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Example sentences for: appropriated

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Contemporary Chinese historians wax indignant that, under the Qing Dynasty, funds appropriated for the imperial navy were, in fact, siphoned off to make Yiheyuan an increasingly luxurious private park.
GAO also has statutory authority to render decisions on matters such as bid protests and the availability and use of appropriated funds.
The basic template seems to be an amalgam of The Wizard of Oz and Happy Days : The relationship between Luke (Mark Hamill) and Han (Harrison Ford) is just the relationship between Richie and the Fonz; the Wookiee is cloned directly from the Cowardly Lion; and the scene in which C-3PO is dismembered by the Sand People is completely appropriated from the scene in which the Scarecrow is dismembered by flying monkeys in The Wizard of Oz . It is true that The Wizard is a story implanted deep in the memory banks of the viewing public--but it is a stretch to call Star Wars ' appeal atavistic.
The Illinois Equal Justice Foundation has recently made its first grants from money appropriated by the Illinois General Assembly.
The latter refers to property which had been appropriated because the home ovwner had not paid taxes on it.