Others complained about the commandeering of their church by the powerful.

There were also reports of looting and commandeering of cars by Congolese troops.

The captives were relatively free to move about, which aided their revolt and commandeering of the vessel.

There have been unconfirmed reports that dissident Iraqi security officials might have played a role in the commandeering of the plane.

There was more in the wind than the commandeering of horses and provisions, though that would certainly be done as they went, and done thoroughly.

Scheduled passenger flights are unlikely to be affected by the Pentagon's commandeering of 38 civilian jetliners.

He considers Pierce's commandeering of the tank to be a sensible action that took his fellow soldiers out of danger.

It approved massive arrests, occupation of important localities, and the commandeering of vehicles.

Picnic Bay also became a popular defence force rest and relaxation camp following the commandeering of a resort in the bay in 1939.

By late this afternoon, angered by the government's commandeering of television broadcasts, strike organizers said the work stoppage would continue into Wednesday.

That report also recommends vigilance, and appropriate software, to prevent or detect the surreptitious commandeering of computer systems for use in denial-of-service attacks.

Examples that proved this were "General Galleini's commandeering of the Paris taxi fleet to ferry soldiers to the front.

He had reported killing a Romulan officer whom he'd believed had come to the shuttlebay to transmit a message about the commandeering of Tomed.

But their commandeering of food supplies forced refugees and Filipinos to survive on cracked wheat and coconut milk, Mrs. Hershfield said.

Germans, it turns out, may be having a harder time than others at figuring out what to make of their recent commandeering of the common European policy toward Yugoslavia.

Later, seated on the warm cushions of the sleigh and skimming over the countryside, Harkins reflected proudly that his commandeering of the sleigh was a master stroke.

(The commandeering of some sash weights for use as miniature mortars eventually leads to Tristram's untimely circumcision by falling window, but that's getting ahead of the story.)

As part of Blue Note Records' commandeering of the city's jazz clubs through the month of January, this double bill presents a few of jazz's more interesting oddballs.

That is why these spots, and his commandeering of the funds, have drawn the opposition of the American Cancer Society, the American Heart Association and other anti-smoking organizations.

The outbreak of the First World War and the commandeering of Portman Road by the Army curtailed the 1914-15 season and organised football did not return until the 1920-21 season.

A well-known incident (class of 1971) of hooliganism involved many students and the commandeering of rafts to Tom Sawyer Island (now known as "Pirates Lair at Tom Sawyer's Island").

In it, Hodgson never describes the ghosts - if this is indeed what they are, since their true nature is left ambiguous - in any remarkable detail, he merely reports of their gradual commandeering of the ship.

Johnston's Motor Car is an Irish rebel song written by Willy Gillespie based on the commandeering of a motor car belonging to a Doctor Johnston by the Irish Republican Army.

The events dominating the women's lives were the commandeering of TWA Flight 355 shortly after it left La Guardia Airport on Sept. 10, 1976, and the placement of a bomb in Grand Central Terminal.

Sam led them into the office and commandeered a phone.

A conference room had been commandeered on the third floor.

They should have let us go by them, then commandeered a ship.

And whose ring will you commandeer when it is time?

I made a dash at them and commandeered their services.

Its second military helicopter had been commandeered by a general.

She must have somehow commandeered it and come after them.

I had commandeered my husband, Victor, and some friends to come along.

Was it still commandeered by a team of Russian ground forces?

So, and it was just sort of an extra room that I commandeered.

In 1914 the school's buildings were commandeered for use as a hospital.

The house he'd commandeered had little to recommend it, beyond its view.

There's ways for them to make tons of money just by commandeering the phone.

"Which one of my friends are you going to commandeer as escort today?"

"May I commandeer one of your policemen to take me to town?"

They commandeered our Church supply ship, just to get to you.

The Force could commandeer planes and weapons, whatever they wanted.

In the last couple years, construction workers have commandeered the river's banks.

She turned her chair and looked him in the eye for the first time since he had commandeered the ship.

These are the same men who commandeered one of my warships!

He had commandeered them late at night on the second day out from Bombay.

Then I finally commandeered a bus to take us to headquarters.

He might decide to stop and commandeer the phone at another farmhouse.

With a quick jolt, she thought of the data she'd commandeered.

Two groups of young people commandeered city buses to attack the troops.