| Ergo, the terrestrial or the Life of Nature ever the shadow and opposite of the Divine is appropriative, absorbing appetence. |
| Generally, western-dominated research has been seen as appropriative and inconsistent with Maori world views and understandings. |
| It was, and is, inherently wasteful, despite the proclaimed limitation of the appropriative right to an amount of water which can be beneficially used. |
| It is the appropriative words, thine and mine, which make this history different from any other history. |
| Because appropriative rights can be separated from the land and sold or leased, they can form the basis for private water trades. |
| It is Fevvers' ambiguity which allows her to elude the appropriative gestures of spectators and would be captors. |
