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Example sentences for "appropriation"

Lexicographically close words:
appropriated; appropriately; appropriateness; appropriates; appropriating; appropriations; appropriator; approue; approued; approval
  1. A motion to refer the general appropriation list to a committee of twenty-five met with overwhelming defeat in the face of the expressed sentiment that about all left of primitive democracy was the old-fashioned town meeting.

  2. One of the speakers on the town library appropriation was a lady, and her point was carried.

  3. He believes the intricacies of taxation and estimates of appropriation beyond the average mind?

  4. If the sales manager is given an appropriation of $500.

  5. The making of an appropriation does not operate against special appropriations to be used in taking advantage of specially advantageous market conditions, or to increase stocks of fast selling lines.

  6. Schedule of Monthly Insertions in Periodicals] When the amount of the appropriation has been decided, a schedule of the mediums to be used should be made.

  7. For example, a manufacturer may make a special appropriation for advertising his product in a certain state, using local papers, street cars, and bill boards.

  8. This is usually controlled by giving the buyer a stated appropriation at the beginning of each season, the amount being determined by a study of present conditions and records of past performance.

  9. This is the manner of Navagero, in the Ode to the Archangel Gabriel, and particularly of Sannazaro, who goes still further in his appropriation of pagan sentiment.

  10. Alfonso was far surpassed in learning by Federigo of Urbino, who had but few courtiers around him, squandered nothing, and in his appropriation of antiquity, as in all other things, went to work considerately.

  11. It becomes evident that the appropriation by a few of all riches not consumed, and transmitted from one generation to another, is not in the general interest.

  12. How the successive Governments of Peru can have reconciled this appropriation to the injury of one whom their first independent Government so warmly eulogised, it is difficult to conceive.

  13. To inspire the seamen with the reasonable expectation that the Chilian Government would reimburse them for their generosity, I added money of my own, on which they willingly consented to the appropriation of that due to the squadron.

  14. A treaty, therefore, which required an appropriation of money, or any act of congress to carry it into effect, had not acquired its obligatory force until the house of representatives had exercised its powers in the case.

  15. The division between a statue and a monument was so nearly equal, that the session passed away without an appropriation for either.

  16. In Chicago a special budget is created and added to the appropriation of the Police Department.

  17. In the cities of New York and Boston, an appropriation is made from the public treasury for the care and maintenance of their Municipal Emergency Homes.

  18. But when such a city creates an appropriation from its public treasury for the maintenance and management of a Municipal Emergency Home, there can be no reason to doubt the wisdom or the success of the experimentation of municipal charities.

  19. A modest contribution of the Red Cross headed a subscription list, General Belo following with his, and almost immediately the legislature made an appropriation of one hundred thousand dollars for food and supplies.

  20. The customary appropriation was made by Congress, and again I was appointed delegate.

  21. It may be well to explain that in these appointments the Government does not place the appropriation in the hands of the appointees, but simply becomes a guaranty.

  22. This was done, and the appropriation for expenses was made, and at my request Judge Joseph Sheldon, and by invitation Mr. A.

  23. We did so, and an appropriation was made by Congress to defray the expenses of three delegates.

  24. Congress continued to make appropriations for internal improvements, which the President usually vetoed, if they were in separate bills, and usually approved, if they were included in the general appropriation bills.

  25. The danger was that the {122} appropriation bills would become log-rolling measures for the purpose of obtaining national money for matters of local concern.

  26. Mr. McKay, of North Carolina, immediately introduced into the House of Representatives a bill making the appropriation asked by the President.

  27. The House did not, however, adopt this proposition, but sent the Appropriation Bill back to the Senate stripped of the Senate's amendment.

  28. He, therefore, repudiated Calhoun's latitudinarian view that Congress was referred to its own discretion merely in the appropriation of money for the advancement of the general welfare.

  29. Those who voted against the bill said they did so because the object for which the appropriation was sought was a local affair, managed by a private corporation, for private gain.

  30. The Senate passed this amendment, {351} and sent the Appropriation Bill thus modified back to the House for concurrence.

  31. Now commenced the appropriation of the spoils, the reward that had been promised to them.

  32. Then followed some legacies and pensions for the old servants of his household, a few gifts to the poor, and last the appropriation of a sum for which a mass was to be read on every anniversary of his death, for the peace of his soul.

  33. Governor Morehead sent a special message to the Legislature asking for an appropriation to care for the homeless throughout the state.

  34. Governor Morehead notified Mayor Dahlman that he would send a special message to the Legislature asking for the appropriation of sufficient funds to care for the homeless throughout the state.

  35. Such appropriation having been duly made, the fund awaits reception by the Chinese Government.

  36. Nor could contracts have been let under the law to all at a rate to have brought the aggregate within the appropriation without such practical prearrangement of terms as would have violated it.

  37. If such things are to be permitted, a strong argument is presented against the appropriation of large sums of money to improve the navigation of this and other important highways of commerce.

  38. The request for an appropriation sufficient to enable the general inspection of fourth-class offices has my approbation.

  39. The precise relocation of our boundary line is needful, and adequate appropriation is now recommended.

  40. This love is the outflowing response to another inflowing love, and this prayer the appropriation of a transcendental energy and grace.

  41. First, the State Legislature of Alabama increased its annual appropriation from two thousand dollars to three thousand dollars; I might add that still later it increased this sum to four thousand five hundred dollars a year.

  42. This request the Legislature had complied with to the extent of granting an annual appropriation of two thousand dollars.

  43. It is no longer the objective history of salvation which is here represented, but the subjective appropriation of salvation.

  44. In the Teutono-Romanic Church of the middle ages the appropriation and amalgamation of ancient classical modes of thought with modern tendencies awakened by its immediate surroundings were carried out and completed.

  45. There has thus begun a most natural and wholesome movement, which might easily be checked, with disastrous results, by the injudicious appropriation of national revenue for the aid of southern schools.

  46. To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years; 13.

  47. In thirteen of the states the governor can veto particular items in a bill for the appropriation of public money, while at the same time he approves the rest of the bill.

  48. The House of Representatives passed an urgency appropriation of nearly eighteen million dollars for war purposes.

  49. You can begin to sell town lots on that appropriation you know.

  50. Sellers, and laid the appropriation scheme away among his other plans for benefiting the public.

  51. But to go back a bit, it begins to look as if you never saw any of that appropriation at all?

  52. Mr. Trollop, you are pledged to support the Indigent Congressmen's Retroactive Appropriation which is to come up, either in this or the next session.

  53. I have found out that if a man knows how to talk to women, and has a little gift in the way of argument with men, he can afford to play for an appropriation against a money bag and give the money bag odds in the game.

  54. He doubted if the Columbus River appropriation would succeed if we did not invoke the Divine Blessing on it.

  55. It will require a portion of the appropriation for necessary expenses, and I am sorry to say that there are members who will have to be seen.

  56. It's going to be the great thing, but we'd better keep this appropriation going while I am perfecting it.

  57. Saturday night came, but the men were obliged to wait, because the appropriation had not come.

  58. An appropriation was a tangible thing, if you could get hold of it, and it made little difference what it was appropriated for, so long as you got hold of it.

  59. Pervasio, forcible appropriation of landed property, condemned by Edict of Athalaric, ix.

  60. This and other similar cases afford precedents for vestries to amend and regulate the appropriation of charities when it is no longer possible literally to comply with the stipulations of the donor.

  61. One has therefore to distinguish the instinct of appropriation and the instinct of submission in benevolence, according as the stronger or the weaker feels benevolent.

  62. An assignment or license without such a transfer is totally inconsistent with the theory upon which the value of a trade-mark depends and its appropriation by an individual is permitted.

  63. At Aquileja the appropriation of pagan fragments was carried so far that we found Classic capitals doing service as holy-water stoups.


  64. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "appropriation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abstraction; adoption; allocation; allotment; allowance; annexation; appointment; appropriateness; appropriation; assignment; assistance; assumption; borrowing; colonization; conquest; conversion; conveyance; derivation; donation; embezzlement; encroachment; fraud; graft; imitation; indent; infringement; invasion; liberation; mocking; occupation; pilfering; pinching; plagiarism; poaching; preemption; preoccupation; prepossession; requisition; seizure; share; simulation; stealing; subjugation; swindle; taking; theft; thievery; trespass; trespassing; usurpation


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    appropriation bill; appropriation bills; appropriations made