Max Lucado

We are Jesus Christ's; we belong to him. But even more, we are increasingly him. He moves in and commandeers our hands and feet, requisitions our minds and tongues. We sense his rearranging: debris into the divine, pig's ear into silk purse. He repurposes bad decisions and squalid choices. Little by little, a new image emerges.

American Clergyman

Michelle Malkin

In the 1970s, 'The Boys on the Bus' exposed how a clubby pack of male political reporters ruled the road to the White House and shaped the news. Four decades later, an outsider gal from Alaska has commandeered the 2012 media bus - and left Beltway journalism insiders eating her dust.

American Writer

Brendan I. Koerner

Skyjackers had a pretty abysmal success rate - once you commandeered a plane in American airspace, your odds of a happy ending were slim. After the epidemic ended in 1973, what folks tended to remember most about the skyjackers was their futility.

American Author

Heather Cox Richardson

In the 1820s, westerners and political outsiders worried that rich men in the east had commandeered the government for their own ends.

American Historian

Ernest Mandel

And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders.

Belgian Author

Jon Huntsman, Sr.

In America today, unfortunately, the right wing has been totally commandeered by the Tea Party, and it's a bad thing for our party.

American Philanthropist

Anand Giridharadas

America, thankfully, is not an easy nation to commandeer.

The word conveys a sense of urgency and authority, often associated with dire circumstances.

Forceful Action

When commandeering, the item is usually taken temporarily and should be returned later.

Temporary Use

Commandeering is usually done by someone in a position of power, often backed by law.

Legal Authority

Commandeering for service is often a government action during emergencies like wartime.

Government Power

Being commandeered into service means having no choice but to comply.

Mandatory Participation

 drones now drones have gotten a lot of controversy lately with their use the military I think I've even when I said the word I saw some of you guys cower in fear but you know just like the Internet which kind of originally came under military funding and has been like commandeered by the public I feel like

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 he spoke with an aviator who claimed to have flown a plane that day he went and commandeered with another guy commandeered one of these planes and that this man lit sticks of dynamite and threw them out of an airplane i don't think it was a lot of sticks of dynamite but i think it happened and when you

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 were commandeered by the emperor, including groups of artisans who molded each body part separately to construct statues as individual as the real warriors in the emperor's army. They stand according to rank and feature different weapons and uniforms, distinct hairstyles and expressions,

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 we have laws to deal with figuring out who should be held accountable for their actions in combat. These legal frameworks aim to contain and prevent atrocities from being more atrocious. Commandeering civilian planes and using them as weapons, dropping atomic bombs,

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 he seems to definitely have commandeered this water hall as his and I don't think he's getting much competition for it it's just really strange that he's on his own again Paula you think that he just likes the single life well and he

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 from other parts of this tree of life, but actually, for the most part, the basic machinery of our cells is pretty much the same. Do you realize that we can take advantage and commandeer the machinery of a common bacterium

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 It's a parasitic brain worm that has to get into the stomach of a sheep or a cow in order to continue its life cycle. Salmon swim upstream to get to their spawning grounds, and lancet flukes commandeer a passing ant,

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 As Nazi forces advanced, Belgian leaders sent the painting to France. But the Nazis commandeered and moved it to a salt mine converted into a stolen art warehouse that contained over 6,000 masterpieces.

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 life but actually for the most part the basic machinery of ourselves is pretty much the same do you realize that we can take advantage and commandeer the machinery of a common bacterium to

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 you literally had to be that guy, then commandeer one of the world's 19 copies of that computer, then used your Nobel-adjacent brain to teach it checkers. That was the bar.

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