requisition
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The case manager has to make a requisition, and that often follows a negotiation with the client.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2025
During Mrs Johnson Wahl's stay, she painted dozens of pieces depicting life at the hospital and upon her discharge went on to requisition a boardroom at the facility to exhibit her work.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2024
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
Taylor squinted upward at a lightening sky, “I expect he’s already under way. He advises me that there is a shoe factory in the town and his men intend to, ah, requisition some footgear. ”
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
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After launching requisitions at some refineries to get gas back into tanks, government officials said it plans more as soon as Tuesday.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 18, 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
But for a while, I worked there in the Dover Street Yard, helping to load food requisitions onto the trains.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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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
A handful of civilians also took part, sailing out into the Channel voluntarily, while many privately own vessels - known as the Little Ships - were requisitioned by the military.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2023
But the entire national supply of copper had been requisitioned for other war needs, and not even Groves’s bullishness could overcome that cold fact.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne said on Sunday, prompting possible further requisitioning of services.
From Reuters ● Oct. 16, 2022
Life was forged in the furnace of adversity, establishing itself by artfully requisitioning and repurposing the silver lining of misfortune.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2021
She added: “The employer ignored the spirit of my directive by unilaterally requisitioning the installation of a postal mailbox.”
From New York Times ● Nov. 29, 2021
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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