Sentence examples for it commandeered from inspiring English sources

It commandeered social policy during Mr Blair's administration.

It commandeered the oil fields of eastern Syria and is selling oil to the Syrian regime.

When ISIS swept in, in 2014, it commandeered the American-funded equipment.

And if you were lucky enough to work there, it commandeered your life... [but] it was never meant to last.

He gave the show props onstage for curating a space for all users watching live to tweet  and then actually integrating the viewer tweets it commandeered (under hashtags like #neverthat) into the show.

Sinit, Mr. Stewart said, does something unexpected: it uses the commandeered machines to form a peer-to-peer network like the popular Kazaa program used to trade music files.

It only ended when Israeli aircraft struck one of the commandeered vehicles after it crossed the border.

Lieutenant Robert Maynard of HMS Pearl was given command of two commandeered sloops, to approach the town from the sea.

The commando originated with the Boers in South Africa, where it was the administrative and tactical unit "commandeered" by law.

Last December, a drunk commandeered a bus and drove it for two hours, eventually making his way to Kennedy Airport.

So it was no surprise that events in Iraq commandeered Americans' remote controls, radio dials and newsstand purchases like no other story in 2003.