Sentence examples for being countermanded from inspiring English sources

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.

George Lillikas, the finance minister, even floated the idea of a boycott of American goods before being countermanded by his cooler-headed colleagues.Turkish-Cypriots say that this trade visit was a bigger morale boost than anything the European Union has done for them.

I came to understand that it was inevitable that some of my decisions would be reversed by the prime minister, and I noted in my diary in 2004 that it is crucial that a chief of staff does not mind being countermanded by his boss.

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

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.

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.