During the cold war the very word "peace" was misappropriated by both contesting sides.
Federal and state authorities said between $15 million and $20 million was misappropriated by officials at Hyfin since 1982.
Without identifying them by name, the criminal complaint cites seven people whose money, prosecutors say, was misappropriated by Mr. Starr.
Keane are not the first band to complain about their music being misappropriated by a political party.
We think it desirable to prevent one man's property being misappropriated by another, and so we make larceny a crime.
To Gould's fury, as a loyal child of Darwin, the theory was misappropriated by creationists, whom he attacked with characteristic vigour.
Some people, mainly Southerners, steadfastly argue that the Confederate flag is about history and brave rebellion, even that it has been misappropriated by the Klan.
In those e-mail messages, recipients are often asked to help Nigerian "dignitaries" regain large sums of money that have been misappropriated by the government.
Courts have not always sided with Al Gore, but his interests have prevailed in a San Francisco case involving a work of art whose creator claimed it had been misappropriated by Mr. Gore's cable television channel, Current TV.
And with symbolic panache, he ordered it to re-convene on a sacred holiday — the Fourth of July — as if to recapture the ideals of independence and revolution for the North before they could be misappropriated by the South.
