How To Use Commandeer In A Sentence
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Doing the humane thing—i.e., something good for the people of Haiti or Bosnia or Kosovo—could also be the smart and, to use the word commandeered by critics of such policies, the realistic thing, since it was good for the United States to avert instability in the Caribbean and the Balkans.
The Great Experiment
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The pickup driver complied with the police order, but quickly fled from the truck, pulled out a handgun and commandeered a passing 2003 Toyota Corolla with two occupants.
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Sports centres and army barracks have been commandeered as shelters.
Times, Sunday Times
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Others have not be able to return to their land and houses that have been commandeered by the military as High Security Zones.
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The soldiers commandeered vehicles in the capital and occupied the television station.
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The ministry should take the lead to commandeer the general public to clean up public places like schools, bars, markets and taverns which form the core of a high-risk reference point before the rains.
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There were, for example, many local officials around the country who commandeered transport to bring voters to polling stations.
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The three were arrested on Saturday after the newspaper reported on Friday that Mugabe last week "commandeered" an Air Zimbabwe
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Dafoe plays a computer mastermind who seeks revenge on his former employer by commandeering a luxury cruise ship.
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The only to commandeer a man can be violent memories, is the live better.
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Everyone is commandeered for the task of kepping Tibet alive until our homeland is restored
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When the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes invades the body, it commandeers its host cell's actin cytoskeleton to invade other cells.
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To keep supplies and equipment flowing into the theater, local laborers were hired and combat troops were commandeered to offload ships.
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The soldiers commandeered vehicles in the capital and occupied the television station.
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The People's Liberation Army could commandeer an enormous range of civilian assets that would contribute directly to its capabilities.
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They had laid cash, including a hefty tip, on the silver plate, and commandeered an unused dessertspoon to act as a paperweight.
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Sports centres and army barracks have been commandeered as shelters.
Times, Sunday Times
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Five small ships were commandeered without incident, but soldiers rappelling from helicopters onto the deck of the Marmara, with some 600 passengers on board, were attacked by several dozen activists armed with bars, slingshots and knives as they landed on deck one by one, according to video footage released by the military.
Israel's Deadly Flotilla Raid Ruled Legal
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Through the day, about 800 black-clad militiamen with Kalashnikovs and RPG launchers have been patrolling city streets in commandeered police vehicles.
Running back?
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Philadelphia officers kill East Germantown man after a chase Police officers shot and killed an East Germantown man Saturday night after he rammed one of them with a car he had commandeered from a Chinese-food delivery driver, authorities said.
Phillies Zone
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‘THE Army and police will commandeer coaches and trains to move hundreds of thousands of Londoners out of the city in the event of a massive terrorist attack’.
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Mugabe had "commandeered" an Air Zimbabwe plane to go on holiday.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Since there is no single, definitive resource regarding SOA, the term SOA has been commandeered to represent the interests and agendas of many; such is the problem of de jure standards.
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The second incident occurred on the same day when a vehicle was commandeered by a group of nine refugees who forced their way into the vehicle.
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It reopened to the public yesterday after it was commandeered two years ago for a US military base.
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It used this influx of cash to help build up its war-machine, it commandeered aid vehicles for its own purposes and, by diverting aid supplies, helped feed its armies…
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He had figured on commandeering the pilot berth but the Airedale had already reclaimed territorial rights, now snoozing peacefully.
CORMORANT
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The soldiers commandeered vehicles in the capital and occupied the television station.
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Henderson and two chums often commandeered the kitchen there on a Sunday and cooked cassoulet for 200 of their closest friends.
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But RCTs were developed to forestall irrational medical exuberance and "cast doubt on clinical enthusiasms about new treatments," he argues, not to demonstrate "treatment effects of dubious significance," the inverse use for which the pharmaceutical industry has "commandeered" RCTs.
Is A Bipolar Disorder Diagnosis the Latest Mania?
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What other company director, though, can pick up a telephone and commandeer the back pages of the next day's newspapers?
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A young U.S. officer, whose unit had commandeered the house, saw them coming and barked: "Go on, go on! Beat it!"
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In 1856 Congress authorised the annexation of any uninhabited or unclaimed island from which guano could be recovered, and more than seventy Pacific and Caribbean islands were commandeered in the next thirty years.
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An impatient mob broke down the doors, took possession of the station, and commandeered the trains without paying their fares.
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But after I told Neil I had been a volunteer at the Commonwealth Games and done boxing reporting he immediately commandeered me to do more work.
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Dafoe plays a computer mastermind who seeks revenge on his former employer by commandeering a luxury cruise ship.
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These laws already give police sweeping powers to take control of services and commandeer buildings and equipment.
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Through brute necessity, we realized that there are a lot of things you can fix, commandeer, or re-tool on the fly, and that sometimes the best stuff happens that way.
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There I would wait once more while he collected his props, and perhaps his thoughts as well, and when he appeared at length, all chipper with a kind of postorgasmic glow, we would drive back to work in the same commandeered vehicle while he regaled me with tales of great paydays of the past, in Gallipoli and on the road to Mandalay.
An Autobiography
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The large coiled springs and unfamiliar machinery tempt one to try to commandeer the thing and ride it into another era.
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The Cubans commandeered the plane and flew it to Miami
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First he gets kicked out of two different militaries, then he illegally commandeers an army base, and then he loses the capitol of the world.
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Sports centres and army barracks have been commandeered as shelters.
Times, Sunday Times
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He's been administering to officers with supplies commandeered from a nearby pharmacy.
Archive 2005-09-01
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Doug Eskew is simply a rock as George and holds the stage with aplomb, which is not easy to do when Brenda Braxton is commandeering it as Billie, the heart and soul of the show.
Michael Giltz: Theater: New York Musical Festival (NYMF) Roundup
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Spammers sometimes use this form of malware to commandeer computers and turn them into spam-sending drones.
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She remembered when Syrup and she had been recruits in the army, learning the basics of war and commandeering a ship together.
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Far murkier is what did they believe they would accomplish, these modern-day kamikazes with their box-cutters, their commandeered jets and their insane visions of vengeance?
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After emerging from a manhole he commandeered a car from a woman.
Times, Sunday Times
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The general commandeered the entire column and Cooper found himself deploying this massive force for action.
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They had all this food they commandeered from the local people.
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Chandler and his control team were commandeering juggernauts to block off the dock piers one at a time.
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For make no mistake, terrorism is the enemy of the state, out to destroy the state or to commandeer it for evil purposes.
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They want to be able to say that they did not commandeer us, but they know that they can trust us not to be really impartial.
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Expect troops to be sent across picket lines to commandeer the red fire engines.
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Instead, he commandeers a couple of people who are at an even lower level than himself, people he can lead, raise up to his level and, if necessary, then reject.
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Some houses were commandeered in the village, and a fierce volley of fire was opened up, as rifles, revolvers, and hand-grenades were utilised.
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Even the state sovereign immunity and anti-commandeering cases seem to comport with the Republican Party platform.
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Local Afghan truck drivers were commandeered to transport between 200 and 300 prisoners in each container.
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They will be given the authority to enlist any member of the public to help civil defence staff and to commandeer equipment or strategic buildings.
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She has assumed the role of a musical Charlie Chaplin trapped in the giant gears of Modern Times, as well as a keyboard-sampler artist with the deadpan efficiency of Buster Keaton commandeering The General.
Rodney Punt: Annie Gosfield in Concert -- The Industrial Age Goes Avant-Garde
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On January 8, 1880, a group of over 150 miners commandeered a train and forced the conductor to take them to Hawks Nest without pay.
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In fact, in a span of less than a decade, Barbary Coast corsairs plundered nearly 500 merchant vessels, commandeering the ships and selling the crews and passengers into slavery.
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The house and the estate owned by the Cracroft Wilson family was commandeered by the U.S. army.
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During his long reign he commandeered nearly a seventh of the land area.
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There is a New York City cop who lost friends in the attack and who has been commandeered to accompany people on these boat rides, three times a day.
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Myeloski had then insisted that they commandeer the seats on either side, thus ensuring them of privacy on the journey.
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In the photo above, by the way, notice the phrasing of the caption describing how they "occupied" -- rather than "took over" or "commandeered" -- the building linguistically connecting the actions of this militant element to the name of the non-violent movement.
Michael Shaw: Reading the Pictures: As Agitators Occupy Occupy, Will Media Call It Out?
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The little girls in school with him played princess, and they would commandeer him because he was nice and he would go along with it, and make him into their frog-prince, or, more often, the big-bad-wolf.
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It reopened to the public… after it was commandeered two years ago for a US military base.
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The only to commandeer a man can be violent memories, is the live better.
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Striking workers and the local population have commandeered over three dozen oil wells to force negotiations for a bigger share of oil revenues.
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But commandeering my computer for an entire week in order to hector me into giving them more personal information is unconscionable.
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Even some of the armored vehicles had been knocked out with salvaged grenades and commandeered bazookas and anti-tank weapons.
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The police commandeered a passing car to help in the emergency.
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Still under fire, they moored at the north shore, and when Davies had tossed overboard the igniter from the ferry engine and commandeered ten gallons of its surplus gasoline, they took the steep, soft road up the bank in
WHOSE BUSINESS IS TO LIVE
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In such a highly competitive field as the hunt, turnout was considered so important that women forsook their dressmakers and commandeered their husband's tailor, bootmaker and hatter to ensure that their appearance was perfect.
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Although such promises pose as progress and commandeer for themselves the slogans of progress and progressive thinking, viewed historically they are nevertheless a regression to an era antedating the novum of Christianity, a turning back along the scale of history.
Politics
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Some of the preexisting protein translocation apparatus of the endosymbiont appears to have been commandeered, including molecular chaperones, the signal peptidase, and some components of the protein-targeting machinery.
3 recent reports use evolution to study mechanisms of antibody diversification - The Panda's Thumb
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Truck bombs, commandeering of commercial aircraft, and credit card fraud appear to have been the primary tools used by those who have done us great harm.
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Now, at press time this group remained unsanctioned by the student union, so your seeing them at Clubs Days is dependent on their commandeering another club's table.
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The golden era of football presentation came in the mid-70s when Jimmy Hill, a man with just the right strain of informed and energetic egomania, would commentate on a game, commandeer a private plane back to west London on which his greying beard would be touched up with mascara and then passionately analyse the match you'd just seen him commentate on.
Sky generation is beginning to miss Richard Keys and Andy Gray | Barney Ronay
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He manages to escape the barren planet, commandeers a starship, and seeks to exact his revenge on Kirk.
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Mumbling and spewing obscenities as he staggered about the stage - which he had commandeered by threatening to beat up the previous M.C.
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The army was checking reports that troops had commandeered a house inside Zone A territory.
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After waiting hours, they learned government officials had commandeered their buses to evacuate others.
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Oliver Cromwell commandeered the school for his military government in Scotland, and is even reputed to have fired on Edinburgh Castle from the grounds in 1650 before turning it into a military hospital.
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When Burberry's distinctive check pattern was commandeered by C-grade pop stars, the label fought back by launching a limited-edition clothing line.
MAXIMUM LUXURY
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After emerging from a manhole he commandeered a car from a woman.
Times, Sunday Times
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But did they pretend to naval power beyond such dictates, or occasionally commandeering the resources of English merchants trading with Scandinavian, Flemish, or, later, Gascon ports?
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I'm considering commandeering a bicycle and hying myself to the nearest military base.
T2®: THE FUTURE WAR
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For our ride back down the mountain, we were able to commandeer a covered jeep to carry a few of our more beleaguered compatriots, but the rest of us begrudgingly climbed back into the rear of our now-notorious truck.
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Well, I got into German territory all right, and then a skellum of an officer came along, and commandeered all my mules, and wanted to commandeer me with them for his fool army.
Greenmantle
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Other stand-out tracks included the listful Into the Blue With Me, and the commandeering The Captain Needs A Ship.
Evening Mail news round-up
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This stance gives him maximum elbowroom to interpret religion as primarily a delusion (as implied by the title), like the parasitic worm that commandeers ants by burrowing into their brains (the first example of the book).
David Sloan Wilson: Atheism as a Stealth Religion V: Ineffective, Silly, and Worse
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The Japanese defence ministry commandeered the country's supply of abaca (hemp).
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In the case of a political crisis or a state of war, the government can commandeer state-owned aircraft, although on this occasion it was a request.
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Chechen hijackers commandeered a Russian passenger jet to Turkey in protest.
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The only to commandeer a man can be violent memories, is the live better.
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I made the mistake of thinking that they had given up and commandeered my favorite inflatable raft to float me around the pool.
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As we waited for the Federal attack through a cold, dense fog, I was commandeered by General A.P. Hill to act as a courier for him as well as General Stuart.
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The police commandeered a passing car to help in the emergency.
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Chandler and his control team were commandeering juggernauts to block off the dock piers one at a time.
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Elizabeth's childhood friend, Will Turner, joins forces with Jack to commandeer the fastest ship in the British fleet.
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The limousine driver was exactly where we left him, and I commandeered him to drive us to my place.
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The Union campaign was going to commandeer wagons to haul their supplies but found fewer than 50 wagons in the entire valley.
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But her enthusiastic account of the local food scene made such an impression on programme producer David Pritchard that he commandeered her for part of the film.
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A power utility manager was kidnapped along with two guards, by armed men who commandeered their car, tribal agency officials said.
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In spite of the total lack of personalia and in spite of normal-sized beds, it was clear that they had commandeered the nursery.
Murder to Go
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Meanwhile, in an end run, our guest had commandeered the clicker.
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So, after some plotting, the pair commandeer an ice cream truck and hit the road with granny chilling in the freezer.
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Well, I got into German territory all right, and then a _skellum_ of an officer came along, and commandeered all my mules, and wanted to commandeer me with them for his fool army.
Greenmantle
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Two light cruisers were being built in Italy but these were commandeered by the Italians in December 1941.
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Neither of us are particularly good to start with, and most of the pool had been commandeered by the local hippos to do some kind of water aerobics, leaving just two crowded lanes for the swimmers.
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Hijackers commandeered four passenger jets.
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He hoisted himself onto a seventeenth-century shuffleboard table, commandeering it as a speaker's platform.
BABYCAKES
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Somehow, the cast had managed to take over the bar, commandeering almost every chair in the place as they crowded around a group of tables squashed together.
