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• We've had the authorization for years, but we've never gotten an appropriation.From the entry authorization
• Whenever there was an appropriations bill, he always had his hand out for his guys.From the entry have one's hand out
• Republicans defeated Democratic efforts to logroll hate crimes legislation into the defense appropriations bill.From the entry logroll
• White Americans engaged in cultural appropriation when they performed dances involving blackface and mock Native American regalia.From the entry cultural appropriation
• The legislature enacted an omnibus appropriations bill.From the entry omnibus
• He sits on the appropriations committee.From the entry sit on
• Appropriations bills sometimes include funds for projects not requested by the executive branch.2022, Sarra Jenkins, Emma Kilheeney McSherry, US Politics Annual Update 2022. From the entry lettermark
• Cultural appropriation is a difficult subject to navigate, because in literature appropriation is full of grey areas.2016 November 25, Neve Mahoney, “Question your motives when appropriating minority voices”, in Eureka Street. From the entry sensitivity reader
• Where, then, is the line that divides the simple pleasure of cultural fusion from cultural appropriation?2015 April 2, Navneet Alang, “Must We Forfeit Our Ghee?”, in Hazlitt, retrieved 14 May 2023. From the entry cultural appropriation
• The Chinese appropriation of "other" types of architecture results from all kinds of negotiation.2013, Bianca Bosker, Original Copies: Architectural Mimicry in Contemporary China, University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page viii. From the entry Tumushuke
• Already we've seen early hallmarks of the twentieth century: colonial decay, cultural appropriation, and competing trademarks.2010, Roger Bennett, Eli Horowitz, Everything You Know Is Pong, Harper Collins, →ISBN, page 4. From the entry gossima
• Another form of appropriation that could affect valuation of participation is simple commercialization for private gain.2002 December, Yochai Benkler, “Coase's Penguin, or, Linux and The Nature of the Firm”, in Yale Law Journal, volume 112, number 3, →ISSN…. From the entry jalt
• William Hoagland, who served as director of budget and appropriations.2014 December 14, Deirdre Shesgreen, “Boehner, McConnell face big to-do list in next Congress”, in USA Today, retrieved 25 Mar 2015. From the entry belly up to the bar
• The main work is not the translation at all, but Nabokov's appropriation of it through his inflated peritext.2011, David Bellos, Is That a Fish in Your Ear?, Penguin, published 2012, page 143. From the entry peritext
• Mazzucchelli particularly has it in for Willy Ilium, a snooty, priapic little choreographer whose work consists of postmodern appropriation and recontextualization.2009 July 26, Douglas Wolk, “Shades of Meaning”, in New York Times. From the entry recontextualization
• This was clearly a whitefellas′ appropriation of blackfellas′ dreaming.2008, Michael Cohen, Paul Dwyer, Laura Ginters, “Performing “Sorry Business”: Reconciliation and Redressive Action”, in Graham St. John…. From the entry whitefella
• Many of the deaths occurred in Zunyi and neighbouring Jinsha county, the result of violent appropriation of grain by officials.2000, Graham Hutchings, “Guizhou Province”, in Modern China: A Guide to a Century of Change, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press…. From the entry Jinsha
• There is nothing campy in all this appropriation, though, at least as these younger, info-age musicians understand it.2000 January 16, Gerald Marzorati, “Fromage Hommage”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 12 Dec 2018. From the entry info age
• Technically, DOE did not need authority to reprogram the funds as long as the spending didn't span different appropriation line items.1993, Diane Publishing Company, Defense Conversion: Redirecting R & D, page 110. From the entry reprogram
• In the tax levy measure were omnibused all appropriations for the maintenance of government for the fiscal year.1927, Denis Tilden Lynch, chapter XXIII, in “Boss” Tweed: The Story of a Grim Generation, New York, N.Y.: Boni & Liveright, →OCLC…. From the entry omnibus
• It also encapsulates the entitlement of the white tourists exemplified by careless cultural appropriation and lack of knowledge about the land's histories.2016, Katarina Gregersdotter, Johan Höglund, Nicklas Hållén, Animal Horror Cinema: Genre, History and Criticism, →ISBN, page 81. From the entry appropriative
• This is also gendered: it is women and feminine-of-centre people who are producing these forms of activism as well as being fodder for appropriation.2016, Charlotte Cooper, Fat Activism: A Radical Social Movement, Intellect Books, →ISBN. From the entry feminine of center
• More unusual is perhaps the appropriation of a psychoanalytical theory to robotics–which is, in effect, what the uncanny valley aims to do.2015, Kathleen Richardson, An Anthropology of Robots and AI, Routledge, →ISBN. From the entry uncanny valley
• Most continuing resolutions are temporary measures that expire on the date specified in the CR, or are superseded by enactment of the regular appropriations act.2004, Allen Schick, The Federal Budget: Politics, Policy, Process, →ISBN, page 228. From the entry cr
• All moneys deposited in the honey fund shall, subject to legislative appropriation, be expended by the commissioner for use pursuant to this Act.1979, Laws Passed at the Session of the Legislative Assembly of North Dakota. From the entry honey fund
• CRs are a common occurrence because it is highly unusual for Congress and the president to pass all 13 appropriations bills by the start of the new fiscal year.2014, Robert E. Dewhirst, John David Rausch, Encyclopedia of the United States Congress, →ISBN, page 149. From the entry cr
• Further, for Middle Eastern petrofiction, such as Abdelraman Munif's novel Cities of Salt, the novel can seem an unfortunate appropriation of the Western form rather than an indigenous form.2013 May, Elisa Warford, “Texas petrofiction: regionalism and the oil stories of Winifred Sanford”, in Southwestern American Literature…. From the entry petrofiction
• Each is laden with assumptions and appropriations that, in discursive terms, reinforce a culture of masculinism – the cultural dominance of the male (in the public sphere).2002, Stephen M. Whitehead, Men and Masculinities, Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, page 115. From the entry masculinism
• Hegel ignores, represses, and emarginates these factors in order to found his logic on a dialectic conceived as the appropriation of the other, rather than a becoming other (Anderswerden).1992, Robert C. Holub, Crossing Borders, page 44. From the entry emarginate
• The conservative stance made it difficult to advance the legislation, and the appropriations process ended up in knots despite a Republican pledge to consider and pass 12 individual spending bills.2023 December 15, Carl Hulse, “A ‘Historical and Hysterical’ House Flees After a Tumultuous Year”, in The New York Times. From the entry in knots
• Thus “Telephone” inverts the power dynamics of media reception, where the empowering or queer reading of such products as lesploitation films are relegated as “readings against the grain” or appropriations.2011, Katrin Horn, “Follow the Glitter Way: Lady Gag and Camp”, in Richard J. Gray II, editor, The Performance Identities of Lady Gaga…. From the entry lesploitation

Meaning of appropriation

1. noun An act or instance of appropriating.
2. noun That which is appropriated.
3. noun Public funds set aside for a specific purpose.

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Questions about appropriation in a sentence

How do you use appropriation in a sentence?

Appropriation is used as a noun. For example: “We've had the authorization for years, but we've never gotten an appropriation.”

What is a short sentence with appropriation?

“He sits on the appropriations committee.”

What does appropriation mean?

Appropriation means an act or instance of appropriating.