For if the individual appropriates to selfish ends what should be devoted to the common good, all human fellowship will be destroyed.
The swindler is he who appropriates another's goods by methods of gross deception or false pretenses while the embezzler transfers to himself the funds entrusted to his care.
The responsibility is partly in the executive department; but it is also partly in Congress, for it creates bureaus, defines their duties, appropriates money for them.
The material which the personappropriates creates a system of obligation.
Another proof that a spirit is his ruling love is that every spirit seizes and appropriates all things that are in harmony with his love, and rejects and repudiates all that are not.
Each one appropriates and enjoys his own individual pleasure, according to the peculiar development of his faculties.
We have been considering the acts by which the soul appropriates God to herself; meanwhile, we must not forget that the active concurrence of God is as essential in the Beatific Vision as the action of the creature.
Compare, for example, the case of the petty pilferer who appropriates my watch, with the case of the man of business who appropriates securities worth many thousand pounds and ruins widows and orphans by the dozen.
A person governed by passion indulges in stimulants and meat, and appropriates the wives and the wealth of other people, and sets a bad example (for imitation by others).
Fifth: So divine providence appropriates neither evil nor good to anyone, but one's own prudence appropriates both.
So divine providence appropriates neither evil nor good to anyone, but one's own prudence appropriates both.
Hence it is plain that freedom appropriates to him what divine providence introduces, which would not take place if providence were manifest.
Unless he learned from elsewhere that they are evils he would call them goods and give them expression freely according to his thought's reasoning; doing so, he appropriates them to himself.
He who believes otherwise is like one who has his master's goods in his care and claims them himself or appropriates them--he is no steward, but a thief.
Evil is indeed from hell but as man receives it from hell as his and appropriates it to himself, it is the same whether one says that evil is from man or from hell.
It annexes the territory in question to the Orleans Territory; it creates a Governor; it enacts laws, and appropriates money.
The city appropriates one-half of one mill on the general assessment, for university purposes.
Each year the Board of Education appropriates five hundred dollars for the Public School Athletic League, which organizes meets and games, open to all public school pupils free of charge.
The board of educationappropriates ten thousand dollars a year toward the maintenance of the Teachers' College, the school in which the city teachers are trained.
It willingly appropriates much of their teaching and ritual.
In the exercise of saving faith he not only appropriates the works and gifts of God but also enters into full and active harmony and coöperation with God in his own regeneration and salvation.
It meets its rival with a smile of appreciation, then seeks to fraternize with it, after which it approves and appropriates and finally absorbs it.
He beholds things, and appreciates and appropriates spiritual blessings, more through the help of forms and ceremonies than does the man of the West.
But not only is it a machine which feeds and appropriates to its own support the nourishment necessary to its existence--it is an engine for locomotive purposes.
Piety drinks at the deep, elemental sources of power and order: it studies nature, honours the past, appropriates and continues its mission.
If he ever appropriates them in recollection or prophecy, it is only on the ground of some physical relation which they may have to his being.
He thus lays hold of the promise of Christ and appropriates it as his own.
That faith necessarily leads to good works, since it embraces the whole truth of God so far as made known, and appropriates Christ, not only as an external Savior, but as an internal sanctifying power (Heb.
Government Appropriates Millions and Chicago Leads All Other Cities with a Round Million of Dollars--People in All Ranks of Life from President Roosevelt to the Humblest Wage Earner Give Promptly and Freely.
When a man eats he appropriates to himself, and incorporates into his very being, the food of which he partakes.
And when a man trusts Christ he appropriates to himself, and incorporates into his inmost being, the very life of Jesus Christ.
Grandmaison appropriates plate under sequestration, and Bachelier plate given as a present.
He appropriates an atom of the Buddhic plane, and reflects in that his aspect of cognition, and that becomes buddhi.
The Self appropriates matter, in order that He may manifest His powers through it.
He appropriates an atom of the manasic plane and embodies, as it were, his activity in it, and it becomes Manas.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "appropriates" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
