Sentence examples for to arrogate from inspiring English sources

It is a heretical act of arrogance to arrogate divinity for oneself or to claim multiple incarnations.

For Man to arrogate that power, goes this argument, is an act of terrible blasphemy.

But in practice they often work at cross-purposes or intrigue as clerical careerists to arrogate power to themselves.

Perishable, it attempts to arrogate to itself the prerogative of imperishable time, of separating good books from bad".

They are not to arrogate to themselves the choices made by the Justice Department and honored over the years.

Insofar as either side presumes to arrogate unto itself all right and virtue, it should be opposed.

It is improper for this Court to arrogate to itself the power to adjust a balance settled by the explicit terms of the Constitution.

I mean the larger craziness of allowing politicians to arrogate to themselves the right to name every large public work, new or old, after other politicians.

She ruled that it did not — that rescinding an approved permit was, in fact, a "stunning power for an agency to arrogate to itself".

Judge Jackson said the action was "a stunning power for an agency to arrogate to itself" that the law did not support.

That authority was a check on the power of the Police Department, which, in the words of one former department official, "tends to arrogate power to itself".