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Example sentences for "appropriated"

Lexicographically close words:
approche; approched; approching; approoued; appropriate; appropriately; appropriateness; appropriates; appropriating; appropriation
  1. Fired by these examples, Floris in his turn wandered across the Alps, and appropriated without assimilation the various mannerisms of the schools of Lombardy, Florence and Rome.

  2. Owing to his political activity Lorenzo had neglected the business interests of his firm, and in order to make good certain heavy losses he seems to have appropriated public funds.

  3. Delort, which was mostly appropriated by Ellis in his True History of the State Prisoner.

  4. A bluff greeting and short ceremony placed the visiters at the table, and each, upon a mute signal from the host, appropriated his cup and pipe.

  5. Several low buildings within, appropriated to barracks and magazines, just peered above the ramparts.

  6. In 1662, the town agreed that a part of every whale cast on shore be appropriated for the support of the ministry.

  7. When the log was too large to carry far, he cut it up where the last wave had left it, or rolling it a few feet appropriated it by sticking two sticks into the ground crosswise above it.

  8. I was told that about thirty thousand dollars in all had been appropriated to this object, though it was complained that a great part of this was spent foolishly, as the public money is wont to be.

  9. Carl appropriated this fund and made off a short time before the failure of the house.

  10. The income drawn from the silk manufactures of Granada, which had been appropriated to defray King Ferdinand's pension, was assigned by Philip to one of the royal treasurers.

  11. The alcalde-mayor immediately set about the rescue, appropriated two fragatas, and had them prepared to go to our people who were in the islands.

  12. Each of these powers is appropriated by a single individual, protecting and aiding him, and receiving his worship.

  13. This drink is designed for or appropriated by a few members, and they drink the liquid when it is quite hot.

  14. The splendour of the building is, however, shortly to be completed by the erection of another wing, to be appropriated as the King's College; and surveys have already been made for this purpose.

  15. In the early part of the last century, Somerset House was occasionally appropriated to masquerades and other court entertainments.

  16. They were at last removed altogether to prison Number Four, that appropriated in part to the coloured population, which was separated from the others.

  17. It now consisted of a long house (198 feet) facing a narrow courtyard and having four stories or galleries with a basement or cellar floor called Bartholomew Fair, which was appropriated to the Common Side or the solvent pauper debtors.

  18. The tax levied on a newcomer, besides the two shillings for “garnish” to be spent in wine, was one shilling and sixpence to be appropriated for the use of the House.

  19. The force which has been enrolled is in direct violation of the law of the State, and no money can be appropriated by the city for its support without incurring the heavy penalties provided by the Act of Assembly.

  20. In this emergency an intimation came to me indirectly from Secretary Seward, through a common acquaintance, that I was expected to pay the Government police out of the funds appropriated by law for the city police.

  21. The charges were founded on the report of certain commissioners to whom the matter had been remitted; and which charged the Duke with having appropriated L.

  22. Whatever we have occasion to think of often, and for scientific purposes, ought to have a name appropriated to it.

  23. Why not, as the ancients supposed, towards a particular place in the universe, appropriated to each particular kind of substance?

  24. As a remedy he now allows the entrepreneurs to devote half of the social labour appropriated as surplus value to the production not of common goods but of luxuries.

  25. Here s/x stands for the capitalised part of the surplus value appropriated in an earlier period of production; s' stands for the new surplus value created by the increased capital.

  26. In the resulting confusion and anarchy British capitalists successfully appropriated a considerable portion of the land.

  27. Capital has wholly appropriated the former variable capital in its material form, as labour power, but the working class retains only part of the variable capital in the form of money, the state claiming the rest.

  28. He suddenly appropriated villages by the score though without any legal excuse.

  29. Once this first condition is given, the second is that surplus value must be realised, converted into the form of money, so that it can be appropriated for the purposes of expanding reproduction.

  30. The aim and incentive of capitalist production is not a surplus value pure and simple, to be appropriated in any desired quantity, but a surplus value ever growing into larger quantities, surplus value ad infinitum.

  31. The next thing that I saw was that he took from her curls a rosebud and appropriated it to his buttonhole.

  32. The night before Lenora had appropriated to herself the best chamber, but the room was so large and so far distant from any one, and the windows and fireboard rattled so, that she felt afraid, and did not care to repeat her experiment.

  33. In the Brighton story the Devil would appear to have remembered his former failure in drowning people, and to have appropriated the form which defeated him.

  34. The old Dragon-myths, especially those which made the fame of Herakles, were appropriated to invest saintly forms.

  35. Accordingly, since this period, the commons have appropriated the yearly supplies to certain specified services; and an account of the application has been constantly submitted to both houses at the next session.

  36. He declared that he never asked aids from his people without regret; that what he desired was for their own safety and honour at such a critical time; and that the whole should be appropriated to the purposes for which it was intended.

  37. Sir William Wyndham, Mr. Pulteney, and sir John Barnard, expatiated upon the iniquity of pillaging a sacred deposit, solemnly appropriated to the discharge of the national debt.

  38. They were in the meantime committed to Newgate until those fines should be paid; and the commons addressed the king, that the money might be appropriated to the maintenance of Greenwich hospital.

  39. The parliament had burdened the French commodities with heavy duties which were already appropriated to different uses; and the channel of trade was in many respects entirely altered.

  40. All the duties appropriated to the payment of the interest were still continued, and the surplus of these incorporated with the sinking fund for the discharge of the principal.

  41. Within that circle, although it contains one of the numerous huge buildings appropriated to the viceroy's own purposes, he is still in Great Britain.

  42. The funds of the living were not to be alienated--were not, in truth, to be appropriated otherwise than they would have been had no such conditions as these been insisted on.

  43. Rufus had kept the see vacant, and appropriated the revenues of this and many other Church properties, and was only induced by the fear of impending death to appoint Anselm to the see.

  44. We took the paws and fat of the other two, after the Indians had appropriated the claws.


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