Sentence examples for was countermanded from inspiring English sources
verb
To revoke (a former command); to cancel or rescind by giving an order contrary to one previously given.
- To countermand an order for goods
As for Cesar Kaskel, he returned to Paducah after General Orders No. 11 was countermanded.
(See Treaty of Purandhar). When this was countermanded by Calcutta, London intervened to renew the venture.
In perhaps their most forceful intervention yet in Hong Kong, Mr Tung's wish was countermanded.
Its decision to set up offices outside the Vatican was countermanded.
In another court document, a lawyer asserts that Chief Casey's recommendation was countermanded by one of his superiors -- Louis R. Anemone, then a division commander in the Bronx and now Chief of Department.
Whether the Aeneid would have undergone major changes cannot be guessed; the story goes that Virgil's dying wish was for his poem to be burned, but that this request was countermanded by the order of Augustus.
The authority of state planners is countermanded -- even at high risk -- by local experience.
2) How soon would the beauty of the result be countermanded by the resultant chafing?
As a result, one of the goals of the magnet school program -- parent choice -- has been countermanded.
Kallicharran was reinstated and Sang Hue, admittedly a little miffed, accepted that he had been countermanded, despite carrying out the law to the letter.
Regarding foreign policy, how can other nations take seriously anything Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says when he is subject to being countermanded on Twitter at any moment?
