Sentence examples for were countermanded from inspiring English sources

There his arrangements to embark troops were countermanded by new orders from Clinton that instead ordered him to use his force to establish a fortified naval station.

These orders were countermanded in favor of strikes from Admiral Marc Mitscher's aircraft carriers, but as a contingency the battleships together with seven cruisers and twenty one destroyers were sent to interdict the Japanese force before it could reach the vulnerable transports and landing craft.

2) How soon would the beauty of the result be countermanded by the resultant chafing?

As for Cesar Kaskel, he returned to Paducah after General Orders No. 11 was countermanded.

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.

As a result, one of the goals of the magnet school program -- parent choice -- has been countermanded.

His goal now appears to be to rally public opinion against the very orders that President Obama insisted, as he told Joe Biden, could not be countermanded.

(In the recent Germanwings tragedy, such a system might have decided that descending over mountainous terrain with no immediate airfield available was so odd as to be countermanded).

Persia, on December 5, presented an ultimatum to Russia, demanding that the Russian troops should proceed no further and an undertaking that further drafts be countermanded.

Writing for a 7 2 majority, Chief Justice William Rehnquist acknowledged that the court had often suggested that Miranda was not truly a constitutional holding and thus could be countermanded by Congress.