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Meanings of appropriated in English

Seized.

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        Examples for "seized"
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        Last year Italian police seized several billion euros' worth of 'Ndrangheta assets.
        Radio NZ
        2
        Restrictions were tightened after Hamas seized power in Gaza the following year.
        Reuters
        3
        NewsImageFile: Items seized... security guards outside the gatehouse of Captain Shah's home.
        News.com.au
        4
        He said current law allowed repatriation of assets seized from toppled regimes.
        Reuters
        5
        Thailand's military says it seized power to end political turmoil and corruption.
        Reuters
        1
        U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and former colonial power France condemned the violence.
        Reuters
        2
        Erdogan has condemned the case as a political attack on his government.
        Reuters
        3
        France and Germany condemned the coup, with the UN expressing serious concern.
        BBC
        4
        Enterprise condemned government plans, announced earlier this month, to hike alcohol duty.
        Reuters
        5
        Argentina, which recently elected a leftist government, also condemned the day's events.
        Reuters
        1
        Police confiscated firearms and liquor and will continue to monitor the area.
        The South African
        2
        I've had guns and knives confiscated from my campaign events this year.
        Game change: obama and the clintons, mccain and palin, and the r...
        3
        Police said in a statement they had confiscated their passports pending payment.
        Reuters
        4
        Police have searched the teenager's North Parramatta home and confiscated computer equipment.
        Radio NZ
        5
        But those weapons had been confiscated from him and destroyed, Villanueva said.
        Reuters
        1
        I confiscate it in the name of the Republic One and Indivisible.
        Kilgorman: A Story of Ireland in 1798
        2
        He has not proposed to confiscate the personal property of the Jews.
        Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4
        3
        Whicher told Constance he must confiscate her linen list and remaining nightclothes.
        The suspicions of mr. whicher: a shocking murder and the undoing...
        4
        By the time Mikael had arrived to confiscate the contents none remained.
        Agent 6
        5
        I confiscate their iPods all the time, so they'll listen to me.
        Big girl: a novel
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        New Ireland has only recently been taken over by Bank of Ireland.
        The Irish Times
        2
        Islamic State militants have taken over large parts of Iraq and Syria.
        Radio NZ
        3
        Aegis was taken over last year by GardaWorld, a Canadian security company.
        Reuters
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        The company was taken over by French food group, Danone, in 1991.
        The Irish Times
        5
        Al Qaeda members dressed as soldiers would have taken over several cities.
        BBC
        Usage of appropriated in English
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        Young people enjoy manga in its original form, translated yet not appropriated.
        The Guardian
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        Writer recommends that another 50 million be appropriated for a shoeshine stand.
        The new yorker
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        Today, a conservative faction in the Republican Party has appropriated the name.
        The Irish Times
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        Catherine appropriated the country east of the Düna and the Dnieper rivers.
        A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1.
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        The seats were appropriated by a young man & a young woman.
        The new yorker
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        They appropriated a round table in a distant corner of the restaurant.
        Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo
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        Tavernake appropriated the same table and once more the head waiter protested.
        The Tempting of Tavernake
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        The baptism in the Spirit, already bestowed at Pentecost, must be appropriated.
        The Ministry of the Spirit
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        I think the money had better be appropriated to relieve the poor.
        Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers
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        Sharp appropriated the caricature, and saw Judas personified in his own character.
        Sketches of the Covenanters
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        The new body now appropriated these and the hands deftly adjusted them.
        The Chessmen of Mars
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        Lord Hartledon is already appropriated; and Val Elster is not worth appropriating.
        Elster's Folly: A Novel
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        Perhaps Sarah had got the money from the receiver and appropriated it.
        For the Term of His Natural Life
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        We've appropriated a flat on the Sadovaya-that'sMoscow's 'Grand Boulevard,' Mr. Bourne.
        The bourne ultimatum
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        It is this very mainstream political repertoire that newer movements have appropriated.
        The Guardian
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        Bitter, indeed, were the hours so appropriated; but they had their consolations.
        Charlemont; Or, The Pride of the Village. a Tale of Kentucky
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