Sentence examples for were requisitioned to from inspiring English sources

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.

Marine Court was requisitioned, to be occupied by airmen and cypher clerks.

Abandoned military camps, hotels, sports stadiums, children's summer camps, parks and public buildings have all been requisitioned to house refugees.

As soil erosion results and both the crops and the fire in Robert's eyes begin to fail, it seems the Better Farming Train will be requisitioned to transport troops to another war..

Instead nobody even bothered to maintain the inadequate, overpriced station car park, until last year when half of it was requisitioned to create a car park for the O2, as the Dome is now to be known.

Mr Abdullah said that the army had been requisitioned to help in rescue efforts.

During the Second World War the bungalow was requisitioned to be used as a billet for troops, and nissen huts were erected in the grounds.

The main house had been requisitioned to provide a refuge for Jewish families evacuated from the bombed areas of the East End.

After the demonstrations, authorities were left to grapple with providing housing and compensation to approximately 2,300 villagers whose land had been requisitioned to make room for the copper plant.

Nevertheless, the exhibition halls at Olympia were requisitioned in August 1914 to serve as what the home secretary cheerfully called "concentration camps" for enemy aliens.