Sentence examples for he countermanded from inspiring English sources

He countermanded McClellan's orders for General McDowell to embark for the peninsula and elevated McDowell to command a new Department of the Rappahannock, answerable only to the president.

Mehmed had had to consent to a three-day sack of the city, but, before the evening of the first day after its capture, he countermanded his order.

After he got into the National Guard, he countermanded an order to take a physical, and then disappeared for a year.

As soon as the Emperor learned this, he countermanded the order, replaced the minister of works with a less dour individual, and insisted on riding through the streets of his oppressed subjects crying out, "Make as much racket as you like, people!

At Ismail Khan's press conference, he had countermanded the Taliban's edict that women wear the burka out-of-doors.

Ms Mitchell then spoke to Mr Whyte who claimed he had been countermanded, meaning he was no longer needed as a witness, and had received a letter confirming this.

"On my way to Washington, in order to get this most outrageous and inhuman order of Major General Grant countermanded," he announced to reporters.

Before he could be countermanded, the Confederates had already been repulsed by the IV Corps.

He added: "By countermanding first the landslide victory of an elected government and then a 61% plebiscite majority, the EU functionally vetoed the outcomes of Greek democracy".

California had already long been the nation's leader in energy efficiency since Brown's first go-round as governor, when he decided to countermand utility plans for dozens of nuclear power plants in favor of dramatically cutting the state's per capita electric power usage.

Sometimes they countermanded them.