Each of these revenue sources brings a school district's local funding above the levels provided via direct appropriation from the county government. (ncpolicywatch.com)
Although he was initially dissatisfied with his technique and uncomfortable with direct appropriation, he took great pleasure in presenting well - known comic - strip figures in a fine art format. (britannica.com)
But for all the diversity of their plastic language, they perceived a common basis for their work; this being a method of direct appropriation of reality, equivalent, in the terms used by Pierre Restany, to a «poetic recycling of urban, industrial and advertising reality». (en.wikipedia.org)