Sentence examples for has been commandeered to from inspiring English sources

The concept is so repellent to national sentiment that an English word has been commandeered to describe it: dumping.

Thus, in these serpins, RCL cleavage and the S to R transition has been commandeered to allow for ligand release, rather than protease inhibition.

This morning at 6 AM, in what is now becoming a regular dawn chorus, gigantic booms woke locals living on the west side of Donetsk, as mortars rained down in the area around Kalinina hospital, which has been commandeered to treat wounded rebel fighters.

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

The administration argued that the alien tort law had been "commandeered" to allow cases that had "no connection whatsoever with the United States".

Some groups of government workers slept on the streets because all public transport had been commandeered to move people to Castro-related activities.

And that means that all of its other talk shows, including "Dr. Drew" and "The Joy Behar Show," have been commandeered to pursue, as the channel's logo reads, "Justice for Caylee".

It later transpired that this was the band, who had left their wagon when it had been commandeered to carry the injured Huskisson.

Most of the time there was a renegade family holed up inside, but other times the house had been commandeered to quarter demolition workers.

But regardless whether of chondroitin or of chitin origin, an ancient chondroitinase enzyme sequence seems to have been commandeered to catalyze the cleavage of the new hyaluronan substrate.

It said: "We are concerned that the decision not to commission has increased anti-immigrant prejudice and has been commandeered by those who wish to inflame tensions about immigration for political gain".