s'approprier

Ils s'appropriaient trop de notre richesse nationale.
They were appropriating too much of our national wealth.
Ce n'est qu'en renversant la république par la violence, que ceux qui s'appropriaient la richesse pouvaient espérer faire supporter aux producteurs de cette richesse les frais d'une guerre qu'ils avaient eux-mêmes provoquée.
It was only by the violent overthrow of the republic that the appropriators of wealth could hope to shift onto the shoulders of its producers the cost of a war which they, the appropriators, had themselves originated.
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