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

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.

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

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

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

Given the ability of intracellular S. aureus to commandeer the autophagy pathway to create a replicative niche, it is uncertain whether autophagy-inducing therapy will improve clearance of the bacteria.

Finally, in the 1920s, Connecticut Light and Power commandeered thousands of acres of countryside to create energy-producing Candlewood Lake, which submerged homes, farms and cemeteries under dozens of feet of water.

Around this time, thanks to a California drought, the Z-Boys began scouting rich peoples' houses to commandeer (and sometimes drain) their swimming pools to create proto-skate parks.

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.

To create TransMilenio, the city commandeered two to four traffic lanes in the middle of major boulevards, isolating them with low walls to create the system's so-called tracks.

One theory is that the program is an attempt to create software engines for sending spam by using unprotected computers that have been surreptitiously commandeered by the virus.

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