Requisition Sentence Examples

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  • Even the shoulder-blades are said to be put in requisition for cutting grass."

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  • Simply send a requisition for the number of envelopes or pens you need.

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  • Esparto leaves contain 56% by weight of fibre, or about ro% more than straw, and hence have come into requisition as a substitute for linen rags in the manufacture of paper.

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  • There is no provision for contributories to requisition first meetings.

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  • Otherwise, as a community trust we were advised it will be expensive to get non stock requisition orders.

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  • The four long-neglected small heliometers made by Fraunhofer were brought into requisition.

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  • And in the second place, the various serum reactions to be described below have been called into requisition.

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  • Any such written requisition of the members shall state the object of the meeting proposed to be called.

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  • The methods in which these are provided are of infinite variety, and any and every part of the flower and of the inflorescence may be called into requisition to supply the adaptation (see Fruit).

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  • The Council shall call such a Special Meeting on a written requisition signed by not less than 25 members.

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  • Requests for testing can be made on a maintenance requisition form at the Porters ' Lodge.

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  • The meeting is not to transact any business other than that set out in the requisition and the notice convening the meeting.

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  • As you accumulate medical costs, you turn in a reimbursement requisition to your employer, who will cut you a check for a portion of your flex spending savings.

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  • For the same reason potato-planting and potato-lifting machines were also in greater requisition.

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  • The police is recruited locally, and no regular troops appear in the province except on special requisition.

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  • A General meeting shall be held within 56 days of receipt of the requisition.

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  • The requisition, when issued by the civil authorities of the port from which the vessel is fitted out, is called a sea-letter.

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  • They would wish to be able to picture Him to their minds; and especially to understand what could have led to His being put to death by the Romans at the requisition of the Jews.

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  • The explanation of the fact may partly be that the mechanical and other discoveries of the most ingenious minds among them, when not in constant requisition by later generations, were misunderstood or forgotten, and even in other cases were preserved only as rules of thumb by the craftsmen and experts, who would jealously hide them as secrets of trade.

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  • At this juncture he succeeded in making his escape from prison in Castile into Aragon, where, under the ancient " fueros " of the kingdom he could claim a public trial in open court, and so bring into requisition the documentary evidence he possessed of the king's complicity in the deed.

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  • John, and sought to conciliate the Portuguese by reducing the requisition demanded by Napoleon from 40,000,000 francs to 20,000,000.

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  • In China large spheres of good coloured coral command high prices, being in great requisition for the button of office worn by the mandarins.

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  • The presbytery fixes the former for specific business; the latter is summoned by the moderator, either on his own initiative or on the requisition of two or more members of presbytery, for the transaction of business which has suddenly emerged.

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  • A small wooden church, erected by the monk Sergius, and afterwards burned (1391) by the Tatars, stood on the site now occupied by the cathedral of the Trinity, which was built in 1422, and contains the relics of Sergius, as well as ecclesiastic treasures of priceless value and a holy picture which has frequently been brought into requisition in Russian campaigns.

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  • Urgent messages were sent off to the Commissary von Goethe (the poet), at Weimar for permission to requisition food and firewood.

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  • If the troops halt for several days, of course they require either a more densely populated country from which to requisition supplies, or a wider area of cantonments.

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  • The two species which are farthest removed in structure, the horse and the ass, produce, as is well known, hybrids or mules, which in certain qualities useful to man excel both their progenitors, and in some countries and for certain kinds of work are in greater requisition than either.

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  • The nitrogen of the atmosphere is not called into requisition, except by a few plants and under special conditions, as will be explained later.

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  • He gave some proofs of statesmanlike ability, and his eloquence was repeatedly called into requisition to pacify the Parisians.

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  • He was accused later of having taken part in the massacres of September, but was able to prove that at that time he had been sent by the provisional executive council to Normandy to oversee a requisition of 60,000 men.

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  • In the case of the ship of a neutral power, the passport is a requisition by the government of the neutral state to suffer the vessel tc pass freely with the crew, cargo, passengers, &c., without molestation by the belligerents.

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  • His refusal soon after his inauguration to honour the requisition of the governor of Virginia for three persons charged with assisting a slave to escape from Norfolk, provoked retaliatory measures by the Virginia legislature, in which Mississippi and South Carolina soon joined.

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  • In February 1793 the Convention decreed a levy on the whole of France, and on the eve of the ballot the Vendee, rather than comply with this requisition, broke out in insurrection.

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  • Land, cattle and slaves are the principal kinds of wealth, and they are all constituents of the king's revenue; enforced work contributed by members of the community, and the furnishing commodities on requisition, further aid in the maintenance of the primitive state.

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