Sentence examples for to appropriate everything from inspiring English sources

It is carried out by huge multinationals that wish to appropriate everything for themselves and make this appropriation profitable, calling into question discoveries and developments that belong to humanity and to every individual.

He hoarded power like Scrooge; as no one knew where the mayor's new powers were supposed to start or stop, he appropriated everything.

Skiing has appropriated everything from snowboarding's swagger to its trendy clothing to technology like fat skis.

That is what is truly amazing about the modern system – the way that it appropriates everything with ease.

He concluded that wealthy Paris was dominated by "frauds", and "only the cynics and grovellers can get a place at the banquet... [The rich have] appropriated everything, robbing the other class not just of the sustenance of the body but also the sustenance of the mind".

But he is doing everything he can to appropriate his mentor's popularity.

White people try to appropriate it anyway, because white people annex everything.

In the land where the cloverleaf is the unofficial city flower, nowhere else are the words of E. B. White more appropriate: "Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car". And Monday morning in Los Angeles is when the inbound freeways are the least user friendly.

Of course, it's not going to be appropriate for everything, but small and mid-size businesses should consider bartering.

The questions covered everything from contraception to breast enlargement to appropriate behavior on a date.

At the time I was touring and doing interviews for the graduation speech I put out a few years ago, which was on the subject of kindness, and I was noticing, in myself and in some of the questions I was getting, a certain ego-based New Age stance — that way of thinking that appropriates everything under the rubric "I Am So Right it Just Kills Me".