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Synonyms for commandeer

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Synonyms for commandeer

to take quick and forcible possession of

to lay claim to for oneself or as one's right

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Synonyms for commandeer

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(169) The Court ruled that this provision commandeered the state legislatures in violation of the anti-commandeering doctrine.
In Printz, Justice Scalia suggested that another type of accountability would be damaged by allowing the Federal Government to commandeer the States: Congress's own.
that the federal government may commandeer those officers.
As it stands, the federal government can commandeer virtually any piece of information the states possess.
In a related vein, the disruption also depends on citizens' expectations about whether the federal government would actually commandeer information.
East of England Ambulance Service said: "Crews often commandeer vehicles to help transport patients to awaiting helicopters."
During the first day of his trial, the Israeli Arab student denied earlier comments that he was planning to commandeer the flight and crash the aircraft into skyscrapers in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Fearful of producing a full-scale confrontation with Congress, the Supreme Court had in earlier, similar cases shied away from a direct examination of whether Congress possessed an "enumerated power" to legislate and instead asked the narrower question of whether the 10th Amendment permitted Congress to "commandeer" the states in the exercise of its powers.
Professor Lerer watches the fifteenth-century writers and readers watching Chaucer and "canonizing" him in the process, not simply by exerting their own authority over his texts (though they do commandeer certain texts imperiously enough), but more fundamentally by subordinating themselves to his authority.
Third, Congress may commandeer the states pursuant to its powers under the Reconstruction Era Amendments.
Wielding enzymes called hydrogenases, the organisms split hydrogen molecules and commandeer their electrons.
The Depression that enabled FDR to complete the transfer of responsibility for public assistance-and thus the principal authority to commandeer and allocate the revenues to finance it-to Washington scuffled and sank local, county, and state political organizations that failed to please those in charge in Washington.
This will allow law enforcement agencies to commandeer airtime on TV and radio when a child goes missing, and includes alerts via email, electronic traffic signs and text message.
Not only did the footie pundits hail England the winners of Euro 2004 long before the first ball was kicked, they've now decided it appropriate to commandeer the charts in the process.
But maybe this is the wave of the future: Living artists commandeer a museum to show their own work, with art sales (hopefully) sustaining it.
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