Sentence examples for been commandeered to from inspiring English sources

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

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

The administration argued that the alien tort law had been "commandeered" to allow cases that had "no connection whatsoever with the United States".

Some groups of government workers slept on the streets because all public transport had been commandeered to move people to Castro-related activities.

And that means that all of its other talk shows, including "Dr. Drew" and "The Joy Behar Show," have been commandeered to pursue, as the channel's logo reads, "Justice for Caylee".

Conversely, the popular children's Ladybird series has been commandeered to explain topics such as evolution and climate change to adults (as reviewed by us here: http://go.nature.com/2ocfo0e), deftly capitalizing on the earlier success of entirely humorous adult Ladybird books.

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.

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

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

When a private car was commandeered to transport a machine gun, one of the civilians in it overheard an order "to drive everyone out and burn the colony".