Sentence examples for was appropriated by from inspiring English sources

The northeast end of the garden was appropriated by the mosque next door.

The term was appropriated by Capitol Hill, before spreading insidiously across the globe.

But he became most fashionable when he was appropriated by Zappa and Ginsberg.

Churchill himself was appropriated by both sides of the Brexit debate.

The money for the vouchers was appropriated by Congress last year.

In the United States, the anticolonial Tea Party was appropriated by those who wanted to turn back the clock.

He was appropriated by a wide variety of readers, often with conflicting agendas — free marketeers, positivists, Indian and Japanese nationalists.

And until it was appropriated by US right-wingers, it was my favourite symbol of American patriotism.

Whatever happened to shame?" If he didn't glamorise the junkie lifestyle, his aesthetic was appropriated by those who did.

But it was appropriated by vile people, and now virtually everyone sees racial hatred in that one too.

Such notions were appropriated by unsavoury political operators.