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Clearly, no country can arrogate to itself the right to sell those resources.

A single secret service has the weapons to arrogate to itself complete political power.

He knew, with shame, how her father had been a man without arrogating any authority.

I spent days being grilled, the price of arrogating command.

Why does he arrogate to himself the claim to know more about patient care than all those professionals?

He began to arrogate more power to himself at the shah's expense.

Far be it from me to arrogate to myself the attributes of the Deity.

This 60-vote standard for judicial nominees has the effect of arrogating power from the president to the Senate.

I believe we should not arrogate to ourselves the competence to regulate the way they use their time.

Why do you seem to arrogate to yourself the right of sitting in moral judgment on me?"

He soon arrogated to himself the whole power.

As chief of my company, I arrogate all responsibility."

He arrogated, regimented and centralized political authority on a massive scale.

From the eighth century onwards, the Church arrogated to itself the power to create kings.

"A parent-surrogate is arrogated the same rights as a parent," she said severely.

He arrogated nearly all major decisions to himself, and established the chancellorship as the clear focus of power in Germany.

Does the director arrogate full control and responsibility, or do they concede that ultimate status to the writer/text?

It must be safeguarded, particularly when times are dangerous and the temptation to arrogate power is the greatest.

They cannot, however, be allowed to arrogate to employers powers to dismiss unreasonably.

A mere ensign had arrogated to herself the responsibility for humankind's survival.

The Church is only arrogated by one.

No one is entitled to arrogate to himself the right to utilize it unilaterally and preventively.

A Russian czar arrogated to himself a title of Constantine's.

In our view this is not helped by the role which the Union is arrogating to itself in the peace process at the moment.

"Do they think they are lords of the earth, to arrogate to themselves the authority for such an action?