Sentence examples for to commandeer for from inspiring English sources

After two years of planning, gloating and wild threats, 44 of the 1,000 EDL members in London on Saturday briefly got to set foot in Tower Hamlets, as they scurried the few metres from their broken down coach onto a TfL bus the police had to commandeer for them to stop them getting lynched.

Mr. Murillo said the students, who attended a teachers college in Ayotzinapa in the Pacific state of Guerrero, had traveled to Iguala to commandeer buses for transportation to a protest in Mexico City.

After a flight attendant insisted that the family take their assigned seats — which caused the children to cry, since they were separated from their mother and sitting between strangers — Ms. Black ultimately managed to commandeer seats for the three of them together, but only after the entire plane had boarded.

The lovely cloudless day made it easy for the community to commandeer the space for any and all purposes.

For instance, the January edict insists, "No man shall make any resolution that involves 'watching his waistline.' " The October man law states: "In a pinch, it shall be perfectly acceptable for a man to commandeer female clothing for Halloween costuming purposes".

Woe to him who, like David, tries to commandeer that space for himself.

In 1946, local farmers resisted the War Office's attempts to commandeer the area for training.

But they argue "the dangers of forcing companies to denigrate the security of their products and of allowing law enforcement to commandeer consumer devices for surveillance purposes is too great".

"Tonight, Matthew, I'm going to be… Doctor Who!" Although there's little danger of Capaldi resembling a middle-aged man living out his teenage delusions amid a cloud of dry ice, the new Doctor is still going to need to commandeer the part for himself.

Another is to commandeer local buses for the students' use.

The September Media conference is generally used to present the new iPods, but as All Things Digital reports, Apple plans to "commandeer" the conference for its official iPhone announcement.