Sentence examples for be countermanded from inspiring English sources
verb
To revoke (a former command); to cancel or rescind by giving an order contrary to one previously given.
- To countermand an order for goods
2) How soon would the beauty of the result be countermanded by the resultant chafing?
(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).
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.
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.
Writing for a 7 2 majority, Chief Justice William Rehnquist acknowledged that the court had often suggested that Miranda was not truly a constitutional holding and thus could be countermanded by Congress.
Mr. Biden asked whether the new policy of beginning a significant withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan in 2011 was a direct presidential order that could not be countermanded by the military.
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.
As a result, one of the goals of the magnet school program -- parent choice -- has been countermanded.
It appears that orders issued by the new prime minister, Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the Movement for Democratic Change, are already being countermanded by ZANU-PF, formerly the sole ruling party, still bent on keeping the upper hand.
