin's exploitation of ordinary language is never driven by simple appeal to whether, in a situation considered as a whole, we would take it to be simply appropriate or inappropriate to use some sentence or other.