Sentence examples for requisitioned it for from inspiring English sources

As World War II approached, the institution closed and the building was auctioned; but before it could be sold, the Royal Engineers requisitioned it for their use during wartime.

The commander of a combat unit returning to the United States learned that the Skymaster had only one passenger and attempted to enter the C-54 to requisition it as transport for his men.

The Defense Department has long had its own rules for requisitioning its gear, as it retains the title to dispensed military hardware, but the Pentagon's Wright said the military only reclaims that gear "under very rare circumstances".

The Armory Show, New York's largest art fair, opened to the press under a menacing gray sky, with the Hudson river churning angrily alongside the two piers it requisitions for exhibition spaces.

The KPA has requisitioned those places for its own camps.

The college's library was looted and its sole building requisitioned for use as a military hospital first by American and then British forces.

Famine and disease spread as the British requisitioned food for their troops.

The bright spot: the LA Times Book Award committee and the American Library Association have requisitioned Uncovered for consideration for two literary prizes each.

When the task force advised Mr. Adler that his tatty ground-floor sanctum, with its beat-up desk, overflowing bookshelves (he collects signed copies of works by Y lecturers), and a timeworn conference table culled from his parents' dining room, had been requisitioned for a classroom and painting studio, he surrendered it without a peep.

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.