Sentence examples for Was countermanded from inspiring English sources

As for Cesar Kaskel, he returned to Paducah after General Orders No. 11 was countermanded.

In perhaps their most forceful intervention yet in Hong Kong, Mr Tung's wish was countermanded.

Its decision to set up offices outside the Vatican was countermanded.

At CSFB, Quattrone's e-mail was countermanded twice in the next two days by company lawyers.

This was countermanded after Bar-Lev visited Adan at his command post and realized the gravity of the paratroopers' situation.

This decree, however, was countermanded by a royal decree to the county sheriffs in the affected dioceses ordering them to imprison any residents who refused to interact with Jews.

2) How soon would the beauty of the result be countermanded by the resultant chafing?

As a result, one of the goals of the magnet school program -- parent choice -- has been countermanded.

His goal now appears to be to rally public opinion against the very orders that President Obama insisted, as he told Joe Biden, could not be countermanded.

(In the recent Germanwings tragedy, such a system might have decided that descending over mountainous terrain with no immediate airfield available was so odd as to be countermanded).

Persia, on December 5, presented an ultimatum to Russia, demanding that the Russian troops should proceed no further and an undertaking that further drafts be countermanded.