There were, for example, many local officials around the country who commandeered transport to bring voters to polling stations.
Nine prisoners overpowered security guards at the Supreme Court building, and commandeered vehicles to make good their escape.
We're in a side street out of town, not far from Barcelona airport, where La Cubana has commandeered what looks like an outsize lock-up garage.
The army was checking reports that troops had commandeered a house inside Zone A territory.
It reopened to the public yesterday after it was commandeered two years ago for a US military base.
The house and the estate owned by the Cracroft Wilson family was commandeered by the U.S. army.
Others have not be able to return to their land and houses that have been commandeered by the military as High Security Zones.
After waiting hours, they learned government officials had commandeered their buses to evacuate others.
Ward and his video crew, afraid they'd miss out, commandeered an inflatable raft and shoved off downstream.
The general commandeered the entire column and Cooper found himself deploying this massive force for action.
Surgical teams worked flat out performing intricate grafts on the victims in the four operating theatres commandeered for the emergency.
It could have been invented for some other purpose, and then commandeered by the rationalizers of slavery.
I made the mistake of thinking that they had given up and commandeered my favorite inflatable raft to float me around the pool.
The limousine driver was exactly where we left him, and I commandeered him to drive us to my place.
Even some of the armored vehicles had been knocked out with salvaged grenades and commandeered bazookas and anti-tank weapons.
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.
Local Afghan truck drivers were commandeered to transport between 200 and 300 prisoners in each container.
To keep supplies and equipment flowing into the theater, local laborers were hired and combat troops were commandeered to offload ships.
Henderson and two chums often commandeered the kitchen there on a Sunday and cooked cassoulet for 200 of their closest friends.
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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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.
The makeshift chariots were pulled by Iraqi horses commandeered from looters in the area.
They had laid cash, including a hefty tip, on the silver plate, and commandeered an unused dessertspoon to act as a paperweight.
Striking workers and the local population have commandeered over three dozen oil wells to force negotiations for a bigger share of oil revenues.
Some houses were commandeered in the village, and a fierce volley of fire was opened up, as rifles, revolvers, and hand-grenades were utilised.
A power utility manager was kidnapped along with two guards, by armed men who commandeered their car, tribal agency officials said.
Chechen hijackers commandeered a Russian passenger jet to Turkey in protest.
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.
In essence, Milchan has commandeered a billboard to give us back the openhearted sensation of endless light.
On Tuesday, rebels used commandeered Syrian Army tanks in a skirmish with Mr. Assad's troops.
Well, it always used to be the women teachers in our school who were commandeered into washing the cups and saucers.
Rounding a corner he found the road blocked by tons of gravel scattered by three commandeered tipper trucks.
They ran out of ammunition because they were terrible shots so they commandeered more bullets from the farmer to finish off his birds.
We live in an age where weapons of mass destruction can be transported in suitcases or commandeered with a knife.
The seamen from HMS Excellent were tasked to take over, piling arms and improvising drag ropes from lengths of rope commandeered from the railway station.
Nearby buildings were commandeered by the army and mobile phone coverage was shut down in parts the capital.
The Europe of innovation and the information society also need to be commandeered to reach this target.
It commandeered most of what the RCN had to offer, six destroyers and seven Corvettes alongside seven RN destroyers and four Corvettes.
With the outbreak of the First World War, she was commandeered by the British Admiralty and designated a hospital ship.
As a result, everything that floated from Boston to New Orleans was commandeered to transport gold diggers and their supplies.
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The Japanese defence ministry commandeered the country's supply of abaca.
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?
On October 14, 1783, a week after his pub date, Webster commandeered the front page of The courant.
One nabob even seems to have commandeered the challenge to reignite an old grudge.
Meanwhile, in an end run, our guest had commandeered the clicker.
Henry Thompson was a court officer who commandeered a van and raced to the towers with two of his co-workers.
They had all this food they commandeered from the local people.
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.
The hijackers, who commandeered the plane to Mogadishu, had demanded the release of members of the BaaderMeinhof terrorist group imprisoned in Germany.
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.
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.
During his long reign he commandeered nearly a seventh of the land area.
Then they commandeered the necessary materials and a marker pen to create bright placards bearing slogans about Sir Philip and his tax responsibilities – material too libellous to repeat here.
The bus was commandeered but the children were released unhurt.
Props to film industry writer Scott Feinberg, who has once again commandeered a fascinating series of articles where Academy members candidly reveal their thinking behind their Oscar votes – in all its woolliness.
Lieutenant Robert Maynard of HMS Pearl was given command of two commandeered sloops, to approach the town from the sea.
To make up for this loss, the Portuguese captured and commandeered five ships from Gujarat that were sailing between Malacca and Sumatra.
As the scavengers drew near, the Portuguese attacked and commandeered both their craft and crew.
Nonetheless, it remains unclear whether these pathways comprise non-classical transduction components or include classical components, commandeered to elicit chemotropic responses.
For his residence Haig commandeered Beaurepaire House which was a few kilometres SE of Montreuil.
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During the Second World War, the United States Navy commandeered the services of Bartlett and the Morrissey for hydrographic and supply work in Hudson Bay and Greenland.
By making sure that ownership of the network is distributed across the community as a whole we can make it as difficult as possible for the network to be commandeered.
Dutch expatriate Marcus Zandhuis commandeered popular Long Street night club Fiction. Partygoers in orange t-shirts lined the balcony and spilled into the buzzing street below.
Once they have commandeered a vessel, the pirates direct the captain to head for busy sea lanes and, using the captured vessel's radar, they are able to monitor ship movements up to 60 miles away.
Its offices have been commandeered by soldiers and Mr. Papathanassiou said it would take a few days to ascertain the extent of the threat to women and children.
However, the CRM also observed that the Council, which has never been commandeered by the government, lacks the material and human resources to fulfil its task effectively despite the committed dynamism of its chairman.
Notional restraints such as no-fly zones nearby nuclear plants are to no effect once an aircraft has been commandeered and the terrorist attack is underway.
Upon the outbreak of the Second World War, most of the Moor saw renewed activity, as it was commandeered for the use of military training.
The only problem with being shedless was what to do with the clutter from the garden. For a few years I commandeered the kitchen.
During the First World War, the entire complex was commandeered by the German army, when the attic provided sleeping facilities for members of the German marine.
It later transpired that this was the band, who had left their wagon when it had been commandeered to carry the injured Huskisson.
Was your TV screen commandeered for family films?
After crashing into the wall of a tunnel at the airport, he then commandeered a limousine bus, ordering the driver and a busman off, and drove away.
Instead of touring trophy rooms of Huddersfield Town and the Huddersfield Giants, the pair headed for the pitch and commandeered the tannoy system near the players' tunnel.
When Fregoso was in due course himself toppled, he fled to the harbour, commandeered four galleys and launched himself on a whole new career as a pirate.
The soldiers commandeered civilian vehicles to help transport the injured.

Food hoarding is an offence and the food is commandeered and the hoarder punished.
If Linux is compromised, our defenses could be disabled, spied on or commandeered.
Four years ago, terrorists commandeered four jetliners and killed nearly 3,000 people.
The fire brigade brake was commandeered to carry the search-parties.
The lone man armed with a knife was reported to have commandeered the jet soon after it took off from Istanbul on a flight to Cairo.
The vessel is a reconstruction of the slave ship that was commandeered in Cuba in 1839 by 53 African captives, 35 of whom eventually were returned to their homeland.
The hay and the spring corn, of which Alpatych said there had been a remarkable crop that year, had been commandeered by the troops and mown down while still green.
Mrs Fuller, 44, commandeered the ambulance that was left running outside the JFK Medical Centre in Atlantis after she went into the hospital seeking a lift to the jail.
It was a dastardly act far from the perverted, suicidal heroics of the days when, as Grimonprez reminds us, the Japanese Red Army commandeered airplanes with samurai swords.

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