Meanings of hijack by in English

This was a clear case of hijack by the usual anarchist subjects, not the actual demonstrators.

He was delighted the attempted corporate hijack by the management team had been averted and the Government had rejected the MBO.

Now former East German civil rights campaigners have sounded the alarm, fearing a hijack by the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) of slogans from 1989.

In some cases, moreover, their protests were also hijacked by violent extremists.

The tanker is hijacked by pirates and the crew is taken hostage.

Our celebration of the birth of Christ has been hijacked by commercialism.

It's been hijacked by terrorists who say they have a bomb.

Since then, relativistic arguments have been hijacked by the populist right.

The PMO is, in turn, hijacked by the foreign oil lobby.

But chances of the agenda being hijacked by the alleged affair are high.

For them, their revolution has been hijacked by Islamists and the old guard.

Could this cosy, fictional murder mystery have been hijacked by something less fictional?

The president said the well-intentioned protests were hijacked by thugs.

One movement hijacked by QAnon is the protection of children.

But it has now been hijacked by the machine politics of the hard left.

The Assembly was hijacked by a well-organised group of students implementing a carefully-prepared plan.