Sentence examples for are commandeered by from inspiring English sources

However smaller record labels say they are struggling to get their releases on to shelves because the remaining vinyl pressing plants are commandeered by major labels to produce releases by big-name artists.

Italy says it is facing a continual problem with these boats, as the ambitions of thousands who want to make a life for themselves are commandeered by the ambitions of crooks and traffickers willing and able to make a quick buck.

Food handouts to the desperate civilians in the camps are commandeered by the fighters, who live on a meagre diet of USAID sorghum and whatever wild game they can shoot with their Kalashnikovs.

Food handouts to the desperate civilians in the camps are commandeered by the fighters, who live on a meager diet of USAID sorghum and whatever wild game they can shoot with their Kalashnikovs.

Much to my chagrin, I am resigned to a world in which the booths of bars throughout the globe are commandeered by balding blokes clinging onto dreams of being the next Baldelli.

An arts education might promise a life of self-discovery, but there has always been reasonably assured financial stability in the high-demand arenas of science, education, skilled trades, governments, etc. Surely that dynamic won't last much longer as more and more physical and mental human tasks are commandeered by machines and software.

Later, according to this tradition, the books were purchased by a collector and taken to Athens, where they were commandeered by the Roman commander Sulla when he conquered the city in 86 bce.

It had been commandeered by firemen.

That building has now been commandeered by the Iraqi Army.

Down below us was a wrecked BMW 7. It had been commandeered by the rebels.

These wild insects are being commandeered by us because they are such expert pollinators.