Sentence examples for has countermanded from inspiring English sources
At least once, the chancellor has countermanded a deal struck by her finance minister.
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.
In the markets, there is expanding capacity at both the primary and excess levels, which has countermanded underwriter desires for additional premium.
Admiral Berezovsky had countermanded instructions to carry out a strategic withdrawal to Odessa.
At Ismail Khan's press conference, he had countermanded the Taliban's edict that women wear the burka out-of-doors.
Lincoln had countermanded that proclamation (he saw it as a usurpation of the president's role), but he also noted that Hunter's proclamation had been very popular, and that he personally considered Hunter an "honest man" and "my friend".
The Ohio senator, characterized by a Cincinnati newspaper as a man "rich in epithets and profligate in furious vituperation," had famously attributed the president's views on race to "one born of poor white trash and educated in a slave State" after Lincoln had countermanded John Fremont's August 1861 order emancipating the slaves in Missouri.
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.
Ms Bower denies having any note or recollection of the instruction being to given to delete a report and says she would have countermanded it.
Her embarrassment and regret alone are enough to prevent a repeat: "A week of remorse nearly made Meg sick; and the discovery that John had countermanded the order for his new great-coat, reduced her to a state of despair which was pathetic to behold".
