Sentence examples for the requisitioning from inspiring English sources

Further north in Porto, the country's second-largest city, district authorities activated an emergency plan granting authorities special powers such as the requisitioning of privately owned heavy machinery.

Kellogg Brown & Root would handle the requisitioning of equipment and some of the engineering.

The requisitioning of draft animals, for example, caused severe problems in villages that were already suffering from the enlistment of young men, and many recently created trade connections were ruined.

It seemed a good time to check in with Lauren Z. Asher, an up-and-coming Manhattan attorney whose livelihood necessitates the defense, rather than the requisitioning, of the ubiquitous black town car.

Food supplies were a continuing problem; the requisitioning of local food antagonized the peasantry; increasing dependence on the great Fulani clan leaders, who alone could put substantial forces into the field, alienated the non-Fulani.

His return to London was greeted by a hostile press, which seemed all of a piece with the requisitioning of his magnificent country house, Goldenhurst, and the bombing of his London home.

Studies in selected districts of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh have shown that only 75% of the requisitioned food is usually doled out to the children.

On 15 October 1917, the requisitioned all American passenger ships over for use by the government in the war effort.

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

Had he arrived sooner, when the Russians requisitioned the hotel right after the war, he would have noticed that the Soviets turned the restaurant into horse stables.

Within a few months, the Germans requisitioned the spitaki and Dodo moved back to her old house.