How to Use requisition in a Sentence

requisition

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  • When work is done, your laptop sits on a matte black perch, high above the requisition forms and time cards.
    — Carley Knobloch, USA TODAY, 25 Sep. 2017
  • Time to hire: This is the time from the search kickoff to accepted offer and includes hours spent on each requisition.
    — Vikram Ahuja, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2021
  • An airman quoted in the UPI article says that a toilet seat cover requisition can take up to a year to fill.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 21 Aug. 2019
  • Kelly was booked into the Crawford County jail on June 25 on a felony charge of arrest prior to requisition.
    — Mike Crowley The Meadville Tribune, al, 7 July 2023
  • Not a single state complies with the requisitions, several pass over them in silence, and some positively reject them.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 26 Aug. 2014
  • The process of moving supplies to England was gauged by the general timetable, radioed requisitions from supply officers in England, and the availability of ships.
    — Popular Mechanics, 6 June 2019
  • Congress could pass requisitions, which were basically requests for money from the states.
    — Lindsay M. Chervinsky, Time, 6 Apr. 2020
  • Site office managers will eventually be able to enter requisitions through the online portal and the approvals process will lead back to Evans’ office for purchasing.
    — Matt Sanderson, La Cañada Valley Sun, 19 Apr. 2017
  • The act initially gave the President short-term use of wide-ranging powers from the requisition of property, material and facilities to the ability to place ceilings on wages and prices.
    — Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 24 Mar. 2020
  • Department are required to follow procurement guidelines, and his staff review the requisition and approve if the department has followed those rules, Bilby added.
    — Gustavo Solis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Dec. 2020
  • For hundreds of years, the royal prerogative has allowed Britain’s leaders to mint coinage, requisition ships, send troops into battle or authorize the mining of precious metals.
    — Stephen Castle, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2016
  • Yet this required purveyors to requisition food, drink and other materials necessary for the events from that same populace.
    — Judith Flanders, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2018
  • The government renewed its requisition order requiring workers to go back to work at the two blockaded refineries, the government spokesperson said.
    — Dalal Mawad, CNN, 23 Mar. 2023
  • After-hours, armed with standard-issue No. 2 pencils and a stack of pilfered requisition forms, Foy started laying out his extraordinary visions.
    — Laura Regensdorf, Vogue, 16 Nov. 2018
  • Interview training is a must for companies to equip hiring managers with the ability to look beyond just the skills needed for an open requisition to also ensure the candidate aligns with the organization’s values.
    — Sherika Epko, Forbes, 25 Apr. 2022
  • The combination of lies, failed experiments, absence of labor and violent requisition practices led to famine.
    — Helen Raleigh, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Replacing a broken office printer needs a requisition form approved by a manager.
    — Roger Dooley, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2021
  • The oil pipeline, which could be disastrous in the case of a spill, was directed away from the predominantly white, middle-class city of Bismarck, and redirected way too close to a Native community, without any requisition or warning.
    — Lincoln Blades, Teen Vogue, 21 Dec. 2016
  • If more materials are needed, submit a requisition to your local provider, which has that secret discretionary account from all those monthly surcharges for those who add extra regional sports channels.
    — Orange County Register, 7 Jan. 2017
  • Since Higgins was arrested last month, Whitmer signed on Nov. 9 a document required for extradition called a requisition for rendition.
    — Joe Guillen, Detroit Free Press, 18 Nov. 2020
  • For mothers with all their hats -- requisition and inventory officer, accountant, staff sergeant, teacher, coach, shrink, healer, chaplain, chef, dishwasher, shaman, farmer, artist, employee and boss.
    — John Archibald | Jarchibald@al.com, al, 10 May 2020
  • Then-prime minister Francois Fillon’s used requisition orders to bring back TotalEnergies’ refinery staff back to work.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 17 Oct. 2022
  • The formal requisition process began with a November request for qualifications, proceeded with a request for proposals and resulted in two bids.
    — Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Mar. 2021
  • The troupe of players Hamlet requisitions is accompanied by an onstage accordionist, for a sound appropriately rustic yet prickly.
    — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 30 June 2017
  • Some hospital workers also went on strike, though public hospitals requisition workers during strikes to ensure essential medical care.
    — Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2019
  • Roles can vary depending on the size of the company but duties generally include budgeting and determining vendors and suppliers, reviewing inventory, tracking orders, and processing purchase orders and requisitions.
    — Daniel Bortz, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2017

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