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appropriate as in:  it is appropriate

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  • The movie is not appropriate for young children.
  • We disagree about what is appropriate.
  • Her behavior was inappropriate.
    inappropriate = not suitable (not right for a particular situation)
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in inappropriate means not and reverses the meaning of appropriate. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
  • Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.   (source)
    appropriate = suitable
  • All they want me to do is dress and behave appropriately and not embarrass them.   (source)
    appropriately = in a suitable (fitting) manner for a particular situation
  • Inside was a little gift for everyone, including an appropriate verse.   (source)
    appropriate = suitable (fitting) for the situation
  • It didn't seem appropriate to be joking like that, Will, Miss Mattie Lou being so recently dead.   (source)
    appropriate = proper
  • "I'm feeling apprehensive," he confessed, glad that the appropriate descriptive word had finally come to him.   (source)
    appropriate = suitable (fitting for a particular situation)
  • He used to think he wanted to work for the F.B.I., but this didn't seem the appropriate place to mention that.   (source)
    appropriate = right (suitable or fitting)
  • Lale was told to make his way to Prague, report to the appropriate authorities, and await further instructions.   (source)
    appropriate = applicable or relevant
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  • He also said that I should use the vocabulary words that I learn in class like "corpulent" and "jaundice." I would use them here, but I really don't think they are appropriate in this format.   (source)
    appropriate = suitable (fitting)
  • I've brought appropriate clothing.   (source)
    appropriate = suitable (fitting) for the situation
  • He explained that little girls need to be instructed in how to behave appropriately around men, so as not to be too inviting.   (source)
    appropriately = properly
  • Maybe some primitive urge—some ancient genes, not appropriate anymore—drove Ma to leave us because of the stress, the horror and real danger of living with Pa.   (source)
    appropriate = suitable (fitting) for a particular situation
  • "Pfiffikus!" she echoed, quickly adopting the appropriate cruelty that childhood seems to require.   (source)
    appropriate = suitable or fitting for a particular situation
  • He normally liked singing along, but a patriotic song hardly seemed appropriate when here was a fifteen-year-old girl shot in the head, an almost dead daughter.   (source)
    appropriate = suitable (fitting)
  • "What's up, Augustus?" I said, trying to model appropriate behavior.   (source)
  • However, if the soul does exist, then in accordance with eBay's policy on human parts and remains we would not allow the auctioning of human souls. The soul would be considered human remains; and although it is not specifically stated on the policy page, human souls are still not allowed to be listed on eBay. Your auction was removed appropriately and will not be reinstated.   (source)
    appropriately = properly
  • But McDonald's has a rule that employees have to wear appropriate footwear at all times.   (source)
    appropriate = suitable (fitting) for the situation
  • "These colors are appropriate for any occasion," Malcolm continued, "and they go well together, should I mistakenly put on a pair of gray socks with my black trousers."   (source)
    appropriate = suitable (fitting)
  • Sandy was proud of the notebook he bought, with its glossy cover photograph of a bald eagle in flight (sort of appropriate, he explained to the judge; fits in with Uncle Sam and all that).   (source)
  • He has outraged too many wise men and pleased too many fools to hide behind his too-appropriate pseudonym much longer.   (source)
  • "How'd she look?" inquired Little Man, interested enough to glance up from the road for the first time.
    T.J. looked around grimly and whispered, "Like . . . death." He waited a moment for his words to be appropriately shocking, but the effect was spoiled by Little Man, who asked lightly, "What does death look like?"   (source)
    appropriately = in a manner fitting for the situation
  • I was wearing the outfit Winifred had thought appropriate for the occasion, which was a nightgown of satin in a shade of salmon pink, with a delicate lace trim of cobweb grey.   (source)
    appropriate = suitable (fitting)
  • I delight in being a child when it's appropriate to be a child.   (source)
  • "But that's not appropriate at all," Charles said crossly.   (source)
    appropriate = proper
  • This seemed like an appropriate time to disappear completely.   (source)
    appropriate = suitable (fitting)
  • Isn't that an appropriate response, when three policemen have their weapons drawn and pointed at you?   (source)
  • When asked about them I had acquired an accent appropriate to a town three states south of my own, and I had transmitted the impression, without actually stating it, that this was the old family place.   (source)
  • ...though it didn't look quite as nice as the first one, it conveyed an image she thought would be more appropriate.   (source)
    appropriate = suitable (fitting) for the situation
  • The assignment was to draw a map of Louisiana and write in the names of the parishes in their appropriate places.   (source)
    appropriate = suitable (where they belong)
  • But at this particular moment, the exclamation mark seemed entirely appropriate. It was terribly exciting that...   (source)
    appropriate = suitable (fitting)
  • They waited for an appropriately decent answer.   (source)
    appropriately = suitable (fitting the situation)
  • Chiron ordered a twenty-four/seven guard duty on the hilltop, at least until he could find an appropriate monster to protect the Fleece.   (source)
    appropriate = suitable (fitting)
  • As was perhaps appropriate for any shop specializing in the sale of puzzles and games, this one was itself built in the shape of a puzzle.   (source)
    appropriate = fitting or suitable
  • I was making far more eye contact than was appropriate.   (source)
    appropriate = suitable (fitting) for a particular situation
  • What would have been an appropriate level of intensity for my anger at feeling shut out of life?   (source)
    appropriate = suitable (fitting)
  • I look at the preacher and at my new mama and fix my face to look like hers. We all sit lined up with faces like hers. She says to be appropriate. It is hard too when...   (source)
    appropriate = proper (behave in a fitting manner)
  • "No," Liam interrupted, "but I imagine it's not pretty or appropriate for an eleven-year-old's ears."   (source)
    appropriate = suitable (fitting)
  • I began for the first time to adopt a frame of mind appropriate for the journey before me.   (source)
  • I'd chosen this particular music because of its beautiful, lilting beat, and also because I'd Googled Aldebaran and found out it was a giant star—and I thought music that celebrated the night sky was appropriate for tonight.   (source)
  • Miss Hastings pressed the appropriate button on the remote control, and Red Stevens appeared once again on the video screen.   (source)
    appropriate = applicable (correct)
  • It's the first time I've worn one here, but my birthday feels like the appropriate occasion.   (source)
    appropriate = suitable (fitting)
  • I looked sick, haunted, which I felt was appropriate so I just left my face as it was, without applying any makeup or touching my hair.   (source)
    appropriate = fitting to the situation
  • There is a trail here, but it is more appropriate for squirrels than humans.   (source)
    appropriate = suitable (fitting)
  • Will the party who addressed me at bedtime last night kindly make himself or herself known by giving an appropriate sign or signal!   (source)
    appropriate = suitable (fitting) for a particular situation
  • For such things your education is appropriate and mine non-existent.   (source)
    appropriate = suitable (fitting)
  • I've spent a lot of money on the most ostentatiously vulgar parties I could think of, and a miserable amount of time on being seen with the appropriate sort of women.   (source)
  • He also pointed out that, in at least one case, a local cop had used "physical force beyond what appeared appropriate for the arrest" and needed to be restrained by the Border Patrol agents accompanying him.   (source)
    appropriate = suitable (fitting) for a particular situation
  • I've got some ideas for your ashes. ... We'll find something appropriate.   (source)
    appropriate = suitable (fitting)
  • Toulon enters as a judge, wearing the appropriate wig and robes.   (source)
  • Another woman would have thought that her son was bewitched, and taken appropriate measures.   (source)
    appropriate = applicable (suitable)
  • In other words it is necessary that he should have the mentality appropriate to a state of war.   (source)
    appropriate = fitting (suitable)
  • And it was from Cody that he inherited money — a legacy of twenty-five thousand dollars. He didn't get it. ... He was left with his singularly appropriate education; the vague contour of Jay Gatsby had filled out to the substantiality of a man.   (source)
    appropriate = suitable or fitting
  • So I speak to him and say to him: "Comrade, I did not want to kill you." If you jumped in here again, I would not do it, if you would be sensible too. But you were only an idea to me before, an abstraction that lived in my mind and called forth its appropriate response.   (source)
    appropriate = suitable (fitting) for a particular situation
  • And before he could add anything to the nervous gloom which shadowed her face, she added: "That other money was for her, you know, to bring her back here after her—her"—she hesitated over the appropriate word but finally added—"husband left her there in Pittsburgh."   (source)
    appropriate = suitable (fitting)
  • The champagne's very appropriate.   (source)
    appropriate = suitable (fitting) for the situation
  • More frequently, however, on ascending the steps, you would discern—in the entry if it were summer time, or in their appropriate rooms if wintry or inclement weathers—a row of venerable figures, sitting in old-fashioned chairs, which were tipped on their hind legs back against the wall.   (source)
    appropriate = fitting
  • Year after year he quietly and modestly amassed money, and when at length that snug and complete bachelor's residence at No. 201, Curzon Street, May Fair, lately the residence of the Honourable Frederick Deuceace, gone abroad, with its rich and appropriate furniture by the first makers, was brought to the hammer, who should go in and purchase the lease and furniture of the house but Charles Raggles?   (source)
    appropriate = suitable (fitting)
  • So ended their discourse, which, for any very appropriate service it could render Fanny, might as well have been spared, for Mrs. Norris had not the smallest intention of taking her.   (source)
  • Starting from a higher vantage point, we should develop a comprehensive strategy and set of principles so that we can respond appropriately when technological leaps occur.†   (source)
  • ALL PERSONS SHOULD DRESS APPROPRIATELY FOR THE WEATHER.†   (source)
  • His arms and legs were sprawled outward in a wide spread eagle, like those of a child making a snow angel...or, perhaps more appropriately, like a man being drawn and quartered by some invisible force.†   (source)
  • They'd tell the lander where Earth is, and it would angle the high-gain antenna appropriately.†   (source)
  • At that moment, appropriately enough, a flourish of trumpets and a crash of cymbals was heard from the passing parade.†   (source)
  • Appropriately used, it can strengthen class identification and deepen the hatred of class enemies.†   (source)
  • She couldn't even appropriately thank him.†   (source)
  • Typically, the plane would have been flying on autopilot in that situation, reacting immediately and appropriately to wind shear.†   (source)
  • Appropriately, the initiation for new Sangra members involved jumping a cop.†   (source)
  • I flicked on the TV and learned that The Donald and girlfriend Marla Maples were the proud parents of a girl, appropriately named Tiffany, who was born not long after Jenny delivered Conor.†   (source)
  • The sound was almost overwhelming, but it faded appropriately when I sang the first verse.†   (source)
  • I tried to sound appropriately enthusiastic.†   (source)
  • Nathaniel's soothing music is a nice touch at so busy an asylum, and it's appropriately schizophrenic, too, lovely at times and lost at others.†   (source)
  • Eusie had given him the Hebrew name Maher Shalal Hashbaz, meaning appropriately enough, "hastening to the spoils, hurrying to the prey."†   (source)
  • Our parents demanded that we behave appropriately at home and in public.†   (source)
  • Then I appropriately vanished.†   (source)
  • The funeral was appropriately solemn, Ramius remembered bitterly.†   (source)
  • Most of it's on the appropriately named Terminal Island, and since her plank doesn't run on the water, that means she can only get in or out by one access road.†   (source)
  • So we asked—actually I believe it might have been more appropriately characterized as shouted—the kids if we could have their attention for a moment.†   (source)
  • He looked appropriately scornful, as if he knew about the tenement, knew that chrysanthemums were out of style on hats.†   (source)
  • You will encourage your seatmates to behave appropriately.†   (source)
  • Three thousand feet, we all agreed, and the altitude was reported to the crowd, which ooohed and ahhhed appropriately.†   (source)
  • And he gave the breed an appropriately American name: the Beefmaster.†   (source)
  • A good surgeon must be fearful and he was a good surgeon, the best, never foolhardy, and appropriately fearful.†   (source)
  • After that, the argument about the motto, or the appropriateness of the sign as a whole, surfaced intermittently when there was nothing else to argue about around the place.†   (source)
  • Farmer narrated Haiti in the truck on the way to Cange, and White seemed appropriately horrified, but Farmer was still wary of him and didn't try to hide the fact.†   (source)
  • Please greet Lord Prusias appropriately so we may begin this important business.†   (source)
  • Appropriately enough, Sister was Yoga Janet's bunkieshe liked to be tucked into bed by Janet every night, with a hug and kiss on her soft, wrinkled forehead.†   (source)
  • Kara had appropriately and repeatedly expressed her horror over what Tom had done.†   (source)
  • It was Boots Thomas—appropriately—who got the unit moving: "Patrol, up the hill!†   (source)
  • The town of Mamou (population three thousand) is in the heart of Cajun country, appropriately in Evangeline Parish, the Louisiana term for county.†   (source)
  • The purpose of this dress code is to ensure that all students dress appropriately for school and school activities.†   (source)
  • They say they left appropriately obscure messages in the street and lured the man they were convinced was Cain down to the piers, to a fishing boat.†   (source)
  • Perhaps the drow masters had outfitted their spies more appropriately for the surface world, Errtu reasoned.†   (source)
  • Our marching songs were appropriately downbeat: "No Army for mine, no Army for mine!†   (source)
  • In the newsroom environment through which these essays pass, the prevailing atmosphere is appropriately skeptical and even harsh.†   (source)
  • She hoped she'd dressed appropriately, as she hadn't expected an immediate job interview when she'd left her hotel room that morning in jeans and her favorite red sweater.†   (source)
  • I marked everything appropriately.†   (source)
  • George felt appropriately squashed.†   (source)
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appropriate as in:  appropriate from their culture

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  • She appropriated my idea as her own.
    appropriated = took
  • She appropriated my coffee as she ran to the meeting.
    appropriated = took without asking
  • Amid widespread panic, the Lizard Men had made parts of Eurasia and South America their slave colonies, appropriating the younger women for their hellish breeding experiments and burying the corpses of the men in enormous pits, after eating the parts of them they preferred.   (source)
    appropriating = taking
  • She wears a long woolen coat, no doubt something the girls have appropriated from the Canada with no objection from the SS.   (source)
    appropriated = taken
  • As the Peacekeepers fell, weapons were appropriated for the rebels.   (source)
  • Whenever one of them made a move she had never seen before, she quickly appropriated it--imagined it as part of her own repertoire.   (source)
    appropriated = took
  • In exactly the same way, Germany shifted the borders of the European countries it had subdued, appropriating province after province;   (source)
    appropriating = taking (seizing)
  • I took charge of him and directed him to a house on the river which had been appropriated for a hospital.   (source)
    appropriated = taken
  • Nudge got onto the laptop we'd more or less appropriated from Anne.   (source)
  • But his house was large enough that she could have appropriated an entire wing for herself if she wanted it.   (source)
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  • Abruptly, Regis pulled the ruby pendant out from under his waistcoat and stared at the wondrous gem he had appropriated from his former master a thousand miles and more to the south, in Calimport.   (source)
  • When they had eaten, Red appropriated the herder's hat,   (source)
    appropriated = took
  • The deputy director seemed very good at appropriating everything that K. was now forced to give up!   (source)
    appropriating = taking
  • She aroused, smiled drowsily, and was off to sleep again; and asleep I left her, under a heavy pair of sailor's blankets, her head resting on a pillow I had appropriated from Wolf Larsen's bunk.   (source)
    appropriated = taken
  • To be more precise: You have told us at last your secret, in your words, so 'disgraceful,' though in reality—that is, of course, comparatively speaking—this action, that is, the appropriation of three thousand roubles belonging to some one else, and, of course, only for a time is, in my view at least, only an act of the greatest recklessness and not so disgraceful, when one takes into consideration your character….   (source)
    appropriation = taking
  • The central space, together with the recess at one end, was emptied of all incumbrances, and this area, covering about two-thirds of the whole, was appropriated for the gathering, the remaining end, which was piled to the ceiling with oats, being screened off with sail-cloth.   (source)
    appropriated = taken or used
  • Its two slopes have been appropriated for the monumental hillock.   (source)
    appropriated = taken
  • But as soon as it was finished, the buzz was redoubled through all the drawing-rooms; the brilliant sums, the rolling millions which were to be at the command of the two young people, and which crowned the display of the wedding presents and the young lady's diamonds, which had been made in a room entirely appropriated for that purpose, had exercised to the full their delusions over the envious assembly.   (source)
    appropriated = taken or used
  • It must be observed that, among other appropriations from his master's stock, Adolph was in the habit of adopting his name and address;   (source)
    appropriations = things taken
  • Lord Ravenshaw and the duke had appropriated the only two characters worth playing before I reached Ecclesford; and though Lord Ravenshaw offered to resign his to me, it was impossible to take it, you know.   (source)
    appropriated = taken
  • ...raising the conditions of new appropriations of Lands.   (source)
    appropriations = takings
  • Earlier on the German commissariat had appropriated supplies of hay there which belonged to the Polish army.   (source)
    appropriated = taken (seized)
  • Such an outcry over other people's crimes is truly ludicrous — as if the enemy didn't know about the art treasures we've appropriated and exported from Poland, or those we have destroyed in Russia.   (source)
    appropriated = taken
  • It forbids people to practise their religion, the young are brought up godless, the Church is opposed and its property appropriated, anyone who thinks differently is terrorized, the free human nature of the German people is debased -and they are turned into terrified slaves.   (source)
    appropriated = taken (seized)
  • My father, who was then officer in charge of the sporting facilities of the city of Warsaw appropriated by the Wehrmacht, protected him by giving him work at his office under the false name of "Cichocki".   (source)
    appropriated = taken
  • In practice this means that she appropriates the MEAT LIKE YOU LIKE IT sign and incorporates it into one of her constructions,   (source)
    appropriates = takes without asking
  • She writes about situations in which members of a dominant culture appropriate elements from a disadvantaged minority culture.
    appropriate = take
  • To Mrs. Yeobright, as soon as she could calmly reflect, there was much likelihood in this, for she could hardly believe that Wildeve would really appropriate money belonging to her son.   (source)
    appropriate = take without asking
  • Both entered, and found themselves in darkness; but Mme. Bonacieux was acquainted with all the turnings and windings of this part of the Louvre, appropriated for the people of the household.   (source)
    appropriated = used
  • The interior of the barricade, that species of tiny courtyard appropriated from the street, was bathed in shadows, and resembled, athwart the vague, twilight horror, the deck of a disabled ship.   (source)
    appropriated = taken
  • To do him justice, however, he did not resolve to appropriate it; for remembering that there was some very good ranting-ground in Frederick, he professed an equal willingness for that.   (source)
    appropriate = take
  • The barricade had been put in order, the tap-room disencumbered, the kitchen appropriated for the ambulance, the dressing of the wounded completed, the powder scattered on the ground and on the tables had been gathered up, bullets run, cartridges manufactured, lint scraped, the fallen weapons re-distributed, the interior of the redoubt cleaned, the rubbish swept up, corpses removed.   (source)
    appropriated = taken
  • She said little, assented only here and there, and betrayed no inclination either of appropriating any part of the compliment to herself, or of strengthening his views in favour of Northamptonshire.   (source)
    appropriating = taking
  • When those young men whose surnames had been appropriated for years by my mooning girlfriends came to the store and drummed their big hands on the counter, I wanted to take each finger in my mouth and feel their calluses with my tongue.   (source)
    appropriated = taken
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appropriate as in:  Congress will appropriate funds

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  • Congress appropriated additional funds for airport improvement.
    appropriated = set aside
  • Money is appropriated for a two-year budget cycle during odd-numbered years.
    appropriated = set aside for particular purposes
  • Sincerely, Hilly Holbrook

    President and Chairman of Appropriations   (source)
    appropriations = committee that designates funding
  • Grimmer had to run an understaffed and underfunded institution and try to keep the whole thing together with spit, baling wire, and nickle-and-dime appropriations from a state legislature who had to go back and face the voters.   (source)
    appropriations = budget
  • Appropriations for Sardaukar training went down steadily in the final thirty years before the Arrakis Revolt.   (source)
  • The deacon board, however, did appropriate funds for him to buy a new suit.   (source)
    appropriate = provide
  • The furor over the treaty would continue until the House took up the necessary appropriations the following year.   (source)
    appropriations = funding
  • The man flipped through a notebook that listed miscellaneous military appropriations.   (source)
    appropriations = money budgeted for a particular use
  • In a single year, Burton watched his grant appropriations jump from $6,000 a year to $300,000.   (source)
    appropriations = money approved to spend
  • He set up a government within the government-by moving the decimal points in appropriations and salaries, sending his speechless enemies to tiny towns in Calabria, and rewarding sycophants with sinecures.   (source)
    appropriations = budgeted amounts
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  • The funds were buried under top-secret, eyes-only contingency appropriations.   (source)
    appropriations = budget
  • Ban v. 2-Year Appropriations   (source)
    appropriations = budgeting
  • But things like this never get the appropriations.   (source)
    appropriations = budget
  • All these war scares are concocted by the Pentagon—no offense meant to your brother—to get more appropriations, and give more handouts to Europe, and jack up taxes.   (source)
    appropriations = funding
  • In early spring Bennington finally chose a contractor to come to Yamacraw to install the air conditioners for which the board of education had appropriated money the previous summer.   (source)
    appropriated = budgeted (assigned for a particular use)
  • The organized campaign of your clique to cut down Guild Taxation and appropriations for the education of Espers and the dissemination of Esper training to mankind is conceived in a spirit of treachery and fascism.   (source)
    appropriations = budget
  • I shall ask this Congress for greatly increased new appropriations and authorizations to carry on what we have begun.   (source)
    appropriations = funding
  • granting an annual appropriation of two thousand dollars.   (source)
    appropriation = designation (setting aside for a special purpose)
  • But this poetry done into solemn prose meant either wholesale confiscation of private property in the South, or vast appropriations.   (source)
    appropriations = funding
  • I cannot describe the delight I felt when I learned the ideas appropriated to each of these sounds and was able to pronounce them.   (source)
    appropriated = assigned
  • No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.   (source)
    appropriations = funding
  • No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.   (source)
    appropriations = budget
  • With Mary Bono, I found one of the people in Congress who was responsible for Afghan appropriations.   (source)
    appropriations = budgeting
  • Military appropriations are limited to TWO YEARS.   (source)
    appropriations = approval of funding
  • The proposed Constitution limits military appropriations to a two-year period.   (source)
    appropriations = funding
  • Does the American require two-year Congressional appropriations?   (source)
  • Does the British Constitution limit military appropriations to one year?   (source)
    appropriations = approval of funding
  • The British Constitution has no limit on military appropriations.   (source)
    appropriations = funding
  • Some people say limiting military appropriations to the period of two years won't be safe.   (source)
    appropriations = approval of funding
  • And the American Constitution limits military appropriations to no more than two years.   (source)
    appropriations = funding
  • I have supposed that the items in the table of the Quarter Master's supplies and contingent expenses for the eight additional companies and privates to the old establishment and for the six additional companies of dragoons may be covered by the appropriations for the original army and that the 600 thousand dollars stated by the Quarter Master's Department for the 12 regiments will procure all the camp equipage not provided for by the table.   (source)
  • The same group can RAISE TROOPS to an INDEFINITE NUMBER, and appropriate money to support them for an INDEFINITE PERIOD OF TIME.   (source)
    appropriate = set aside (for a particular use)
  • If the majority party wants to appropriate more money than seems proper to support the military for two years, the community will be warned and be able to take measures to guard against it.   (source)
    appropriate = fund (set aside for a particular use)
  • The representative body has the power to make appropriations to the army for any period of time beyond one year.   (source)
    appropriations = approval of funding
  • Limiting the term for military appropriations is a second precaution against the danger from standing armies.   (source)
    appropriations = funding
  • Opponents of the Constitution say Great Britain requires an annual vote of the legislature for military appropriations and the American Constitution has lengthened this critical period to two years.   (source)
  • And I submit that there should be more bubble cities, and increased appropriations with respect to the exploration of outer space.   (source)
    appropriations = budget
  • Does the American impose on the Congress appropriations for two years?   (source)
    appropriations = funding
  • As to persons of quality, they give security to appropriate a certain sum for each child, suitable to their condition; and these funds are always managed with good husbandry and the most exact justice.   (source)
    appropriate = allocate (budget for a particular use)
  • Taught by experience that proper dependence could not be placed on the success of requisitions, unable by its own authority to lay hold of fresh resources, and urged by considerations of national danger, would it not be driven to the expedient of diverting the funds already appropriated from their proper objects to the defense of the State?   (source)
    appropriated = budgeted
  • Whoever can there bring sufficient proof, that he has strictly observed the laws of his country for seventy-three moons, has a claim to certain privileges, according to his quality or condition of life, with a proportionable sum of money out of a fund appropriated for that use: he likewise acquires the title of snilpall, or legal, which is added to his name, but does not descend to his posterity.   (source)
    appropriated = allocated
  • A GREAT and INDEPENDENT fund of revenue is passing into the hands of a SINGLE BODY of men, who can RAISE TROOPS to an INDEFINITE NUMBER, and appropriate money to their support for an INDEFINITE PERIOD OF TIME.   (source)
    appropriate = allocate (set aside for a particular use)
  • Let us examine whether there be any comparison, in point of efficacy, between the provision alluded to and that which is contained in the new Constitution, for restraining the appropriations of money for military purposes to the period of two years.   (source)
    appropriations = funding
  • The actual conduct of foreign negotiations, the preparatory plans of finance, the application and disbursement of the public moneys in conformity to the general appropriations of the legislature, the arrangement of the army and navy, the directions of the operations of war, these, and other matters of a like nature, constitute what seems to be most properly understood by the administration of government.   (source)
    appropriations = budgeting
  • …a proportion of the members are elected by so small a proportion of the people; where the electors are so corrupted by the representatives, and the representatives so corrupted by the Crown, the representative body can possess a power to make appropriations to the army for an indefinite term, without desiring, or without daring, to extend the term beyond a single year, ought not suspicion herself to blush, in pretending that the representatives of the United States, elected FREELY by…   (source)
    appropriations = funding
  • the army for an indefinite term, without desiring, or without daring, to extend the term beyond a single year, ought not suspicion herself to blush, in pretending that the representatives of the United States, elected FREELY by the WHOLE BODY of the people, every SECOND YEAR, cannot be safely intrusted with the discretion over such appropriations, expressly limited to the short period of TWO YEARS?†   (source)
  • Money to support an army can only be appropriated for Defense:   (source)
    appropriated = budgeted
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  • Another made us translate the lyrics of the works of Jacques Brel, a famous performer whose songs would have been appropriate for Suicide: The Musical.†   (source)
  • As long as we have an appropriate plan of action, I'm sure many people will support us.†   (source)
  • I wasn't sure what was appropriate to say, and perhaps nothing was.†   (source)
  • Appropriate commendations and the nodding of heads.†   (source)
  • Most of this tradition was far from child appropriate.†   (source)
  • In fact, we were so afraid for her, we felt we had no time to stop and ponder the most appropriate response.†   (source)
  • We need to get you some appropriate clothes.†   (source)
  • I was struggling to think of something appropriate to say when a younger woman spoke up.†   (source)
  • The hours were okay, I could cope with the fact that the uniform made my hair static, but I found it impossible to stick to the "appropriate responses" script, with its "How can I help you today?" and its "Would you like large fries with that?"†   (source)
  • Appropriate, he thought, barely able to contain his excitement.†   (source)
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  • You know, I don't think it's appropriate for Melody to be here.†   (source)
  • I don't know how I feel about it just yet, but it does seem appropriate to this time.†   (source)
  • When the hat announces your House, you will go and sit at the appropriate table.†   (source)
  • It feels appropriate somehow, to have reached the edge of the continent, to have only the hammered sea left in front of him.†   (source)
  • I delight in being a wise old man when it's appropriate to be a wise old man.†   (source)
  • Something appropriate.†   (source)
  • An irrational response that somehow would've seemed appropriate.†   (source)
  • She performed the appropriate rituals for removing a curse from the house, just in case there was one, and she also cast spells on people Williams suspected of wishing him ill.†   (source)
  • I wanted to shout that now, but it didn't feel appropriate.†   (source)
  • It seemed like an appropriate time to explain and reveal the new sculpture.†   (source)
  • Well, Coach Warner did not think that was appropriate, so he didn't do it.†   (source)
  • Now I was grinning, too, though the brightness of our grinning didn't seem exactly appropriate to the conversation.†   (source)
  • But I think she is only saying that because Lilly's parents are psychoanalysts, and it turns out Tina's dad is this Arabian sheikh and her mom is related to the king of Sweden, so they are more appropriate for the heir to the throne of Genovia to hang out with.†   (source)
  • Coach Lauren was writing the practice sets on the big marker board and carrying out the appropriate fins, buoys, and paddles.†   (source)
  • I assess them on behalf of the court to determine the nature of their mental illnesses, if any, and figure out an appropriate treatment plan.†   (source)
  • "I MEANT THAT MY REMARKS WERE 'APPROPRIATE' TO HER BEHAVIOR," Owen said.†   (source)
  • For example, it was perfectly appropriate, after Violet left the Reptile Room, for Sunny to crawl over to the cage that held the Incredibly Deadly Viper, unlatch the cage, and begin screaming as loudly as she could even though nothing was really wrong.†   (source)
  • A third wall had been converted into a series of darkrooms with appropriate drainage.†   (source)
  • Unless it's appropriate.†   (source)
  • Dorian had been given a list of appropriate brides?†   (source)
  • The king had appropriated Ser Raymun's audience chamber, and that was where Ned found them.†   (source)
  • Leave my soft, worn hunting boots for a pair of expensive machine-made shoes that my mother thinks are more appropriate for someone of my status.†   (source)
  • Polite but steadfast, and with appropriate consideration.†   (source)
  • Already the other women with her, the blonde in the short pink bed jacket with the tatty fur trim, has been appropriated, has entered the glass elevator, has ascended out of sight.†   (source)
  • He thinks a Burgundy is appropriate!†   (source)
  • He never looks up, but I can tell he's listening to John's story as well, laughing at the appropriate places.†   (source)
  • As she worked, she felt quite proud of herself for being up-to-date with the best scientific knowledge, which allowed her to protect her family's health using an appropriate modern method—not like "the Kikapu" and her herbs!†   (source)
  • Appropriate.†   (source)
  • I struggled to find the appropriate words.†   (source)
  • He fumbled for an appropriate descriptor.†   (source)
  • Once again the silence between them was appropriated by old Mrs. Pillai's grunts.†   (source)
  • I decide to take Huckleberry (seems appropriate) and Where the Sidewalk Ends.†   (source)
  • Mr. Prosser said, "You were quite entitled to make any suggestions or protests at the appropriate time, you know."†   (source)
  • By the time the song ended, though, I was on the move and had situated myself close enough to Aspen for it to be appropriate for him to ask me to dance.†   (source)
  • Her nose had a hook and her mouth was plump and cherubic, which was appropriate considering that Cupid was her greatgrandfather.†   (source)
  • He's getting the appropriate standard of care— and believe it or not, the insurance company has been pretty responsive so far.†   (source)
  • His brand of wartime wheeling and dealing was not appropriate for a businessman in peacetime.†   (source)
  • In a situation like that, mitigation is entirely appropriate.†   (source)
  • We also have some clothes, though not many of the clothes we wore in Florida are appropriate for life in Ohio.†   (source)
  • "It's very clear to me what you've been doing and it's not appropriate," he'd said, and told them both to go and see Miss Emily.†   (source)
  • And appropriate, considering they plagiarized my childhood for the books.†   (source)
  • He could think of nothing appropriate to say; Roran was right.†   (source)
  • In addition to the three standard weapons-the M-60, M-16, and M-79-they carried whatever presented itself, or whatever seemed appropriate as a means of killing or staying alive.†   (source)
  • And later, we'll talk about an appropriate fee, eh?†   (source)
  • Perhaps she won't or can't, but my life inside of you will appropriate risk and uncertainty to transform you by your own choices into a truth teller, and that will be a miracle greater than raising the dead.†   (source)
  • "An appropriate comment upon our arrival," said Martin Silenus.†   (source)
  • Appropriate, perhaps, because that is what will happen to my body when all the life leaves it; it will become cold and heavy, heavier than I have ever been.†   (source)
  • Some people are better at finding the appropriate books.†   (source)
  • Really, it was a glorious silk gauze—though of summer weight, and certainly not appropriate for the fall weather.†   (source)
  • Pine was appropriate enough for a chauffeur.†   (source)
  • Her job was to review and file all the exit surveys left by the guests, make copies, distribute them to the appropriate people.†   (source)
  • I admit I'm overly logical about a lot of things, but I firmly believe that one of my most appropriate fixations has been to manage time well.†   (source)
  • He may or may not need to die, but if he does buy the farm, there's only one death symbolically appropriate to his situation.†   (source)
  • It's something appropriate, because you're kind of a wandering bird.†   (source)
  • So instead she tossed the omens, I observed their fall, and then I transmitted the appropriate words to her.†   (source)
  • He did not wish to trouble the manager, only to seek his advice, for which he would pay an appropriate fee.†   (source)
  • I believe a permanent reminder of this day might prove the appropriate remedy.†   (source)
  • Of course, SEALs train to match the appropriate level of violence required by the situation, turning it up and down like the dimmer on a light switch.†   (source)
  • Even some Baptists smoke on appropriate occasions.†   (source)
  • Tales were told at these places that people from all over now gathered to hear, for the tales of these natives felt appropriate to this time of migration, and gave listeners much-needed sustenance.†   (source)
  • Those were the words my mouth said because that's what I had been told was appropriate to say.†   (source)
  • That seemed a pretty appropriate slogan for snipers, so it became ours.†   (source)
  • Obviously it would not be very appropriate for a real philosopher to say they are all equally bad.†   (source)
  • He said no, he couldn't, it wouldn't be appropriate.†   (source)
  • With everything that is going on right now, a party is hardly appropriate.†   (source)
  • The three men were served in a style appropriate to their rank.†   (source)
  • My parents had no appropriate medication.†   (source)
  • Y.T. makes sure she's aimed directly at the glass revolving doors, then hits the appropriate toe switch.†   (source)
  • They adjusted the maps because there was no reason why the North should be placed on top, so far away from their beloved fatherland, when it could be placed on the bottom, where it would appear in a more favorable light; and while they were at it they painted vast areas of Prussian-blue territorial waters that stretched all the way to Africa and Asia, and appropriated distant countries in the geography books, leaping borders with impunity until the neighboring countries lost their patience, sought help from the United Nations, and threatened to send in tanks and planes.†   (source)
  • "I deployed with them, and I want to come back with them," I said, and my very good friend Mario, the officer in charge of Alfa Platoon, considered this to be appropriate.†   (source)
  • To move students through the system, many refugees were placed in standard classes that, while appropriate for their ages, did not take into account their lack of schooling or their deficiencies in English.†   (source)
  • I thought this very appropriate because I don't get noticed anyway.†   (source)
  • Then the committee would discuss each project and decide whether or not it was worthwhile, appropriate, and achievable.†   (source)
  • Our adversaries ...attempted to appropriate it, but I insisted yesterday we fairly captured it....I now request the band to favor me with its performance.†   (source)
  • Shaken to the very core, he could find no appropriate response to Sara Noriega's harshness, and he attempted to change the subject.†   (source)
  • So it was in everyone's interest to find an appropriate alternative solution.†   (source)
  • There ought, I thought, to be a ritual for being born twice-patched, retreaded and approved for the road, I was trying to think of an appropriate one when Doctor Nolan appeared from nowhere and touched me on the shoulder.†   (source)
  • So often that better time either never comes or really isn't better or more appropriate after all.†   (source)
  • If Jane got this job, she could teach Mrs. Blanck that a bell was a much more appropriate way to summon a servant than yelling.†   (source)
  • Take appropriate precautions.†   (source)
  • That would have been appropriate.†   (source)
  • You will put yourself to bed at the appropriate time and turn out your light.†   (source)
  • Not that it was an appropriate time to be acting all smooth and seductive or whatever, but surely something deeper was required here?†   (source)
  • 72 Above 26,000 feet, moreover, the line between appropriate zeal and reckless summit fever becomes grievously thin.†   (source)
  • I appropriated it with a clear conscience since it looked as if he were never going to get around to it.†   (source)
  • It was not an appropriate response, but he did not know what else to say; he was filled with a strange emptiness, a kind of stunned detachment.†   (source)
  • So you're not allowed to say 'appropriate.'†   (source)
  • Fool's gold or whatever the appropriate term.†   (source)
  • In that case, smiles are appropriate.†   (source)
  • The Harrison School District is pleased to encourage appropriate displays of patriotism.†   (source)
  • "It seemed appropriate," the farmer said.†   (source)
  • What she is trying to do now is to transform what her eyes grasp and her senses perceive into the simplest and most appropriate words she can find.†   (source)
  • The voices of Kroc's friends and coworkers — one of them identified as a McDonald's "vice president of individuality" — boom from speakers at the appropriate cue.†   (source)
  • An appropriate response, I think wryly.†   (source)
  • He argued that Fort Detrick was closer to the outbreak than was the C.D.C., in Atlanta, and therefore it was appropriate for the Army to have the samples and try to isolate the virus.†   (source)
  • Then it is appropriate to beat the wife.†   (source)
  • How appropriate.†   (source)
  • Shiva had appropriated the toolshed where we'd hidden the motorcycle.†   (source)
  • "We will definitely deal with this matter in the appropriate way, I promise," answered Ms.†   (source)
  • My mother was beginning to think it was high time to find an appropriate match for Hilda.†   (source)
  • I've brought all sorts of appropriate goodies.†   (source)
  • That settled, they then selected a gaudy array of jackets and slacks regarded as appropriate for what was to be, according to Dick, a Florida honeymoon.†   (source)
  • I collected the appropriate files while Miss Hastings retrieved Red Stevens' box from the vault.†   (source)
  • Now, though, as I took in the flat pastureland on either side of us, it seemed completely appropriate.†   (source)
  • Cedric nods solemnly at this-an appropriate response, he hopes— and Cornelius asks Cedric where he went to high school.†   (source)
  • July had appropriated Hutto's shotgun, loaded it and put it across his saddle—he assumed it would make the prisoners think twice before starting trouble.†   (source)
  • Yet while she so questioned, she was taking in with swift appreciation the trim set of the driving coat Miss Lydia wore, the appropriate texture of the heavy gloves on the small hands that held the lines, and a certain indefinable air of elegance hard to put into words, but which all women recognize.†   (source)
  • Although in the candlelight it was hard to be sure which cliché was a more appropriate description.†   (source)
  • And how do you know she'll be someone appropriate for you to fall in love with?†   (source)
  • He picked it up with some difficulty "How appropriate."†   (source)
  • Leaving a small force to keep the fires burning and make the appropriate noises of an army settling in for the night, Washington and some 5,500 men, horses, and cannon had stolen away in the dark.†   (source)
  • After the funeral her brother appropriated all their parents' property, and she, refusing out of sovereign contempt to fight for her rights, announced sarcastically that she was taking the bowler hat as her sole inheritance.†   (source)
  • There was nothing appropriate to say.†   (source)
  • "But," Farmer asked, "are they appropriate technology?"†   (source)
  • Still, just about every parent seems to believe that her child will thrive if only he can attend the right school, the one with an appropriate blend of academics, extracurriculars, friendliness, and safety.†   (source)
  • But would you say that, sir, even in the light of General Peckem's recent memorandum on the subject of appropriate military attire in combat areas?†   (source)
  • She's having her sister-in-law's granddaughter copy and scan the appropriate pages, and e-mail them to me.†   (source)
  • Once on the appropriate floor, you can program any number of scenario variables: environment, objectives, opponents, et cetera.†   (source)
  • I followed the other women into an ante-room, where we were searched for contraband and examined for appropriate dress.†   (source)
  • My ugly tweed librarian outfit was lauded as the most work-appropriate.†   (source)
  • Quite a sentiment, but appropriate and just, I think.†   (source)
  • Suddenly, Booker Sistrunk rose, and in his booming baritone said, "Your Honor, I'm not sure what's appropriate at this time, but I would like to suggest that my client, Lettie Lang, be appointed as the substitute executor to take the place of Mr. Amburgh.†   (source)
  • It is very appropriate then that from this cradle of the Confederacy, this very heart of the great Anglo-Saxon Southland, that today we sound the drum for freedom ...Let us rise to the call of freedom-loving blood that is in us ...In the name of the greatest people that have ever trod this earth, I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny.†   (source)
  • Some of the city legislators, whose concern for appropriate names and the maintenance of the city's landmarks was the principal part of their political life, saw to it that "Doctor Street" was never used in any official capacity.†   (source)
  • He was wearing a tight black T-shirt that, while not really appropriate for the frigid temperatures of early February, showed off his perfect muscular arms.†   (source)
  • Bigwig was trying to think of some appropriate reply to this when he saw Chervil running across the grass toward him.†   (source)
  • It was determined that Eledir would command the primary force of the allies' army—appropriate, given that it was comprised mostly of elves from the Blue Dragon.†   (source)
  • I had black and I had red, neither of which was an appropriate choice for the virgin coed the grand jury would expect.†   (source)
  • there's that word "conceive" again, appropriate as ever!†   (source)
  • The invitation sounded suspect, but Tanis couldn't think of an appropriate way to decline.†   (source)
  • He'd appropriated the raisins from the kitchen while on KP duty, he explained to Ranous.†   (source)
  • I'm capable of deciding what's appropriate for my family.†   (source)
  • I hurt you not long ago with a personal attack that was neither appropriate nor deserved.†   (source)
  • There was also the problem of finding an appropriate escort.†   (source)
  • They are also increasingly often being appropriated by some Hispanic and Asian Americans, and by middle-class white youths finding a covert prestige or generational protest in imitating black speech.†   (source)
  • How appropriate that the bridegroom she would have chosen to marry be poisoned.†   (source)
  • Even in my new, period-appropriate clothes, I felt transparently out of place.†   (source)
  • Given an appropriate musical setting, YOUR LYRICS could become a POPULAR SONG played on the radio waves all over America and even to our boys overseas.†   (source)
  • Miss Love turned to him and said in a flirty voice, "Mr. Blakeslee, don't you agree it's not appropriate for me to be called Mrs. Blakeslee?"†   (source)
  • Mu becomes appropriate when the context of the question becomes too small for the truth of the answer.†   (source)
  • Quite appropriate, don't you think?†   (source)
  • She is here at Spence as a scholarship student, sponsored by her wealthy cousins so that she might make an appropriate governess to their children.†   (source)
  • Tappan listened and smiled and made the appropriate comments, but he was no one's fool.†   (source)
  • Fame has seized her and appropriated her, name, barn, cows and all.†   (source)
  • Stone positioned the capsule and pressed the appropriate controls.†   (source)
  • Winnie would discuss "the church" in appropriate terms, and I might then ask, "How are the priests?†   (source)
  • The team supplied him with his uniform shirt and pants, but Sportland outfitted him with the thin white socks and special T-strap oversocks in the appropriate colors.†   (source)
  • When a departing Hollywood film crew forgot to pack its loudspeaker equipment, racetrackers appropriated the gear, fiddled with it, and soon fashioned the first race-calling public address system.†   (source)
  • Ofelia took to appropriating Celia's dresses and shoes.†   (source)
  • It seems pretty appropriate to me.†   (source)
  • I'll take you to the appropriate official, and you can tell him yourself.†   (source)
  • Since Stephen was born, I had become paranoid, not only as a parent sustaining him, but other fears like illnesses, late-night fevers, and getting him all the appropriate shots at the right time.†   (source)
  • We have just been granted a new and larger appropriation.†   (source)
  • This was entirely appropriate and reasonable.†   (source)
  • That had seemed appropriate when I had written it, but now I imagined what Snow Flower had done with her fan.†   (source)
  • By this time the social worker had got out too, and she said, "I don't think that's appropriate, really.†   (source)
  • Because I don't think that would be appropriate.†   (source)
  • Others follow in appropriate pecking order.†   (source)
  • His lips actually drew back in a snarl that would have been appropriate for his son.†   (source)
  • Finding an appropriate clearing, he hastily set up a small campsite.†   (source)
  • Hendrick, I could break your jaw ....and I simply would be responsible to my own superior officers as to the appropriate necessity of the act.†   (source)
  • I nod, and she stifles her own smile and continues in a more appropriate direction.†   (source)
  • A number of reasons, but mostly because we didn't really have an appropriate place to put them.†   (source)
  • I kept a finger of my right hand on the appropriate place in the text, flipped the Talmud to where the commentary had been printed, and read from it.†   (source)
  • The kimchee museum, he'd say, with appropriate awe.†   (source)
  • Although the Thirty normally used their own gang of thugs for such duties, the oligarchy asked Socrates to arrest Leon of Salamis so that he might be executed and his assets appropriated.†   (source)
  • And as Dr. Mansour had more free time, it had become his habit to spend most of the day in the department, which he would roam, observing what went on from a distance, and always intervening at the appropriate time.†   (source)
  • Law and disorder and murder do not seem to be appropriate topics of conversation.†   (source)
  • I'd watch him creep up into the woods to smoke a cigarette, and rack my brain for something appropriate.†   (source)
  • She looked quite stunning as she walked across the dining room to the table, not at all unlike a girl on the qui vive appropriate to a big college weekend.†   (source)
  • Ah, I have a beverage here which I have been saving for an, ah, appropriate moment.†   (source)
  • One skilled operator, like Luke, oversees several machines, performing on-the-spot quality checks and making appropriate adjustments as needed.†   (source)
  • The federal government would have to take appropriated funds from their proper objects to defend the States.†   (source)
  • But the first people to get treated, or to treat themselves by buying the appropriate materials, will get the materials that work and are painless.†   (source)
  • "Your mother made this for our wedding," he said, "and I thought it would be appropriate if I wore it to her funeral."†   (source)
  • "It's only appropriate, I suppose," he managed after a pause.†   (source)
  • What better and more ...appropriate way to start off ...the semester than by beginning ...with the highest point?†   (source)
  • People came to see the child, and I do not know what tales they told but more people came, their faces avid with curiosity to see him-a curiosity which was never sated although they stared and stared with bulging eyes; and they went away with appropriate comments on their lips and mouths bursting to describe the poor little albino mite they had seen.†   (source)
  • It was, she thought, an appropriate place to compose such a document, for the library had once been her grandfather's.†   (source)
  • I can, of course, imagine it being deconstructed nowadays as a paradigm of colonialism, with Kevin figuring as the benign imperialist (or the missionary in the wake of the imperialist), the one who intervenes and appropriates the indigenous life and interferes with its pristine ecology.†   (source)
  • So you been losing your whisky-Reds, and you been losing your White farmers, and all you got left is your soldiers, the river rats, and whatever money you can steal from the United States Army appropriation for peace-keeping in the west.†   (source)
  • Three hundred unjoined versions would circulate through the barracks by midnight, gathered and appropriated by cadets who were not present but who would claim they were, until the fight would enter into the history of that academic year according to joyous laws of storytelling where the annexation of myth becomes a form of truth itself.†   (source)
  • He had been at sea in his atomic-powered submarine on patrol between Kiska and Midway when the war began, and opening his sealed orders at the appropriate signal he submerged and set course for Manila at full cruising speed.†   (source)
  • They were clearly poised for flight; but I saved what was left of the situation by recalling appropriate Innuit words and blurting out a more or less formal welcome.†   (source)
  • I am curious why you did this thing, when there were so many more appropriate religions from which to choose.†   (source)
  • That is why I think it is so appropriate that I find myself tonight at a university which addresses itself to preparing young people for the challenge of tomorrow.†   (source)
  • It was a Polish structure: the barracks and buildings of Auschwitz made up the homely nucleus of a former cavalry installation when it was appropriated by the Germans.†   (source)
  • A number of liquid and semiliquid dishes in appropriate serving vessels were placed on the table in a prescribed arrangement, and containers with beverages were set out.†   (source)
  • Could the result be varied by conditioning or by the use of appropriate orchestration?†   (source)
  • It's more than most people deserve when they die, but it would have been so appropriate for Yurochka!†   (source)
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