An official announced that it would halt eradication of coca (the raw material for cocaine), which is increasingly being cultivated, only for Mr Humala to countermand him days later.While the previous president, Alan García, hogged the headlines, constantly presenting plans and inaugurating public works, Mr Humala has closeted himself in the presidential palace, issuing occasional Tweets.
Sometimes they countermanded them.
The army, which had got wind of the orders, countermanded them.
"On my way to Washington, in order to get this most outrageous and inhuman order of Major General Grant countermanded," he announced to reporters.
Although the order to Charles to recross the Rhine and march north was eventually countermanded, by the time such instructions reached him, he had gone too far to return to Zurich in time.
There his arrangements to embark troops were countermanded by new orders from Clinton that instead ordered him to use his force to establish a fortified naval station.
Marlborough, spotting this error, now countermanded Cutts' intention to launch a third attack, and ordered him simply to contain the enemy within Blenheim; no more than 5,000 Allied soldiers were able to pen in twice the number of French infantry and dragoons.
That was quickly countermanded.
The Binh Xuyen was routed, and Dulles countermanded his order.
The bellicose and jealous Count Olivares had countermanded a moderating turn by Spinola toward diplomacy in the Netherlands, as military prospects darkened there after the retaking of Breda, and now he dispatched him to a quagmire: the defense of northern Italian regions against partisan uprisings and French encroachments.
