Members of Congress have no power, indeed they have no rights, to arrogate to themselves the power to nullify an election absent such a compelling threat.

CNN: Transcript: Opening statement of Rep. Nadler

No individual or states can arrogate to themselves special privileges, nor can they disregard the rights of others and, through influence and pressure, position themselves as the "international community".

NPR: Transcript of Ahmadinejad's U.N. Speech

If they have differences with a nation or state, they drag it to the Security Council and as claimants, arrogate to themselves simultaneously the roles of prosecutor, judge and executioner.

NPR: Transcript of Ahmadinejad's U.N. Speech

Backed by their powerful subject associations, science, history, mathematics, languages and other subjects arrogate to themselves as much compulsory curricular time as they can manage, forcing everything else to the margins.

BBC: Viewpoints: National curriculum in England

Although an agency may flesh out the interstices of a technical regime, that discretion does not entitle the agency to arrogate to itself purposes outside the statutory provision it is applying .

FORBES: D.C. Circuit to EPA: Rules Must be Neutral, Not Aspirational