Sentence examples for commandeer from inspiring English sources

For decades the concrete army had been allowed to commandeer all open spaces, and illegal encroachments had done the rest.

Ernesto said the students had gone to Iguala to commandeer buses to transport them to a future protest, a practice usually tolerated by the bus companies.

Mr Schelling concludes that such a world might have a dozen countries with "hair-trigger mobilisation plans to rebuild nuclear weapons and mobilise or commandeer delivery systems".

That looks like an effort by Vladimir Putin's government to commandeer Russian history and partially sanitise Stalin (though Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's "The Gulag Archipelago" is also taught in schools).

Now the bot-herders have learned to commandeer huge corporate or public-sector computers in America.

Their goal is to commandeer those telescopes quickly enough to study the fading light from the fireball that follows the gamma rays, in order to solve the long-standing mystery of what causes the explosions.That mystery was the subject of a recent conference entitled "The Brightest Explosions in the Universe", held in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The scale of the problem is astonishing: a man-in-the-middle (MitM in cryptographic jargon) could commandeer any secure connection from a Wi-Fi network in a coffeeshop up to the infiltration of an entire country, as exploited by certain governments and their agents in the past.Apple's coding error lies in how a secure connection is verified for websites and other internet services.

The police were so outgunned that they had to commandeer high-powered rifles from a local gun shop.

Those doubts will not stop the crowds turning out for him, even if he fails to commandeer the Brandenburg Gate as his backdrop.

Many of these junior officers would commandeer a chateau and leave their soldiers to sleep out in the garden, or they would send them to the front without them.

However, during CMB's previous franchise the government passed a law letting it commandeer the company's depots for its successors' buses.