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Example sentences for: appropriating

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Through not more than one authorizing committee and one appropriating subcommittee in each house, Congress should be able to ask the secretary of homeland security whether he or she has the resources to provide reasonable security against major terrorist acts within the United States and to hold the secretary accountable for the department's performance.
A single committee in each house of Congress, combining authorizing and appropriating authorities, is another.
These Indians, also from South America, swept north in fast seagoing canoes, attacking and either eating or driving Arawak men off island after island, then appropriating their women.
. The Liberal government responded by appropriating much of the C.C.F.
Smith is fighting the end-of-the-world mavens on their own turf, appropriating their rhetoric and their symbols for his own, decidedly less Moral Majoritarian ends.