Sentence examples for wanting to appropriate from inspiring English sources

Appropriating art is not all that different from wanting to appropriate your father's wife or your mother's husband.

I suppose it's part of politicians wanting to appropriate the satire, as a way of making it less harmful to them".

And maybe other people want to appropriate those.

With Disney Hall, Broad again told Gehry that he wanted to appropriate his design.

They want to appropriate the stylishness of graffiti while avoiding its cultural implications.

"You come across people who, for example, want to appropriate public space," says Stokoe.

Racists want to appropriate the English flag of St George, as they appropriated the Union flag for a time, decades ago.

State Senator Kenneth W. Stolle, a Republican, said he wanted to appropriate enough money to keep the program going for at least two years.

But technology is not only for those who know how to use it; it's also for those who want to appropriate it.

Those are decisions that each individual campaign makes "on how they want to appropriate allocate resources, so I'll let them speak to that," Mr. Strawn said.

I don't want to appropriate our child's voice, but I want to speak up for her, and her older brother, and I want to acknowledge their feelings.