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commandeered

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Past of commandeer

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Then they commandeered the necessary materials and a marker pen to create bright placards bearing slogans about Sir Philip and his tax responsibilities – material too libellous to repeat here.

Was your TV screen commandeered for family films?

When I was back in London during the summer, about 30 of my close and extended family commandeered the basement of Pizza Hut after visiting an art exhibition, and as we violently exchanged views across the table, while the young kids ran around it, I couldn't have been happier.

Nearby buildings were commandeered by the army and mobile phone coverage was shut down in parts the capital.

Those centenaries have also resonated far beyond, for Diaghilev famously commandeered the most lively and inventive genius from art and music as well as dance, creating a new collaborative form of dance theatre that seemed as quintessentially modern as the new century.

Props to film industry writer Scott Feinberg, who has once again commandeered a fascinating series of articles where Academy members candidly reveal their thinking behind their Oscar votes – in all its woolliness.

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

Spill the Beans was closed, having been commandeered by Origins Worship, a religious group that meets there every Sunday morning for prayer and teaching.

She commandeered Central Bank reserves to finance government spending, leant on the national statistics agency to falsify inflation data and tried to break up media groups critical of her government.She is hardly the only Argentine leader to have acted in a high-handed manner.

In 2006 it said the air force could not shoot down a plane commandeered by terrorists even to prevent a greater disaster.

George Bush routed the Taliban after September 11th because al-Qaeda had, like a parasitic brood, commandeered the Taliban state in order to organise and train for global jihad.

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