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Example sentences for "countermanding"

Lexicographically close words:
counterforts; countering; counterman; countermand; countermanded; countermarch; countermarched; countermarching; countermeasures; countermine
  1. It was not therefore without considerable regret, that they heard of their countermanding orders.

  2. She read the countermanding orders, and detained them!

  3. Several orders countermanding one another have been coming in, to the general effect that we are probably to start somewhere to-day.

  4. For two more days we stood in readiness to start, chafing under countermanding orders, and pitching and re-pitching of tents, so little did we know then of the common lot of a soldier on active service.

  5. As you could not know my plans, you and others may have misconstrued the reason of my countermanding your orders.

  6. He wondered how high the percentage of children's crimes would go were it not for countermanding influences.

  7. It seemed the great difference between Alfred Williams and a number of other children of eleven had been the absence of the countermanding influence.

  8. As a matter of fact, orders were issued for a pursuing force to leave on the evening of the 4th, but early in the morning of the 5th countermanding orders came through.

  9. I rather suspect that the countermanding came from the War Office and Lord Kitchener, who understood the Moslem mind so clearly.

  10. She read the countermanding orders and detained them!

  11. Three nights after the countermanding of the order to Rousseau to march to Missouri, Buckner invaded Kentucky and occupied Bowling Green.

  12. The greater part of this time we were "in the air," having cut our own communications, and no countermanding orders could interrupt or confuse the nerve centre.

  13. The first promise of help and its countermanding had placed us in an extremely dangerous situation.

  14. That must be his reasons for countermanding the advance--to give time for negotiation.

  15. All the forbearance and patience which we showed in countermanding the despatch of Macaulay’s Mission, and in trusting to the consideration of the Chinese and Tibetans, only led to the Sikkim campaign.

  16. And the forbearance which the Viceroy had shown in countermanding the mission had met with a bad return on the part of the Tibetans, for they had proceeded, without any cause or justification, to invade a State under British protection.


  17. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "countermanding" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.