He also says that your Department insist on ordering all pens, pencils, paperclips and so on centrally, and then distributing them against departmental requisitions.
France, by contrast, passed a law this week giving the government the power not just to control people's movements, but also to manage prices and requisition goods.
Force majeure includes, but is not limited to, strikes in general, embargo, acts of government, riots, war, whether declared or not declared, mobilization and requisition, fires, floods.
In tandem he began extraordinary recourse to martial law to requisition goods for the war effort and to billet soldiers and mariners in towns across England and Wales.
They have rejected, therefore, the proposal of being taxed by parliamentary requisition, and, like other ambitious and high-spirited men, have rather chosen to draw the sword in defence of their own importance.
How Anne's more rigid requisitions might have been taken is of little consequence. Lady Russell's had no success at all: could not be put up with, were not to be borne.