Sentence examples for ordered to switch from inspiring English sources

Most ministers were ordered to switch seats although Foreign Minister George Papandreou, credited with thawing Greece's relations with Turkey, retained his post.

In my case, I had been routinely using a normal metal detector checkpoint, when I was ordered to switch lanes and instead go to one of the new machines.

According to inmates and jail officials, when two of the Chinese women were ordered to switch bunks and did not understand, guards knocked them to the ground and handcuffed them, bloodying one.

Later, Mr. Mandela lobbied to let the rugby team keep the name Springboks while other national teams were ordered to switch to Proteas because the antelope was also the symbol of the apartheid-era army.

The gunmen had clearly planned to take photos of the carnage, mid-siege, and transmit them for publication on ISIS channels, but, when they snatched smartphones from survivors for this purpose, the 3G signal proved flimsy, so the restaurant staff was ordered to switch on the Wi-Fi network.

In World War II, the Grotrian-Steinweg factory (like many others in Germany) was ordered to switch to fabricating parts for aircraft.

"It was practically an order to switch to diesel.

Trying to take charge, King gives the order to switch off his wife's life-support machine.

In order to switch Sergei Nemchinov to center between Patrick Elias and Petr Sykora, he inserted McKenzie at left wing with Scott Gomez and Alexander Mogilny.

But she clamped the line before Barnard issued the order to switch off the heart-lung machine.

By Paul Ford March 30 , 2014Few things look more dictatorial, these days, than issuing orders to switch off parts of the Internet.