Sentence examples for requisitioned and from inspiring English sources

During the Occupation, horses were requisitioned, and men were called up for forced labor in Germany.

This lag time between an item being requisitioned and a remote status being returned directly affected the operational readiness of Naval fighter squadrons.

"Scores of Mayfair's mansions were requisitioned and turned into offices" during the blitz, said Peter Wetherell, managing director of the Wetherell real estate agency in Mayfair.

During World War II, when the Germans invaded France, Derain's home was requisitioned and his preliminary blocks for Pantagruel were locked away for several years.

"Despite having requisitioned and drawn the roughly $50 million invoiced by Pinnacle," the suit says, "Swig shorted Pinnacle $14 million, keeping these funds in his own company, Falcon".

Farmers whose lands lay in the path of armies on the move saw their cattle and sheep killed for food, their horses requisitioned and their barns used for the troops' accommodation.

Ordinary Egyptians suffered from the effects of inflation, requisitioning, and conscription, and the intelligentsia and the professional classes were frustrated by restrictions on personal freedom and by the evident British intention to convert a temporary protectorate into a permanent colony.

The soldier had walked to the next farm and requisitioned their horse and taken off in the general direction he thought his platoon had gone.

They were in a Canadian museum and requisitioned for sale and sent to a Paris auction.

The war provided the mafiosi with new opportunities for self-enrichment when the Italian Army requisitioned horses and mules in Sicily for the cavalry and artillery.

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