Sentence examples for in a requisitioned from inspiring English sources

Such a motley gathering in such an inappropriate residence – it was as if we'd been thrown together by fate, like multinational refugees in a requisitioned wartime mansion.

There is glitz enough in what remains: a dazzling cabaret of sequinned hotpants, crotch-hugging bell-bottoms and boozy Allied Forces socials in a requisitioned palazzo in the Second World War, while Sarah Connolly's Medea does what operatic heroines do and becomes a monstrous icon of herself.

One afternoon this summer, near a front line in West Raqqa, I sat in a requisitioned residence with Ali Sher, a thirty-three-year-old Kurdish commander with a handlebar mustache and the traditional Y.P.G. uniform: camouflage Hammer pants and a colorful head scarf tied back pirate-style.

They were usually married to men they did not know, could inherit nothing, and could even be bought and sold, like chattels.Fired with her task, she raced in a requisitioned Jeep round Tokyo, borrowing other countries' constitutions from war-battered libraries.

She finds him in a requisitioned house previously owned by an architect named Stephan Lubert (Alexander Skarsgard), who remains living in the attic with his daughter.

Streeck was born just outside Münster in a room requisitioned by the state from a shoemaker.

In 1949, she resided there, with him, in a house requisitioned for military use, furnished and maintained by military authority.

Whoever wins, Karzai will still be living just a stone's throw from the presidential palace, in a property requisitioned from the United Nations and currently under renovation.

The five had been shut up in a house requisitioned by the rebels; two were removed from the room, and when the Seleka returned, they were carrying buckets with blood in them, said Mr. Mahoroka, adding that he later managed to leap from the rebels' pickup truck.

The Romans built an amphitheatre here larger than the Colosseum, and when in 1944 Adolf Eichmann pitched camp in Budapest, he requisitioned a Danube-side villa with its own stable of white stallions and an amphibious car.

Last year, the authorities in Karachi requisitioned containers from shipping companies to create a protective barrier around President Asif Ali Zardari's residence in Karachi.