commandeer

1 “The Burning Shores” begins with the dictator, Muammar Qaddafi, surely one of the most flamboyantly eccentric rulers ever to commandeer a country.

2 In helping Marion recover the seed corn commandeered in lieu of punitive taxation, Robin takes his first steps into excusable criminality.

3 “I hope you don’t mind me making myself at home,” Walter says to a couple whose kitchen stove he has just commandeered, after materializing from the alternate dimension in which he lives.

4 Tip commandeers her mom's car and sets out to find her.

5 Editors’ Picks And some on campus have come to question whether student demonstrators are also trying to evade consequences for flouting rules, commandeering academic buildings and repeatedly using protest chants that some of their Jewish peers have described as painful and threatening.

6 For my 21st birthday at Smith College, my friends and I commandeered a classroom and projected the movie.

7 From Al Shabaab in Somalia to illegal armed groups in Colombia, the problem of militants commandeering food assistance is not new but it is a sensitive topic for charities behind aid deliveries.

8 Still, I understand your desire to behave appropriately and not commandeer other people’s parties.

9 And the festival commandeered the downtown pub Penn Social as a hub for filmmakers and attendees to find information, charge phones, hang out and bump into each other.

10 Either way, he’s off a few seconds later, commandeering a pair of bicycles to whisk him and the children through the sky to … where exactly?

11 Touring was arduous and they had to bring home hard currency, most of which was commandeered by the state management organisation, Pragokoncert.

12 Though they enjoy having an envious audience from time to time, like when they commandeer the dance floor at a party, they exist largely in their own hermetically sealed world.

13 Nick Alexander, who leads a daring rescue mission against Arab terrorists to free a commandeered plane.

14 If the creature is after revenge, you begin to wonder, why does he not commandeer a jet and lumber after George W. Bush and Tony Blair?

15 Previously commandeering Chapel Street’s pubs, churches and art spaces, this year’s DIY meeting of Manchester’s underground tribes will take a new format as the action is concentrated across five stages on Regent Trading Estate.

16 The organisers set off across London, seeking any open - topped vehicle to commandeer.

组织者纷纷出动遍寻伦敦，征募任何趟篷交通工具。

17 The only to commandeer a man can be violent memories, is the live better.

独一可以刁悍地并吞一个汉子的回想的，就是活得更好。 。

18 The soldiers commandeered the houses.

士兵们征用了民房.

19 Triumph the Insult Comic Dog reports from the conventions, photobombs Anderson Cooper and commandeers a Westboro Baptist Church demonstration.

20 The early snow was commandeered as its advance guard.

1 侵占

incursionary disseizin encroachment misappropriation encroach convert pocket annex overrun disseize accroach

2 征募

conscribe draft enroll conscript

3 强取

extortion extract extort mulct exacting extortionate rapacious extortionary exaction sweat hijack

4 扣留

detention attach intern

5 霸占

arrogation seize sequester monopolize arrogate usurpation assume jump grab usurp dispossess

6 征用

requisition embargo expropriate press conscript impressment impress call into requisition condemnation conscription conscribe levy confiscate indent expropriation co-opt bring into requisition lay under requisition place into requisition put in requisition

7 征发

requisition conscription

8 强征

exaction impressment

9 强占

annex conversion seizing dispossess convert deforce racket spoliation disseise co-opt