The days of commandeering swathes of land without consultation and involving local people in the process are long gone.
"BLASPHEMOUS" was how the information minister described an article in the Zimbabwe Independent complaining about President Robert Mugabe's habit of commandeering commercial passenger jets for his own use.
Stingers are of no help to terrorists seeking to replicate the nightmare Sept. 11 scenario of commandeering airliners to ram them into buildings.
This is a relatively new cloud in the American sky, this practice of commandeering people in the arts for advertising and promotion.
Last year, the ruling alliance, between the Kenyan African National Union (KANU) and the National Democratic Party, pushed through an amendment to the Constitution of Kenya Review Act, which had the effect of commandeering the commission that the act had established.
But it is hard to find anything in his past that suggests he would soon be capable of commandeering airplanes and flying them out of the country without any cockpit training, much less without getting caught.
Kikuyus have a lot of land and many businesses, and members of the county's other tribes often accuse them of commandeering the government — the departing President, Mwai Kibaki, is Kikuyu — and of generally acting like a post-colonial master class.
In California, the P.C. police have been accused of commandeering the justice system: A childhood friend of Brock Turner, the Stanford swimmer convicted of three felony counts of sexual assault, called on the court to "stop worrying about being politically correct every second of the day and see that rape on campuses isn't always because people are rapists".
Mainly, the current court was concerned with whether the law represented an instance of commandeering by the federal government (basically improperly stepping on states' rights).
I'm thinking of commandeering her machine.
The other half are set to the terrifying late-night-on-the-waltzers style songs with hardcore synth stabs and thick jets of commandeering propulsion.
