Example Sentences

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Today, we have a priest who has disbanded the pastoral council and arrogated governance to himself and his staff.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 8, 2023

To Covington & Burling, the answer was clear: it lay with Congress, and, if Trump arrogated that power to himself, the firm was prepared to take on a lawsuit pro bono.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 24, 2018

He had arrogated to himself the privilege to call, and to assume the president would take his call.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 28, 2018

But journalists have arrogated it to themselves in disproportionate numbers.

From Washington Post • May 4, 2018

The free and open market was made a national monopoly, and British subjects arrogated to themselves all the exclusive privileges which had been "most mistakenly" reserved to themselves by other nations.

From A Short History of English Liberalism by Blease, Walter Lyon