Sentence examples for should countermand from inspiring English sources

He resisted suggestions that the MPA should "countermand" police operations.

The Federal Government should not countermand State law.

rules and even countermand the central government.

The Provisional Government was unable to countermand the order.

The attorney general has the authority to countermand virtually all decisions made by federal prosecutors.

But even as the play opens, he is busy sending a messenger to countermand that order.

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

Again, the pensions bosses protested, and a fresh regulation was issued that seemed to countermand the original.

The law has never been tested, because Mr. Clinton would have been sure to veto any attempt to countermand one of his own administration's rules.

She installed another officer to report directly to her on technology issues, but Mr. Ward continued to interfere, sometimes giving orders she was forced to countermand.

Poetry was there to countermand, rather than to express, identity, to reveal the hand-me-down nature of what we take to be deeply personal memories.