Countermand

With Proposition 23, two out-of-state oil corporations, Valero and Tesoro, and right-wing oil billionaires based in New York and Kansas are trying to use the California initiative process, originally intended to allow citizen intervention in the governance of this state, to countermand AB 32 and set policy for us. ❋ Rebecca Solnit (2010)

Episode V: Tyler begins forcing bureaucrats out of work, only to have Tyrone, his identical but evil twin, show up and countermand all of the orders on the basis that the regulations were mostly okay and some were even less onerous than "what might have been". ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Army had barred Donovan from going in with any of its contingents, no way a Navy admiral would countermand orders from a sister service and take a stowaway, Stark told him. ❋ Douglas Waller (2011)

Those were the British orders, and the Japanese had no reason to countermand them on her say-so. ❋ Jennet Conant (2011)

Going forward, the automaker has committed to equip all Toyota vehicles for North America with Smart Stop, a brake-throttle override that would allow drivers to intuitively countermand runaway acceleration by simply pressing the brake pedal. ❋ Unknown (2010)

No insurance company should have the power to countermand a doctor. ❋ Unknown (2009)

We are unable to countermand or override the process. ❋ Dayton Ward (2011)

The Assembly had suffered a pang of conscience over their murder decree, so they ordered Cleon to countermand it. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In a 2000 book review, also published in the Wall Street Journal, Webb wrote that affirmative action "has within one generation brought about a permeating state-sponsored racism that is as odious as the Jim Crow laws it sought to countermand." ❋ Unknown (2010)

If Israel was involved in the Dubai operation, someone must have decided to countermand that order. ❋ Ronen Bergman (2010)

The Israeli defense ministry has already ruled out having the navy men who took part in the operation go before a panel, a decision Netanyahu could surely countermand if he wanted. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In the first sign of tensions between the two parties, the Conservatives had to countermand a Liberal Democrat briefing that Cameron would not be responsible for the dismissal of Lib Dem members of the new administration. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Fellow poets and critics write of her "oppositional temperament" (Steve Burt), of an impulse "to countermand, rather than to express" (Dan Chiasson). ❋ Unknown (2010)