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Example sentences for: appropriated

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Rates, generally, did not cover the costs of providing service, so Congress appropriated tax dollars to make up the difference.
Chase-Riboud's suit claims that the film's screenwriters read her historical novel about the slave rebellion, Echo of Lions , and appropriated its fictionalized characters and plot twists.
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.
Responding to the wildfires that burned over 6.5 million acres of public and private land in 2000, the Congress appropriated an additional $240 million in fiscal year 2001 to reduce hazardous fuels in high-risk locations where wildlands and urban areas meet.
Last year Congress appropriated $329 million to LSC to distribute to local programs across the country and LSC has requested the same amount for 2003.