requisition
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Counsel also argued that the claims about a minority protection would mean that nine councillors in Belfast could stop any decision through a valid call-in requisition.
From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2025
The case manager has to make a requisition, and that often follows a negotiation with the client.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2025
The government on Thursday renewed a requisition order to force a fuel depot in southern France to supply the region, Reuters reported.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 23, 2023
A requisition order has also been prepared for the Gonfreville site in northern France, TotalEnergies' biggest refinery in the country, but the formal notification has not been issued at this stage, the spokesperson added.
From Reuters ● Mar. 23, 2023
“It’s like a requisition center, Tally. Only when you get something, you have to leave something else behind as payment.”
From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld
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Amazon told recruiters not to call its latest move a hiring freeze, the email read, but that all open job requisitions should be closed in the coming days.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 4, 2022
The email said recruiters should tell job candidates that Amazon was not in a hiring freeze, though it went on to say all open job requisitions should be closed in the coming days.
From New York Times ● Oct. 4, 2022
Fearful of simmering Ukrainian nationalism, Stalin applied economic “sanctions” to regions that could not fulfill government requisitions.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 12, 2022
Just three months before her death, she was recognized with an award for her attention to detail and expertise in tracking and reconciling some $400,000 worth of open supply requisitions.
From Reuters ● Sep. 11, 2021
Kamen submitted the list and stood by uneasily as Cooksey, who had been known to hold lengthy conferences over requisitions worth a single dollar, scrutinized every entry.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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The author describes how in June 1940 the Nazis requisitioned the hotel to be the home of the Abwehr, the more civilized part of the intelligence services, at least compared with the Gestapo.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
The troops are requisitioned, the destroyers in place, the full moon just right, the secrecy of the invasion delicate.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026
Large residences in the area were requisitioned by M23 leaders after they seized the city.
From Barron's ● Mar. 11, 2026
Tens of thousands of migrants have been staying in government requisitioned hotels while they await an initial decision on their refugee status claim.
From BBC ● Jan. 1, 2024
Suddenly, like a jack-in-a-box, a lieutenant from the Dorsets popped up from the cellar of a municipal building that had been requisitioned for a headquarters.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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The official also said Russia is requisitioning equipment due to be delivered by its defence industry to other countries.
From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2024
Under the requisitioning plan, some workers are ordered to go back to work to guarantee the resumption of minimum services.
From Reuters ● Oct. 16, 2022
In France, President Emmanuel Macron tacitly acknowledged the depletion of the government’s stockpile at the beginning of March by requisitioning all the masks in the country.
From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2020
Authorities are requisitioning all face masks to reserve them for those infected with the virus and health workers, President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday.
From Fox News ● Mar. 11, 2020
The warehouse keeper, busy counting out some spare engine parts to a requisitioning sergeant of the Guard, looked up briefly from his clipboard.
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
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