M. H. Gadhavi, an official in the Kutch district of Gujarat, estimated that 25,000 soldiers have poured into the dry, relatively unpopulated district, many of them arriving on trains requisitioned from paying customers.
At the local library, I pored over documents and microfilm I requisitioned from the Library of Congress.
Coffins were requisitioned from local hospitals because the morgue ran out.
The puppyish love triangle hovering around the battleship Oklahoma has been requisitioned from "Titanic," albeit minus the first-class amenities.
Morris had borrowed from the French, requisitioned from the states, and also advanced money from his own pocket.
Whoever wins, Karzai will still be living just a stone's throw from the presidential palace, in a property requisitioned from the United Nations and currently under renovation.
Those caught up in these sweeps were either airlifted south or transferred by land, sometimes in vehicles the authorities had requisitioned from international relief agencies.
This takes into account the proportion of civil servants in expert careers, career longevity, staff requisitioned from other agencies and average salaries.
Following the October Revolution of 1917, the imperial collections became public property, and the museum was expanded in the 1920s with art requisitioned from private collections.
Requisitioned from a stash of prison officers' private notebooks going back many years, the document is yellowed with age, smudged and unclear.
Others come as a shock: the kettledrums that sound like cannon fire; the piercing insistence of a piccolo that seems to have been requisitioned from Napoleon's army.
