Appropriating

We know what you're thinking, appropriating from the grave, etc. ❋ Al Kamen (2010)

Here goes another chance for anyone interested in appropriating yet another cultural behavior for the sake of god knows what. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Congress rightly and quickly responded in appropriating needed funds to ensure an adequate initial response to Hurricane Katrina. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Nevertheless, many still see great potential in appropriating it as an effective water resource management tool in places where fresh water supplies are dwindling due to overpopulation and climate change. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Centuries later, Jews would repay the compliment by appropriating the Greek word geometry and creating the word gematria, which is Hebrew for ❋ Unknown (2009)

Tacitus could not be deceived in appropriating to the Christians of ❋ Unknown (1206)

If I, as a white Scotsman, write a Coyote story is that wrong simply because I'm appropriating from a marginalised culture to a dominant one, or is it wrong because I haven't served my time learning that story from a teacher who's accepted me as student, because I haven't paid my dues, because I'm not paying proper tribute, because I'm breaking from the oral tradition, because I'm telling it in the wrong way, in the wrong time and place, for the wrong reason? ❋ Hal Duncan (2006)

In the meantime, and before any action has been taken on Mr. Buchanan's proposition of occupying the frontier provinces of their neighbour, the anaconda itself is severed into two parts: the protector is occupied at home with internecine quarrels, quarrels which suggest the idea that, in appropriating portions of Mexican territory, he had himself become assimilated somewhat to the Mexican in character, and the anarchs suddenly find themselves at the mercy of those they have so long injured with impunity. ❋ Unknown (1861)

And she is totally in love with the idea of appropriating the eBay brand as her own. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The forethought "relationship" of behooving, i.e., of the to chre of the first beginning, is called the appropriating event Ereignis. ❋ Enowning (2007)

Then, after the Restoration, the landlords conceived the idea of appropriating the right of representation, as they had appropriated and were appropriating the common lands. ❋ Brooks Adams (1887)

It becomes morally good only when it is the expression of an under-lying spiritual appropriating, that is, when it does not rest on mere sensuous impulse, but on conscious love, not so much to the sensuous object per se as rather to God who lovingly gives it to us. ❋ 1819-1870 (1873)

Generations came and generations died out, and the years still rolled on till ages passed away; but though poor and degraded, the priestly caste existed still amongst the Indians, and from father to son was the great secret handed down in village after village, the idea of appropriating to their own use the buried treasures never once being dreamed of; but, with the wealth of princes scattered here and there throughout the country, the ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)

South Carolina scorns the idea of appropriating to herself the _property_ of another, whether of a government or an individual, without accounting, to the last dollar, for everything which, for the protection of her citizens and in vindication of her own honor and dignity, she may deem it necessary to take into her own possession. ❋ Jefferson Davis (1848)

When Darrell, rich by the rewards of his profession and the bequest of his namesake, had entered Parliament, and risen into that repute which confers solid and brilliant station, Mrs. Lyndsay conceived the idea of appropriating to herself his honours and his wealth by a second Hymen. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)

This is really a variant of the idea of appropriating natural resource values (such as through land value tax) to finance a citizens 'inheritance/income. ❋ Stuart White (2010)

"That [movie] better be [appropriate] for [Sarah] to watch." ❋ DogeAnswers (2016)

African American [identity] is sometimes appropriated by people who didn’t [earn] it with their [white privilege]. ❋ True_Lust (2019)

"It isn't appropriate to voice your objections." "All [students] [shall] [dress] appropriately." ❋ QuinnMallory (2013)

how "appropriate" is that [swim] [suit]? ❋ JS (2005)

Person: My lNative American [step-mother] used to hang [dream catchers] on our walls, but she passed away. Is it still appropriate for me to keep it? Ruby Richardson: Is she from the [Ojibwe] tribe? Have you studied the history of the Ojibwe people and the dream catcher? If not then it’s not meant for you and it’s cultural appropriation and I don’t care that it was a gift from your deceased stepmother. ❋ The Baconspiracy (2020)

[Susie] told me that I had a big package, and we know she wasn't talking about [the box] I was carrying; it was so [passive appropriate]! ❋ Julia Goulia (2019)

SJW: "Oh my god, that white person is making [a CURRY]?! That is [cultural appropriation] and so wrong!" White Supremacist: "I agree with you, white people need to stick to their own culture and shun anything created by black or [brown people]" ❋ Cicero1 (2020)

Cultural Appropriation is a very [common] [result] of [diversity]! ❋ Hi Im Your Average Teabag (2018)

Idiot 1: Yo I just cancelled someone for Cultural Appropriation. Idiot 2: Yo why. Idiot 1: They wore [a dress] with an Asian pattern. Idiot 2: Wow, [so inspirational]. You are [saving the world] from all this racism. ❋ General Clanker (2021)

[SJW]: OMG, look at that white girl with dreadlocks! That's [cultural appropriation]! Sane individual: [Eat a bag of dicks]. ❋ Gubless (2016)