appropriator

How To Use appropriator In A Sentence

• I think there's a compelling case to be made that, by and large, an appropriator from a dominant culture carrying out such an act is likely to be doing so for negative motives and to negative results, that historically such cross-cultural sacrilege is motivated by misrepresentation and discrimination and aimed towards furthering misrepresentation and discrimination. Archive 2006-09-01
• It's an ingenious hybrid where true believers provide the cannon fodder while an elite cabal of generals, arms merchants, land appropriators, oil prospectors and slave traders, muscle their way into the profits of war.
• That may be true for "appropriators," but what if real fiscal conservatives were to join the committee, thus changing the way the committee was run? Ken Blackwell: Getting Our Fiscal House in Order
• Now, I'm not trying to pick on the appropriators.
• The misappropriator who uses a trade secret to profit will often have the same interest as the the owner in avoiding further dissemination. Archive 2009-04-01
• The appropriators in both Houses wield a tremendous amount of power over the make-up of the budget, and will fight like cornered animals when their territory is challenged.
• And appropriators will appropriate, particularly if you have a president who keeps driving that appropriations train.
• Another appropriator, Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., said she would fight Republicans for a funding freeze — rather than cuts — to avoid harming programs such as weather satellites. Looming gap in weather satellites threatens forecasting
• Not only did the appropriators control the money, they also found informal ways to control the implementation of new laws. The Good Fight
• Weldon would ask Miller and Howell what they thought of O’Keefe’s latest, then call the appropriators back with counterproposals. The Dream Machine