appropriation

How To Use appropriation In A Sentence

• The essays also stress how important were the dynamics of receiving cultures for the appropriation and interpretation of Christianity.
• Congress has ever been niggardly when little or no evidence of electoral sentiment is presented to justify more generous appropriations.
• Both the copies and the rubbings are completely different in spirit from postmodernist appropriation.
• In the 1950s, a housing boom multiplied the timber industry's reliance on stumpage from public lands, and the agency enjoyed a dramatic boost in political prestige and congressional appropriations.
• Artists have, of course, been sticky-fingered for ages, long before the term "appropriation art" was ushered into the lexicon to describe the Pictures Generation. The New Yorker
• He relinquished the Armed Services chairmanship in order to head the Appropriations Committee, where he secured continued funding for the war.
• He came of age during the Depression, arrived in Congress from Massachusetts in 1952 and came to power amid the plenty of the '60s and' 70s (he once boasted that he'd put money into an appropriations bill to study knock-knees). The Last Hurrah For Tip O'neill, 1912-1994
• The indirect solutions for ecological appropriation have a more familiar land reform ring but are not without positive environmental implications.
• -- If the appropriation were so given the University would be destroyed and the public school term lengthened a day and a half. History of the University of North Carolina. Volume II: From 1868 to 1912
• DIRECTOR RAINES: I think there is a great chance to have a bill that we can sign, and we have worked with the conference committee and the leadership of the appropriations committees to make it very clear to them what steps would need to be taken to make it signable. Press Briefing On The Line Item Veto