Appropriative rights did not limit the amount of water that could be claimed.

In the western part of the country, water ownership is controlled by the appropriative system.

Appropriative rights were based on a first come, first served philosophy.

And because reserved water rights are not riparian nor appropriative, they may conflict with state law.

Appropriative water rights granted the first to claim the water's use complete rights to it.

But even by Clintonian standards, this was a boldly appropriative speech.

Accordingly, when appropriative rivalry becomes too intense, we need to sacrifice a third party.

The settlers claimed appropriative rights after the reservation had been established, but before the tribe began to use the water.

Mr. Muniz then turned his teasing, appropriative eye to art history.

In its earliest form, an appropriative water right was created simply by taking water and putting it to beneficial use.

In addition, all appropriative rights are subordinate to riparians or earlier appropriators.

The label's feminine aesthetic has been criticized as disingenuous or appropriative.

Thus, historical appropriative rights might neglect consumers willing to pay more than current consumers.

Its ethos is acquisitive and appropriative; it seeks out the windfall.

Hurston once said that African-Americans are an appropriative people.

And I have no doubt that many Westerners are, to some degree, guilty of such appropriative excesses.

And in the solos, Balanchine has once more worked his appropriative, inventive way with material of a very different sort than ballet.

Others make a distinction between "productive" and "unproductive" or "appropriative" economic activities their starting point of analysis in peace economics.

California provides communities and other water users within watersheds senior status over appropriative water rights in limited circumstances.

Mr. Higgs's appropriative art plays with just such particularities.

Shortly thereafter, Californian courts recognized appropriative water rights.

In the end, the court recognized both water rights systems, but decided that appropriative rights were secondary to riparian rights.

But Art Deco quickly proved to be amazingly adaptable and omnivorously appropriative.

But does it follow from the geschichtlich character of interpretation, that- 4. all phenomenology is interpretative-historical and hence must be appropriative?

What made the solo more solid was the portrait it offered of a catlike dancer with a fiercely glittering gaze and an appropriative attack.