arrogates

“Scientism,” Dawkins tells me later, “is the pejorative word sometimes used for the view that science can explain everything and kind of arrogates to itself the privilege of explaining everything.

ID/Evolution 2009

Oleg's hypocrisy is on abundant display at all times and we can all see it, especially as he arrogates to play thread cop or complain to moderators (here) about standards of decency.

About: The Progressive Diminishment of Man 2010

The sum of the two bills arrogates that you can fully define an ethnicity, and just as ambiguously as Arizona claims to be able to identify what an illegal immigrant looks like, it also now claims have the ability to explain how an ethnicity produces resentment among others.

MJR Montoya: Fractures in the System: How Arizona Has Forced the Divide between the Ethnic and the Civic 2010

Let's leave aside the United States 'long history of supporting murderous dictators (including the one whose brutal rule paved the way for the Ayatollahs' take over of Iran), a fact that Friedman is required to implicitly ignore every time he arrogates to himself and to America the right to tell everyone else how to behave like real democrats and act on the "side of angels," as he clearly imagines himself to be.

Jonathan Weiler: Tom Friedman Calls the Kettle Black 2010

The sum of the two bills arrogates that you can fully define an ethnicity, and just as ambiguously as Arizona claims to be able to identify what an illegal immigrant looks like, it also now claims have the ability to explain how an ethnicity produces resentment among others.

MJR Montoya: Fractures in the System: How Arizona Has Forced the Divide between the Ethnic and the Civic MJR Montoya 2010

If I choose to support Obama or any other candidate (s), it's because he meets my criteria, not because someone else arrogates to tell me what I ought to do.

Study: Obama Dramatically Outspent Hillary On TV Ads During Campaign 2009

There is no way of overestimating the challenge that the emergence of ALBA and the overall reawakening of Latin America pose to the role that the U.S. arrogates to itself as lord of the entire Western Hemisphere.

Rumors Of Coups And War: U.S., NATO Target Latin America 2009

It's also that Mike arrogates the right to judge who is and who is not "pro-science" according to his own idiosyncratic standards.

Be Nice, Happy, Quiet, Meek 2007

Lose sight of that and you have a situation where the state, however you interpret that, ends up dangerously drifting towards a position where it arrogates the right to determine belief itself.

'Faith in the Public Square', lecture at Leicester Cathedral 2009

The state arrogates to itself the duty of punishing the criminal.

Energy and Society~ Chapter 13~ The Enlargement and Concentration of Political Power 2009