Sentence examples for were commandeered by from inspiring English sources

Later, according to this tradition, the books were purchased by a collector and taken to Athens, where they were commandeered by the Roman commander Sulla when he conquered the city in 86 bce.

Nearby buildings were commandeered by the army and mobile phone coverage was shut down in parts the capital.

On Friday morning, trucks, buses and cars were commandeered by armed men and used as roadblocks on several highways here, some of them set ablaze.

The crash was a tragedy for AA, which suffered grievously on September 11 when two of its planes were commandeered by terrorists during the bombing of New York and Washington.

For five hours, the streets were commandeered by nearly 100,000 people on bicycles — old and young, wearing spandex and silly hats, dogs and babies perched on handlebar baskets — in a celebration that produced a sight that once would have seemed inconceivable in this city of cars.

The United Nations investigation into the events on the ship, the Mavi Marmara, which was sailing under a Turkish flag and was the largest of six vessels that were commandeered by Israeli commandos on May 31 , 2010 was led by Sir Geoffrey Palmer, a former prime minister of New Zealand.

It had been commandeered by firemen.

That building has now been commandeered by the Iraqi Army.

Down below us was a wrecked BMW 7. It had been commandeered by the rebels.

These wild insects are being commandeered by us because they are such expert pollinators.

The computer, it turned out, had been commandeered by an intruder who was using it remotely.