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" ... Fortunately for China, it has access to one of the world’s largest merchant fleets. “In wartime the PLA plans to mobilize China's entire maritime shipping fleet, commandeering every single vessel that can make the trip across the Taiwan Strait, which is potentially tens of thousands of ships,” Easton said. ... "
" ... Not everyone is eager to fill their pantry with a Resnick brand. Agriculture's king and queen have a history of commandeering natural resources in pursuit of profit, and their actions in Fiji – where they annually fill millions of plastic bottles with water and then ship them thousands of miles across the world while residents haven't always had access to potable water themselves – have already infuriated environmentalists. Now they are being vilified in California for their water use in the ongoing drought. "Ninety-nine percent of us are being asked to take cuts for the 1%: Stewart Resnick," says Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, executive director of Restore the Delta, a Stockton, Calif.-based nonprofit working to protect fisheries and farms in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. ... "
" ... Other first recipients were Union soldiers who also took part in this effort with Parrott. “The Great Locomotive Chase” involved them commandeering a train and taking it north as they destroyed Confederate railroads and bridges from Atlanta to Chattanooga. ... "
" ... The authors of the PPACA conditioned premium-assistance tax credits on states establishing Exchanges to induce state cooperation. Specifically, to avoid “commandeering” the states, the PPACA’s authors offered premium-assistance tax credits as one among a number of financial inducements for states to perform this task for the federal government. Congress routinely conditions federal benefits to individuals—both via direct spending and the tax code— on their states’ carrying out congressional priorities. Indeed, conditioning premium-assistance tax credits on states’ establishing Exchanges (and enacting other health insurance measures) is far from the largest financial inducement that Congress created for states in the PPACA. ... "
" ... The effect was undermining the US-China agreement that had a similar “fair and equal” clause as the US-Philippines treaty United takes issue with. The DOT did not dismiss American’s rejection, which American withdrew a year later after securing Beijing slots, so United’s regulatory strategy has precedent. There are more historical procedural commandeering examples going back to a 1997 matter between Northwest Airlines and Air India. ... "