| The second, increasingly the main line of argument by gun-rights advocates, is that's it's necessary to prevent governments from arrogating tyrannical powers to themselves. |
| It is about opposing any state arrogating to itself the right to annex land. |
| In this, the government with a good majority is actually arrogating the powers of Parliament. |
| Neither in World War II nor in the Cold War did US administrations go so far in restricting civil liberties or arrogating unlimited power to the executive branch. |
| The moral is a lash at the vanity of arrogating that to ourselves which succeeds well. |
| As a mentality favourable to the aristocracy came to the fore in the 15th century, the magnates became ever more brazen in arrogating royal rights to themselves. |
