David Gohlich, the company commander, said the house had been used as an insurgent base for the last five or six months after it was commandeered from a wealthy Shiite family, which was forced out.
She captured it in a plastic cup commandeered from a bar cart and liberated it in a planter on Vanderbilt Avenue.
Unable to formally rent a bicycle out, I aggressively commandeered one from my housemate to see how it worked out for me.
The crowd of fans went wild when the ball was commandeered from Rick Mirer to its rightful receiver.
A few hundred metres away, a group of young, aggressive and visibly drunk local men were jumping up and down on an armoured personnel carrier (APC) which they had commandeered from Ukrainian forces, trying intermittently to take it apart or start it.
Bruton is partly right: at this point, Eritrea's government is so short on finances that it would need to completely overhaul its economy and create a thriving private sector to pay for the labor the government currently commandeers from its citizens.
According to Tamara, Khalil commandeered money from I.N.C. funds and rounded up a convoy of S.U.V.s, which she herself led across the border into Iraq.
In "Shadows," Chenjerai Hove, 46, describes how some black guerrillas commandeered homes from their supporters and abandoned the children they fathered in rural villages.
Authorities commandeered backhoes from a nearby construction site and made a brief attempt to break into the casino's walls as smoke billowed from the main entrance, hindering firefighters.
Ken Lee, a 17-year-old hotel worker, sat on a gray plastic stool next to a row of safety cones — commandeered earlier from the police — that partly blocked the entrance to Queens Road, an important commercial street in Hong Kong.
