Requisitioned

According to the fire services, the two hospitals close to Larissa have been requisitioned to handle the large number of casualties, and military hospitals in Thessaloniki and Athens are also “on alert” in case they are required.

As many as 60 containers have been requisitioned to be used as transit camps for the survivors and 40 of them have already reached the location, a release issued on Friday by the office of the Deputy Director of Publicity, Konkan division, said.

In his manifesto, Folarin stated that state-owned tertiary institutions would be requisitioned as global centres of academic excellence through massive infrastructural development, third-party resource mobilisation and international collaborations.

During the war, the Littlewoods building was requisitioned by the government and became the home of the postal censorship department, inspecting mail to prevent the risk of sensitive information crossing enemy lines.

During World War II, the government requisitioned the Holy Angels property to be used as air raid precaution headquarters, the Madras High Court, and the Law College during the war.

Another shipment was to be sent from Turkey but was eventually requisitioned by Turkish authorities.

Some QVC viewers, perhaps, took comfort in the fact that Quacker Factory, the purveyor of shamrock shirts, had not been requisitioned to manufacture the N95 masks and ventilator machines in critically short supply at American hospitals.

To him, private businesses are not the engine of the economy, which creates wealth and pays the taxes which fund public services; they are organisations ripe to be requisitioned by the state.

Whatever team, new or requisitioned, would need to work out a timeshare on a soccer pitch before working out their own plans for a(n American) football-specific stadium.

His art collections including the painting were moved to Paris for safekeeping during World War II and later requisitioned by the French government at the end of the war as enemy property.

A colleague was astonished to discover that Falcone, who had no computers at his disposal, was personally recording the details listed on printouts of transactions that he had requisitioned from every bank in Palermo province.

Areas were emptied of French civilians and buildings requisitioned, thousands of kilometres of telephone cable were laid, thousands of tons of ammunition and rations were stored under cover with hundreds of guns installed and camouflaged.

Burnside first requisitioned the pontoon bridging (along with many other provisions) on November 7 when he detailed his plan to Halleck.

For example, huge amounts of provisions were requisitioned during his visit to Egypt; this suggests that the burden on the mainly subsistence farmers must have been intolerable, causing some measure of starvation and hardship.

Gruinard was surveyed, deemed suitable and requisitioned from its owners by the British Government.

He started managing a poultry farm that had been requisitioned by the local Republican government, but it was not economically viable.

Homes were requisitioned to house invading German forces.

Horses and mules The army was always short of horses and mules, and requisitioned them with dubious promissory notes given to local farmers and breeders.

In these regions, new land, which they cleared for farming, was provided for the refugees; in more populated areas, property was requisitioned.

It was a joke that "SOE" stood for "Stately 'omes of England", after the large number of country houses and estates it requisitioned and used.