Sentence examples for be commandeered to from inspiring English sources

That stopped the show because someone had to be commandeered to carve it.

After mentioning that houses or businesses can be commandeered to shelter victims or serve as medical dispensaries, it continues that "violations of individual property rights, if actionable, would generally be sorted out after the need for such actions has ended".

If an initiative is anchored too deeply in the existing organization, chances are that development efforts will be commandeered to protect the status quo rather than employed to adapt to a disruption.

So for nearly three weeks Britain's only high-speed train line will be commandeered to shuttle an estimated 10,000 spectators an hour between King's Cross in central London, the Olympic park at Stratford and a giant car park in Kent.

But also devices can be commandeered to do exactly what they are intended to do but in a devious way.

The finding, reported in the 15 June Current Biology, highlights how the genetic hard-wiring for one trait can be commandeered to create another over evolutionary time.

Less powerful rockets used by weather forecasters were commandeered to take the men supplies.

One practice was interrupted when the players were commandeered to help lay the drainage pipes.

The concept is so repellent to national sentiment that an English word has been commandeered to describe it: dumping.

His popularity is universal, but his death was commandeered to mark a milestone in African-American history.

Cars, buses and trucks had been commandeered to create 50-odd roadblocks in Jalisco and three neighbouring states; many were set alight.