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requisitioned

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Past of requisition

Exact(60)

To avoid immediate hostilities, though, the Turks ostensibly bought the German ships (and the services of their crews), replacing two dreadnoughts that had been ordered from, but requisitioned by, Britain.Thus did Germany appear to gain a new ally, and Turkey a protector against dismemberment.

The vast ranges of new buildings grafted onto it by the first earl and stamped throughout with his freshly acquired heraldic devices were designed as a fanfare to his dignity, an apotheosis of venerableness.Knole was roughed up in the civil war and requisitioned by Parliament for its regional headquarters.

Palestinians fear that the same fate will befall the newly requisitioned lands.The first phase of the barrier has been bad but Palestinians fear worse to come.

On the day itself, May 26th, shops and offices were closed, and the government requisitioned vehicles from foreign aid groups to ferry ballot boxes around.

Although the Communists were told their buildings were being requisitioned for government use, Mr. Alusi said that he received no explanation on why he was being evicted.

And for the "defence" of these settlers, Israel has requisitioned some of the best farmland and water resources in the northern West Bank.

Most of the land for the wall has been "requisitioned for military needs" by the army.

But Dr Dehaene thinks the VWFA evolved for object recognition and is requisitioned for word recognition.

That meant labouring on government hydro-electricity stations or smashing stones on other building sites under-paid jobsites under-paidisitioned labour could fill.

During the war the steelworks mainly produced armaments and ammunition, and it went on doing so after 1944 when the Nazis requisitioned it from the Weisses, the Jewish family who owned it.

Occupying a temporary home since the defence ministry requisitioned its building, Iraq's parliament is a glaring example.

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