Sentence examples for of the requisitions from inspiring English sources

The historian Lactantius, who lived from 240 to 320, tells us that the problem was a bloated welfare state: "The number of [welfare] recipients began to exceed the number of contributors [taxpayers] by so much that, with farmers' resources exhausted by the enormous size of the requisitions, fields became deserted and cultivated land was turned into forest".

Rear areas were able to fill only about one third of the requisitions from the front for small arms in mid-August and resupply ceased entirely about the middle of September.

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.

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.

In a statement issued to the Stock Exchange on Wednesday, the club said: "The board considers that any decision on any proposal for the withdrawal of the requisition would be subject to the provision by the requisitioners of a vote of confidence and continued support for the current directors and to all necessary regulatory approvals".

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

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.

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.

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.

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.