countermand

How To Use countermand In A Sentence

• The commander countermanded the reinforcements to the battlefield.
• If not countermanded by personal courage or other organizational forces, this tendency becomes habitual and self-perpetuating.
• In jurisdictions where a cheque can be backed by a guarantee card, there cannot be countermand.
• The ex-chief retained the loyalty of the rank-and-file, however, and the result was a successor who would find his own directives being countermanded by his predecessor.
• Resolved, that the committee on finance be instructed to enquire into the expediency of paying for clothing, & c. furnished to a portion of the militia of Roanoke when called out by the authorities, and the call countermanded before the said militia were mustered into service. Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia, for the Session of 1861-62
• The bank's mandate to pay is terminated if the customer countermands his order.
• No insurance company should have the power to countermand a doctor. Sebelius: There will be competition with private insurers
• They are all issuing commands, countermanding each other.
• When McAuliffe finally learned of the 333rd Artillery Group commander's order, he countermanded it immediately and sent word to the displacing units to return to their former positions.
• Had the countermand order been given at 0745, as the standard scenario holds, the torpedoes almost certainly would have been restored by 0920.