Sentence examples for requisitions and from inspiring English sources

A Jewish council, headed by Adam Czerniakow, was made responsible by the Germans for organizing the ghetto's Jews for slave labor, requisitions and soon worse.

He could be relied on not merely to do what Vichy and Berlin asked, but even to go further.And he was a busy man, in charge of traffic, petrol rationing, requisitions and Jewish questions.

Instead the main imperialist states decided to back the White counter-revolution, leading to a civil war that was won by the newly created Red Army, but at a terrible cost: the peasants had been alienated by forced requisitions and conscription.

Unusually, a brief paragraph in an account of the Anti-Rightist Campaign of 1957 describes widespread demonstrations, strikes and riots in late 1956, as people faced shortages of food and daily necessities, the result of forced state grain requisitions and failed industrial policies.

The Austrian Netherlands (now Belgium) and the left bank of the Rhine had been major battlefields in the war against the coalition, and French victories in those sectors were followed by military occupation, requisitions, and taxation but also by the abolition of feudalism and similar reforms.

For although the Committee of Public Safety was able to raise, equip, arm, and feed 14 armies and lead them to victory, it succeeded only by means of a mass levy, mass requisitions, and nationalization of military production measures that were based on the revolutionary government's use of force, that is, an authority relying on the Terror.

During its humble beginnings, the main task of the People's Commissariat of Finance were: confiscation of property, robbery and requisition; printing and creating money; and taxation.

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

The state could then manage grain production, requisitioning and distributing it by decree.

"If they can't help us, we will print out our requisition, and wheelbarrow it round," Clanchy said.

"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".