Verb (used with object), : to arrogate the right to make decisions.    From Dictionary.com. 

More arrogated (and off-base) blather on your part.    From Wordnik.com.  [ABC: Secret Service Headed To Biden's House] Reference

As it is unjustly arrogated and usurped by man; whether, 1.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London] Reference

It is now long since the women of England arrogated, universally.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference

Have the mass media now arrogated themselves the role of the judiciary?.    From Wordnik.com.  [OUTRAGEOUS MEDIA REPORTING ON ANC CANDIDATES LISTS] Reference

Such a testimony was the more necessary, when the civil powers have arrogated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive] Reference

R arrogated to himself the right of reprehending every one who differed from him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 20, March 16, 1850] Reference

Warring States every powerful feudal lord arrogated to himself ten thousand chariots.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Works of Han Fei Tzu] Reference

He had arrogated to himself the disposal of his life, but it was made clear to him that.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shadow of the East] Reference

He had not merely arrogated to himself the powers he held and used with such aggression.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spitzer's Rise and Fall] Reference

That is what those who arrogated to themselves the status of slave-master sought to achieve.    From Wordnik.com.  [ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE SOWETO UPRISING ON 16 JUNE 1976] Reference

Certainly, none arrogated to himself the job of steering the economy by fixing an interest rate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is the Medicine Worse Than the Illness?] Reference

For decades, the United States has arrogated the role of convening Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Josh Ruebner: Top 10 Reasons for Skepticism on Israeli-Palestinian Talks] Reference

Similarly, Koizumi has arrogated much more economic decision making to his office than his predecessors.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man In Charge] Reference

The government it seems has arrogated unto itself two large advantages that private citizens don't have.    From Wordnik.com.  [Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery--or Is It?] Reference

He arrogated to himself ownership of all the water and the mines and sold quit-claim deeds to the land's owners.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mormon Settlement in Arizona A Record of Peaceful Conquest of the Desert] Reference

Powers arrogated to themselves the right to intervene across territorial boundaries to reverse the tide of history.    From Wordnik.com.  [O R Tambo - 1983] Reference

In its contingency planning it has arrogated to itself unspecified tasks for unforeseen situations during elections.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ballot Bullies] Reference

Mugabe told the diplomats that the judges had arrogated to themselves powers not bestowed upon them by the constitution.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The apostle further observes, that those who directed them to worship angels, arrogated a knowledge of matters not revealed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sermons on Various Important Subjects] Reference

European Powers arrogated to themselves the right to intervene across territorial boundaries to reverse the tide of history.    From Wordnik.com.  [NELSON MANDELA IS OUR SIMON BOLIVAR] Reference

He has arrogated to himself the title which expresses the highest thought of divinity known to the conceptions of the Chinese mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forty Years in South China The Life of Rev. John Van Nest Talmage, D.D.] Reference

Then, high status is used by the creators of these fabricated hierarchies to rationalize the privileges they've arrogated unto themselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Fuller: Somebodies and Nobodies: Understanding Rankism] Reference

After all, the Pretoria regime has now arrogated to itself the right to intervene militarily in all African countries south of the equator.    From Wordnik.com.  [APARTHEID AND THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY] Reference

I arrogated a small viewing machine, and scanned the centuries of the past in the hope that a sanctuary might reveal itself to my aching eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Day of the Boomer Dukes] Reference

Sometimes a crosier, or shepherd's crook, is substituted for one of the keys, in reference to his arrogated office of the leader of the sheep!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Astral Worship] Reference

Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and James Madison all saw the danger -- they never arrogated that power to the presidency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Martin Garbus: How Close Are We to the End of Democracy?] Reference

And that was one of the things that I'm pointing out in my book, that the courts have arrogated power to themselves that should be given to the legislature.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 1, 2004] Reference

It now has arrogated to itself the right to issue "Dead or Alive" posters for U.S. citizens who, in its arbitrary judgment, pose a threat to other Americans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Brenner: America's World] Reference

Borva; and even at this early stage, as they sat at the stern of the heavy craft, Lavender had arrogated to himself the exclusive right of waiting upon Sheila.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873] Reference

Uruj had arrogated to himself the title of King of Tlemcen, but with his death this shadowy sovereignty came to an end, and the Spaniards seized upon the province.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean] Reference

And she can't think things through because if she believes the VP should have more power than Cheney has arrogated to himself, she's a woman of increcible shallowness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biden Won, Because He Made Forceful Case Against McCain] Reference

The fact is that, even if the voters approve a two-term limit in November, the Commission has arrogated to itself the power to frustrate that decision for eleven years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Henry J. Stern: Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied] Reference