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I felt as if my mind was being whipped, as if a ghost had commandeered my pen and was writing to redress the injustices it had suffered.

In a mad dash to leave the doomed installation, Mungo was unable to get to his ship -- it had been commandeered by a desperate Koong.

The enemy has commandeered an old castle in the hill country and is now using it as their fortress.

On some days, I observed during jury breaks that Andrew didn't have the iPad with him; he explained that his girlfriend had commandeered it.

They have demonstrated in the clearest manner how instruments of the state can be commandeered in the interests of an individual.

In 2006 it said the air force could not shoot down a plane commandeered by terrorists even to prevent a greater disaster.

But, after all the set-backs, the team commandeered part of a local hotel to create a temporary breeding facility.

The surviving members of his administration set up their command post in a school kitchen using commandeered computers.

He commandeered an Air Force plane and flew to Los Angeles.

He packed his musette bag , commandeered an airplane and , under the impression that Florence too had been captured by the Allies .

Vergere, seeking to save a struggling Jacen, commandeered an A-wing starfighter, and crashed her vessel into the barren moon.

An Israeli army spokesman told the BBC that the bombs had been commandeered by Hamas militants.

One night, a spirited group made their way into the bar, chased out the sullen army grunts and commandeered the place.

Russian troops also reportedly commandeered American Humvees awaiting shipment back to the US.

Officials also commandeered private boats in an effort to prevent richer and higher castes from monopolizing the vessels.

They typically hold some of the choicest lands, to the displeasure of the tribes from which they commandeered those lands.

Russian troops also reportedly commandeered American Humvee s awaiting shipment back to the US.

A power struggle will now break out within Peronism, the country's dominant political movement which Mr Kirchner had commandeered.

By breakfast time protesters had blocked another crossing with commandeered buses and burning tires.

they commandeered materials from state enterprises at low prices and then sold the output at high "cooperative" prices.

He is pushing for a law to allow security forces to shoot down a plane commandeered by hijackers .

It is sometimes said that the makers of New Labour commandeered the party simply to achieve power.

For many historical and trans-historical reasons, which we won't go into here, various beings have commandeered your ship.

The world seems astonished by how quickly young Iranians have commandeered the internet to spread news of their protests.

Solo and Chewie included Kyp in a daring prison break that saw the trio escape in a commandeered Imperial shuttle.

verb ? All automobiles in the town were commandeered by the army.

If they have not been so commandeered, attacks on such sites may constitute war crimes.

Industry is commandeered by the Nazi war machine.

Outside the Katiba, as dusk arrived, men driving commandeered bulldozers and trucks loaded with petrol attempted to ram the walls.

In the summer of 1944 the Allies battled thousands of Japanese who had commandeered the mountain's strategic heights.

In 1941, the Japanese Navy commandeered it.

Political science, the field he devoted his working life to, has been in the main commandeered by a new generation.

other than rows of temporary houses that have commandeered school playing fields

policewho commandeered a passing car to chase the escaping thieves