Arrogate in a sentence as a verb

Leakers, people who arrogate power in power vacuums, people who insult colleagues, people who break the law.

Those processes don't always work well, but that doesn't mean it's ok for one person to arrogate to himself the right to bypass them all.

I find it scary when people arrogate to themselves the right to injure others, and I doubt that it serves justice.

The virtue of Trump is that people are paying attention, at least: it's difficult for the government to arrogate more powers when people are paying attention.

How about everyone who knows everyone you know?By talking to each other; we render those who would arrogate to themselves the title of rulers, irrelevant.

It is the designation "middle class", alone, which is virtuous – a fact which explains in a nutshell why, famously, all Americans arrogate the term to themselves.

They don't need much more incentive to arrogate power; I don't think there is much hope in changing that calculus.>Let us speak no more of faith in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of cryptography.

Since they arrogated to themselves the roles of general contractor and system integrator...and also attempted to arrogate to themselves those future roles.

We arrogate unto ourselves the title of "engineer", despite the complete lack of licensure or regulation commensurate with every other industry whose professionals bear that title.

Language usage is not subject to revision or control by self-appointed intellectual fairness monitors who unilaterally arrogate to themselves such an authority.

These "branches" of government are all part of the same institution - the state - and the only competing they do is which of them can arrogate as much power to themselves as possible at the expense of the population, not at the expense of each other.

And how much have FogCreek, StackOverflow, and other companies that seek to greedily arrogate the entire creative output of their employees benefited from open source software began and continued as the very side projects this blog post cautions against?

On the other, "a true national cyber-defense capability, one that could detect and respond to threats against our national critical infrastructures in real time" sounds like a proposal to arrogate root access to all of the 'critical' computers at once, to some one central group.

When people are enlightened and can choose for themselves and govern themselves, the power of governments to arrogate themselves the power shall wither away - but the secretive regimes are fearing just that - they do not want their citizens to be informed or enlightened and are a regressive influence to the progress of humanity.

We commonly say somebody "has a sense of entitlement".I would not doubt that its a deliberate Republican talking point to use that word rather than "benefits" or "public assistance" in order to associate it with the psychological definition.> In clinical psychology and psychiatry, an unrealistic, exaggerated, or rigidly held sense of entitlement may be considered a symptom of narcissistic personality disorder, seen in those who "because of early frustrations...arrogate to themselves the right to demand lifelong reimbursement from fate.

Arrogate definitions

verb

demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to; "He claimed his suitcases at the airline counter"; "Mr. Smith claims special tax exemptions because he is a foreign resident"

See also: claim

verb

make undue claims to having

See also: assign

verb

seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession; "He assumed to himself the right to fill all positions in the town"; "he usurped my rights"; "She seized control of the throne after her husband died"

See also: assume usurp seize