appropriating

We know what you're thinking, appropriating from the grave, etc.

Richard by any other name would be ... Al Kamen 2010

Here goes another chance for anyone interested in appropriating yet another cultural behavior for the sake of god knows what.

Obama 'fist bump' catching on 2008

Congress rightly and quickly responded in appropriating needed funds to ensure an adequate initial response to Hurricane Katrina.

Hurricane Katrina 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.

Archive 2006-01-01 2006

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.

Meteorological Alchemy 2006

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

mental_floss Blog 2009

Tacitus could not be deceived in appropriating to the Christians of

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 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?

The Sacred Domain Hal Duncan 2006

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?

Archive 2006-09-01 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.

The Joint Expedition to Mexico 1861