Exempel på commandeered

• The arrival of passengers in quarantine had not been commandeered by the authorities, it had just been delayed and the journey continued.

• When it became occupied, he was able to continue his schooling, but no longer as a boarder, since his lodgings had been commandeered by the occupying troops.

• After a great deal of persuasion he was induced to score, then a pencil was commandeered and for a few minutes the unfortunate scorer kept his promise.

• The soldiers had their arms taken away and their vehicles were commandeered and used to build barricades.

• It has commandeered the premises and furniture of thousands of hotels, boarding houses, holiday camps and so on.

• Horses were commandeered and bought in very large numbers.

• Take, for instance, the question of the ships that have been commandeered.

• They commandeered not only all that was necessary for national purposes but the whole of the crop and resold part of it for civil use.

• My attention has been called to that case, which is rather peculiar, owing to the fact that the school has been commandeered.

• We ought to endeavour to liberate as far as possible, and also to utilise to better advantage, the shipping that has been commandeered.

• Enormous prices were paid, too, for grain which was commandeered.

• Will they be commandeered vehicles or will their own vehicles be issued to them?

• It must be wrong that schools in reception areas should be commandeered.

• Privately-owned railway wagons are not commandeered, but wherever possible such a wagon in returned loaded instead of empty.

• It has just been commandeered by the colliery company, and we cannot go near it.