Sentence examples for commandeered with from inspiring English sources

Actually, it has been suggested that, in the course of transforming from a proteobacterial endosymbiont to mitochondria, some of the pre-existing protein translocation apparatus of the endosymbiont appears to have been commandeered, with molecular chaperones such as mHsp70 and Oxa1 derived from the bacterial chaperones DnaK and YidC, respectively [ 3].

In 1945, the house was commandeered, along with the rest of the neighborhood, by the Red Army.

Dr. Dean is a scrappy if diminutive candidate who has commandeered attention with his antiwar platform and sometimes impolitic abandon.

Others, who got to the firehouse only to find there were no more vehicles, commandeered anything with wheels -- taxis, Red Cross vans, buses.

A hallway hung with wallpaper samples — the first thing a visitor sees — commandeered my attention with the instantaneous authority of great art.

Officials said hijackers with two handguns commandeered the Boeing 737, with 95 people aboard, soon after it took off Tuesday from Nyala in southern Darfur, near a refugee camp that the Sudanese military attacked Monday.

And the bass-baritone Bryn Terfel commandeered the stage with his vocally chilling and shockingly lusty Scarpia.

In Donetsk and Luhansk few bank machines still dispense cash and drivers risk having their cars commandeered by men with guns.

On Sept. 11, he commandeered a bus with some other officers, and died under the first tower collapse while digging out a fellow officer.

She sang "Getting to Know You" from "The King and I" (which Ms. Holm had commandeered on Broadway with Yul Brynner in 1952 when she briefly replaced an ailing Gertrude Lawrence).

Now Gísli Örn Gardarsson, the Icelandic gymnast who commandeered the stage with his elasticity and upside-down walking in Metamorphosis, has produced a response to Goethe's play which buries its story, and its human implications, in a welter of diabolic high jinks.