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Example sentences for "requisitions"

Lexicographically close words:
requisite; requisites; requisition; requisitioned; requisitioning; requisitus; requital; requitall; requite; requited
  1. Antony began to levy troops, and collect and equip galleys and ships of war, and to make requisitions of money and military stores from all the eastern provinces and kingdoms.

  2. This squadron was one which had been sent across the Mediterranean with arms, ammunition, and military stores for Caesar, in answer to requisitions which he had made immediately after he had landed.

  3. When creditors wanted payment, requisitions were made upon the States for their respective quotas.

  4. The Continental Congress was without power to raise money by taxation, and had to depend upon credit bills and requisitions drawn against the several Colonies.

  5. At Antwerp, requisitions of all kinds of materials and products were considerable, notably: Francs.

  6. Neither requisitions in kind nor service can be demanded from communes or inhabitants, except for the necessities of the army of occupation.

  7. Other enormous requisitions were made on shop depots, &c.

  8. The difficulties that are met with in keeping to the rules of war while making these requisitions have been overcome.

  9. Similar requisitions were made, in all cities in which the German troops camped.

  10. The agents of the colony and the emissaries of the Crown crossed and recrossed the ocean with apologies on the one hand and requisitions on the other; but nothing would satisfy the Crown but the subjugation of the colony.

  11. The Elizabethtown settlers, asserting their right to the lands confirmed to them by Governor Nicolls independent of the requisitions of the Concessions, became the central instruments of action for the disaffected.

  12. Repayment of fines and requisitions levied by the enemy Governments or their officers on French municipalities or nationals.

  13. There remain, in particular, levies and requisitions on the occupied areas and the losses of the French mercantile marine at sea from the attacks of German cruisers and submarines.

  14. We will here refer to the three late dismissals upon writs of habeas corpus, of Joseph Smith, when arrested under the requisitions of Missouri.

  15. By some of the Societies the general requisitions of former Conventions, have not yet been answered or complied with, and by others only in part.

  16. As a result of the analyses made by the employment supervisor and his staff, applicants are recommended to foremen who have made requisitions for the filling of vacancies.

  17. Requisitions are carefully checked up, records kept to show that each department is using only its proper quota of materials and supplies of all kinds.

  18. Nor ought I to omit to acknowledge the efficacious and patriotic co-operation which I have experienced from the Chief Magistrates of the States to which my requisitions have been addressed.

  19. The manners of the great body of the professional men must indicate much of the requisitions of the society they serve.

  20. The requisitions of honour come to be viewed as regarding only equals, or those who are hedged about with honour, and they are neglected with regard to the helpless.

  21. All requisitions from Porto Rico were promptly filled by the committee and the relief continued so long as any necessity for it remained.

  22. Two men were kept constantly employed in the warehouse of the Red Cross issuing foods, medicines and delicacies to fill requisitions from the officers of the army.

  23. Requisitions for carloads of delicacies were sent by telegraph, and when the needs were urgent the goods came, not by freight but by express.

  24. The same attention was given to them; all requisitions for milk and ice and delicacies were promptly filled.

  25. Here the Red Cross supplies were carefully stored and classified, and from thence shipped upon requisitions to all points reached in the relief work.

  26. Make your requisitions specific in kind and quantity.

  27. Would he, or could he wait until the constitutionality of such requisitions had been submitted to the courts?

  28. You may make your requisitions through Sachsen, mynheer.

  29. State regulations required daily conferences, that the civil arm of the government might lay its commands upon the military and the military make its requisitions upon the civil.

  30. For further food than this he must depend upon a country by no means rich in supplies at any time, which had already been stripped nearly bare by the requisitions of his adversary.

  31. Instead of planning a campaign McClellan devoted himself to the making of multitudinous requisitions and ceaseless complaints.

  32. It is humorously related that the officer constructing it, having been told to make requisitions for whatever materials he might need, formally sent in a requisition for "a hundred men eighteen feet high.

  33. To the requisitions of the law of Nature and the law of God, it adds the imperative obligation of a contract.

  34. He called attention to the fact that requisitions for clothing made by the regular regiments over a year previous had not been sent, or at any rate had not reached the regiments.

  35. General Clinch made requisitions on the Governors of Georgia, South Carolina, and Alabama to aid the Floridians in their unequal warfare with the savages.

  36. Governor Marcy was with him ready to answer his requisitions for militia, and he had the aid of the officers commanding on Lake Erie and the Detroit frontier and on the Niagara, Lake Ontario, and St. Lawrence.

  37. Till, therefore, you are otherwise instructed, you will act in obedience to the legal requisitions of the proper civil officers of the United States.

  38. The problem of restoring the palace presented much difficulty in the impoverished state of the country, but the Bakufu did not hesitate to take the task in hand, and to issue the necessary requisitions to the feudatories of the home provinces.

  39. As the eminent historian, Rai Sanyo, said in later times, her soldiers were wearied by constant campaigns oversea, and her agriculturists were exhausted by frequent requisitions for supplies.

  40. Every man carried with him a supply of cooked rice, specially prepared so as to occupy little space while sufficing for several days' food, and this supply was constantly replenished by requisitions levied upon the districts traversed.

  41. It will be seen that there was no annual tax regularly imposed on the people in general, though universal requisitions were occasionally made to meet the requirements of public works, festivals or military operations.

  42. At first, they respected the requisitions of the Bakufu.

  43. Its manufactories now owe their chief activity to the requisitions for supplying cloth to the armies.

  44. If the French troops are now better clothed, it is the effect of requisitions and pre-emptions, which have ruined the manufacturers.

  45. In all parts they were to be seen, rivalling each other, and creating scarcity and famine, by requisitions and exactions, which they did not convert to the profit of the republic, but to their own.

  46. And on the first requisitions made by Congress for current expenditures, each might make payment either in part, or perhaps in the whole, by a discharge of so much of the debt.

  47. They have not complied with the requisitions of Congress.

  48. Now if the State of North Carolina are desirous of paying in specie, on the requisitions of specie, I shall not have the least objection; but on the requisitions for the service of the current year, I will receive money alone.

  49. It will be quite time enough to do that, when they shall have complied with the several requisitions made upon them, and when they shall have intrusted these subaltern negotiations to the Ministers whom Congress have appointed.

  50. To go no farther, it would hardly be prudent to hazard a dispute with Massachusetts, by relinquishing the requisitions of March, 1780, or with some other States by a useless attempt to enforce them.

  51. Persuaded that the wisdom of your Legislature will feel equally with me the force of this observation, I have no doubt but that the requisitions of Congress, for the service of the year 1782, will be punctually complied with.


  52. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "requisitions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.