Sentence examples for they were requisitioning from inspiring English sources

"Watching him demand the numbers," Posokhov, whose grandparents died during the famine, told me, "I realized that that's what it was like in the early thirties when they were requisitioning bread".

Gneisenau and Potsdam had been built in the mid-1930s and operated by Norddeutscher Lloyd on its East Asia Service until the outbreak of war, when they were requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine as troopships.

The authorities were requisitioning their farmland for development.

It wasn't the only thing Germany and the Young Turks were requisitioning.

Many warehouses, empty factories and halls were requisitioned as living accommodation for the Servicemen (and women), but they had virtually nowhere to go when they were off duty.

Private cars, ambulances, trucks, delivery vans and taxis were requisitioned.

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

In a scene recalling Dunkirk, some 50 civilian ships were requisitioned for supplies.

Coffins were requisitioned from local hospitals because the morgue ran out.

Divers were requisitioned to examine the bottom of the river, with the result that the body of Rasputin was discovered.

Then, as now, the poor were requisitioned to fight the wars which enrich the few, dying and suffering disproportionately.