Sentence examples for it countermanded from inspiring English sources

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Famously, he often depicted himself and Bella flying together, as if their shared joy had such physical force it countermanded the law of gravity itself.

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When McHugh realized that the plane wasn't taking off, he rushed back to the cockpit to repeat his order, and Kilduff countermanded it.

(As contentious as monument designations sometimes are, the courts have given Presidents wide latitude to exercise this power, and Congress has never countermanded it).

After September 11th, Madison's left-leaning seven-member school board met to discuss the new law, and ended up passing a resolution that countermanded it: "Every school," Singer writes, "would offer, every day, a wordless, instrumental version of the national anthem.

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.

The preliminary crash report shows that the plane's nose was pushed down more than two dozen times before it plunged into the sea 12 minutes after takeoff, with the pilots attempting to countermand it by pulling up on the yoke, moving a smaller control panel at the back of the horizontal stabilizers called an elevator, and flicking a switch on the yoke that adjusts the stabilizers.

It's astonishing that the government could consider legislation with the prior intent of issuing guidance to countermand it.

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.

Like his death penalty opinions, it subsequently was countermanded--in this case, by the Legislature.

Whenever Thơ gave an order in the civilian hierarchy with which the generals disagreed, they would go to the MRC and countermand it.

(In 2012, Congress approved a measure that was supposed to raise N.F.I.P. premiums, to better reflect the actuarial risk of the policies; then, in 2014, lawmakers reversed themselves, approving a second measure that effectively countermanded the first). It might also be seen as a metaphor.

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