| Expect troops to be sent across picket lines to commandeer the red fire engines. |
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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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| Elizabeth's childhood friend, Will Turner, joins forces with Jack to commandeer the fastest ship in the British fleet. |
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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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| 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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| 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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| The People's Liberation Army could commandeer an enormous range of civilian assets that would contribute directly to its capabilities. |
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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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| 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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| The Confederation is permitted to commandeer Swiss commercial ships in times of need in order to guarantee supplies for the country. |
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| Southern generals ordered rails torn up, bridges burned, and lacked the foresight to commandeer locomotives and rolling stock to other lines rather than destroying them. |
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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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| 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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| 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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| For decades the concrete army had been allowed to commandeer all open spaces, and illegal encroachments had done the rest. |
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| He also made frequent use of his power under article 192 of the telecommunications act to commandeer all the broadcast media at the same time. |
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| On more than 30 occasions, the government used article 192 of the telecommunications act allowing it to commandeer the TV and radio airwaves. |
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| In the mood to commandeer a Boeing 727 and demand half a million dollars in ransom? |
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| In his memoirs Borden indicated why the government decided to commandeer supplies, rather than buying them on the open market. |
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| The first thing he did was to commandeer three aircraft on display at the National Exhibition in Bern. |
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| Now the bot-herders have learned to commandeer huge corporate or public-sector computers in America. |
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| The 65 million girls out of school globally will never commandeer the world's attention in the same way as a war. |
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| Soon British soldiers commandeer their house, separate the girls from the boys, and relocate them. |
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| Nest building is sometimes interrupted by another flamingo pair trying to commandeer the nesting site for their own use. |
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| Ernesto said the students had gone to Iguala to commandeer buses to transport them to a future protest, a practice usually tolerated by the bus companies. |
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| Attack trade ships to loot their cargo or commandeer whole ships. |
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| No department of the government of Canada should be entitled to commandeer such information simply on the basis that some of it might prove helpful in some way, on some occasion. |
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| Trying to control and commandeer chaos is hopeless. |
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| But an air ambulance could not land near him due to bad weather and paramedics had to commandeer a furniture lorry. |
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| Hard to imagine this guy being able to commandeer an abandoned shopping cart, much less an imminent threat to destroy the peace of the planet. |
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| Savorani, from Imola, hijacked a jet in 1999 and tried to commandeer a train the year before. |
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| Downing Street said the Government was prepared if necessary to instruct the armed forces to commandeer more civilian tenders. |
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| Commandeer gun turrets, master death-defying flying escapes, and battle carnivorous beasts. |
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