Sentence examples for who appropriated from inspiring English sources

The SRP began as an election-time pledge given by unpopular authoritarian elites, who appropriated the SRP to garner votes in the underdeveloped Jeolla provinces in the southwest.

The early Puranas were probably compiled by upper-caste authors who appropriated popular beliefs and ideas from people of various castes.

Writer Henry George, running for mayor of New York, decried the "speculative" gains of financial barons and the monopolists who appropriated "unearned" profits.

He appears to have strong backing from the mayor, who appropriated $32 million in the new budget for mental health programs and more correction officers.

Adopting the winking moniker Mr. Brainwash and prodded by Banksy (who appropriated his tapes and filmmaking duties), Mr. Guetta stages a 2008 show of what he is pleased to call his own work.

Tashlin's bold use of color, CinemaScope and outrageous sight gags (drawn from his earlier career as a director of Warner Brothers cartoons) earned the admiration of Jean-Luc Godard, who appropriated Tashlin's pop self-awareness into his own work.

The real defence of Koons, and other artists who "appropriate", is of freedom of imagination.

There is Raisele, who appropriates Lilian's peignoir after Lilian sets off on her big journey.

Hans-Peter Feldmann, 68, a German artist living in Düsseldorf who appropriates everyday images for his carefully conceived installations.

The Feminist Press has just reprinted her 1963 novel, "By Cécile," about a woman who appropriates her husband's mistress.

But there is also "outlaw" in the Willie Nelson/Waylon Jennings sense: people who appropriate the image without, necessarily, the criminal behavior.