But no individual can arrogate that right to himself. From LearnThat.org. [yourdictionary.com]
Verb (used with object), : to arrogate the right to make decisions. From Dictionary.com.
I have to admit that I looked up the definition of "arrogate," which means "to claim or seize without right.". From Wordnik.com. [Fund Managers Are Not the Cause of Rising Fund Fees] Reference
There are those who arrogate to themselves such liberty. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals] Reference
How did He dare arrogate to himself such a dominion as that?. From Wordnik.com. [The Jericho Road] Reference
Do not let us arrogate to ourselves such opportunities as these. From Wordnik.com. [A Librarian's Open Shelf] Reference
We cannot attempt to arrogate to ourselves the wisdom which we do not possess. From Wordnik.com. [ADDRESS BY THE DEPUTY PRESIDENT, THE HON MR T. MBEKI, NATIONAL YOUTH SUMMIT] Reference
The Parisians, excluding all others, arrogate to themselves the only knowledge of divinity. From Wordnik.com. [In Praise of Folly] Reference
We, therefore, cannot be supposed to arrogate for the nobility any separate privilege of patriotism. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843] Reference
Men as vile as crime can make them, will arrogate to themselves the right to judge and censure others. From Wordnik.com. [A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin or, An Essay on Slavery] Reference
How is it that they arrogate to themselves the right to visit such destruction on Iraq, and then Iran?. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Smiley: The End is Nigh] Reference
In giving these outlines I do not mean, fellow-citizens, to arrogate to myself the merit of the measures. From Wordnik.com. [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference
No institution nor individual can arrogate to themselves the title of repository of wisdom and knowledge. From Wordnik.com. [ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA TO THE ANNUAL DINNER OF THE FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS ASSOCIATION] Reference
But let us not arrogate to ourselves a superiority of virtue, which in reality we have no just right to claim. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Are other people's spiritual affairs of no account, or do we arrogate to ourselves a monopoly of such matters?. From Wordnik.com. [Pan-Islam] Reference
Some exponents of Christianity would go further and arrogate to her the inception of all arts and handicrafts. From Wordnik.com. [Pan-Islam] Reference
He should be accessible and flexible; and not arrogate to himself the status of being the source of all wisdom. From Wordnik.com. [SPEECH BY DUMISANI MAKHAYE, ANC NEC MEMBER, OPENING THE ANC CONFERENCE OF THE MPUMALANGA PROVINCE] Reference
Self-appointed pressure groups arrogate unto themselves a patina of rectitude, which is mostly utterly undeserved. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
He/she should be accessible and flexible, and not arrogate to himself the status of being the source of all wisdom. From Wordnik.com. [ANC CHALLENGES OF LEADERSHIP IN CURRENT PHASE] Reference
This king dared arrogate a law absolute unto himself; its statutes, his own caprices; its canons, his own pretensions?. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
England will never consent that another country should arrogate the power of annulling, at her pleasure, the political system of. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History: The European War from the Beginning to March 1915, Vol 1, No. 2 Who Began the War, and Why?] Reference
First you arrogate and absorb "virtually the entire world population" to your cause, now Schopenhauer, and both with facile ease. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Some people arrogate to themselves the choice to do both, apparently not thinking that the rules of etiquette apply to themselves. From Wordnik.com. [Election Central Morning Roundup] Reference
As with others, you know how to arrogate with great facility - yet you fail to evidence much of an ability to think and reason well. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Bhuiya and it comprises Gonds and Kols, but the claim of the Pauris to the dominion they arrogate is admitted by all; even Brahmans and. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
Art may justly claim great latitude in this endeavor, and schools and systems arrogate too much when they seek to define its limitations. From Wordnik.com. [The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 6, June, 1884] Reference
And the Supreme Court has told us that whenever there is a move to arrogate power from one branch to another, that that destroys liberty. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 25, 2006] Reference
This footman, if he does not arrogate too much to his own confidence, was the first man distinguished by carrying and using a silken umbrella. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 572, October 20, 1832] Reference
If he can not hold in subjugation human beings, he will arrogate unto himself the rights of others and use them to further his own selfish ends. From Wordnik.com. [Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro] Reference
But for the courts to arrogate to themselves functions which properly belong to the legislative bodies is all wrong, and in the end works mischief. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
Why has every totalitarian regime in history tried to arrogate to itself responsibility for bringing up children and remove it from the family and civil society?. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Is it that there is some other "right" that Israel's detractors find more compelling or a legitimate that they arrogate to themselves? if so, spell it out, please. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
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