Sentence examples for arrogate from high-quality English sources.

• So assured have the elite become that there is almost no block on the rewards they arrogate to themselves.

• As clans grew, the most successful families tended to arrogate to themselves claims to ancestry and territory.

• He has never raced outside California, but he did send one of his mares to Kentucky, to breed with a high-priced stallion named Arrogate.

• “But in the guise of stability they want to arrogate all power to themselves and restrict public space,” warns Rauff Hakeem, an MP and former minister who happens to be Muslim.

• Perishable, it attempts to arrogate to itself the prerogative of imperishable time, of separating good books from bad."

• It now seems clear that Erdoğan, who is sixty-three, intends to arrogate dictatorial powers to himself, have them ratified by a subservient political order, and stay in power for years to come.

• When, in the latter half of the 16th century, the Mughal emperor Akbar in India wanted to arrogate to himself the right of administrative–legal absolutism, the strong reaction of the orthodox thwarted his attempt.

• It is universally accepted that courts in democracies should not arrogate to themselves unrestricted legislative power, because the judiciary is rarely subject to the same democratic accountability as legislatures.

Use arrogate in a sentence.

• His supporters argue that he needed to arrogate more power to himself in order to modernise the country’s society and economy—proposing the sale of shares in the national oil company, for instance, to raise money to invest in a post-oil future, and liberalising the position of women.

• Whereas everything in the universe has a limited nature and every creature recognizes its limitation and insufficiency, human beings are viewed as having been given freedom and therefore are prone to rebelliousness and pride, with the tendency to arrogate to themselves the attributes of self-sufficiency.