Sentence examples for they have appropriated from inspiring English sources

I am also deeply hurt by the manner in which they have appropriated, then denigrated, my work".

She and her boyfriend rent an apartment a block from Interstate 980 in Oakland, Calif., next to an abandoned lot that they have appropriated as a garden.

Since the beginning of this century, they have appropriated most of the profits from oil and gas activity by means of contracts that are ever less profitable for the oil multinationals.

We are on the ground fighting .The fighters keep their patches of the streets clean but have also graffitied the names of their various brigades over the schools, mosques, houses and hairdressing salons they have appropriated as bases.

They have appropriated the Republican charge from last year that Democrats were working on a liberal policy agenda instead of on job creation and the economy, and turned it on its head.

As with the too-cute-by-half "Pied Pipers" allusions and similar in-jokes, Mr. Ahonen seems to forget that a world exists beyond the visceral Amoralists and the pulpy genre they have appropriated.

Some of his subordinates hurriedly sent back some of the things they had appropriated.

"They've appropriated the foundation of my entire philosophy," is how he put it.

Indeed, they had appropriated Khamenei's image and succeeded in selling it to most of his opponents.

Sapiens would disappear in the foreseeable future either because they had appropriated such mind-making powers as to become unrecognisable or because they had destroyed themselves through environmental catastrophe.

They've appropriated our rhetoric, but that's about it.