Sentence examples for of the requisitioning from inspiring English sources

As the Soviet Armenian historian Bagrat Borian wrote in 1929: Such was the degree and scale of the requisitioning and terror imposed by the local Cheka that in February 1921 the Armenians, led by former leaders of the republic, rose up in revolt and briefly unseated the communists in Yerevan.

Little is recorded over the divisions within Hale Barns, but Hale and Hale Barns did emerge from the Civil War more or less untouched by events – though there was a heavy tax to pay to support the Parliamentarian army they avoided much of the requisitioning of supplies and animals for passing armies.

Further north in Porto, the country's second-largest city, district authorities activated an emergency plan granting authorities special powers such as the requisitioning of privately owned heavy machinery.

Studies in selected districts of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh have shown that only 75% of the requisitioned food is usually doled out to the children.

The lieutenant was posted to the engine room of the requisitioned ferry, and was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal (DSM) for his efforts.

Referring to a September 29, 1914 document for the requisitioning of a shipload of oil cake, the German Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, Baron von Wangenheim (1912-1915), boastod to Morgenthau that he had requisitioned the lot by the steamship Derindje for the German Government.

This file contains more information on the requisition of the equipment, details and illustrations of the custom enclosures, description of the power and telemetry systems, and illustrations of the field setups.

Profits steadily increased, and the company made several compensation claims for the requisitioning of its facilities.

His return to London was greeted by a hostile press, which seemed all of a piece with the requisitioning of his magnificent country house, Goldenhurst, and the bombing of his London home.

There is no neat continuity between London's history of grassroots alternative housing and Corbyn's startling call for the requisition of private property for displaced residents.

In the village of Maxinzhuang in Shunyi, one of Beijing's rural districts, hundreds of peasants have been protesting for the past month over compensation for the requisition of their land to build a water-sports complex for the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008.