Sentence examples for countermands from inspiring English sources

Even through her frustration, one feels the author's love for her mother, the impact of her loss -- in direct contrast to the way she countermands her father's last wish, to give his money to the con man.

It has been argued that a "right to privacy" countermands government placing bans on trait selection through genetic selection and manipulation.

As Lo pointed out, the final modified version of the land ethic needs more than two second-order principles, since a third-order principle is needed to specify Callicott's implicit view that the second second-order principle generally countermands the first one when they come into conflict (Lo 2001, 345).

Some bioethicists have argued that a "right to privacy" countermands government placing bans on sex selection.

The blame, rightly, lands on the politicians, and in particular on the formidable Mrs Thatcher (as she then was), whose commitment over Pergau in 1988 to her Malaysian counterpart, Mahathir Mohamad (pictured), no yes-minister bureaucrat or cowed minister afterwards dared countermand.

Though embarrassed by the interior ministry's aired intention to build Jewish houses in East Jerusalem, he did nothing to countermand it or to scold the minister.

The army, which had got wind of the orders, countermanded them.

It denounces financiers for causing the crisis, but has backed arguments against Ireland burning its bank creditors.More than once, Mrs Merkel has countermanded Mr Schäuble.

Angry citizens are resorting to protests and referendums to countermand the decisions of a political class for which they have little respect.

Rumours fly, decisions are taken blind and countermanded after they have been carried out.

(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).