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.
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.
But here, in this requisitioned pub at the fraying edge of the city, they clamour again for my attention and celebration.
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.
HSAs disbursed the same drugs, in the same packaging, as health facilities, and were to collect resupplies of drugs from their nearest health facility, which in turn requisitioned resupplies from national and regional medical stores.
Except for the original pewter in the bar (requisitioned by the Nazis in 1940) the restaurant has remained as it was, and to eat here, even for Parisians, is to experience the old days with regulars who've been coming for decades.
If more tests were requisitioned in 2000 2005 than in the years around 1980, similar rates of positive reports in the two periods would suggest less viral activity in 2000 2005 than around 1980.
Four acres of land at the end of Brean Down were requisitioned in 1862, with construction beginning in 1864 and completed in 1871.
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.
