Sentence examples for hijack by from inspiring English sources

It too was conducted as a hijack by the government with no public discussion.

The risks of a hijack by cliques and factions with a particular axe to grind are high.

Records you can Hustle to include: "Ease On Down the Road," by Consumer Rapport, from the Broadway musical "The Wiz"; "Hijack," by Herbie Mann (There's another version by a group called Barrabas); and "The Hustle," by Van McCoy.

Conversely, Roser worries that the fact that, by many measures of development, capitalist democracies have been successful, makes this long-term data analysis susceptible to hijack by free-market evangelists.

If Occupy Wall Street can continue to behave with nonviolent restraint, if it can avoid hijack by a flaky fringe, if it can shake the center-left out of its funk, if it can embolden Democratic politicians (very much including President Obama, who, lately and belatedly, has begun to show signs of fight), then preoccupied Main Street will truly owe OWES.

The answer is that management in the 1980s was subject to an ideological hijack by Chicago economics that put at the heart of governance a reductive "economic man" view of human nature needing to be bribed or whipped to do their exclusive job of maximising shareholder returns.

It has been hijacked by technocrats.

Medicine has been hijacked by business.

Harmony has been hijacked by the public".

This shouldn't be hijacked by politicians".

It was hijacked by terrorists.