Countermanded sentence example

But the celebration was at once countermanded when it was known that he had become earl of Chatham.

On the intervention of Agrippa the order was countermanded, and the assassination of the emperor (41) effectually stopped the desecration.

The Confederates were once more unsuccessful, and the losses were so heavy that the "fighting" policy ordered by the Confederate government was countermanded.

in which his Majesties title to the Dominion of the Sea is asserted against the Novel and later Pretenders (1674), which is a preface to a projected history of the Dutch wars undertaken at the request of Charles II., but countermanded on the conclusion of peace; A Philosophical Discourse of Earth..

Army command, whose initial requests were granted at once, the transference of two brigades to the Isonzo front being countermanded, and four additional brigades being placed at Brusati's disposal.

Eulalius having broken his ban, the emperor Honorius decided to recognize Boniface, and the council was countermanded.

countermanded changes proposed by Northern Clubs.

Sinclair also said that about the Spectrum but immediately countermanded the idea by producing a range of games programs.

The count was not angry even when they told him that Natasha had countermanded an order of his, and the servants now came to her to ask whether a cart was sufficiently loaded, and whether it might be corded up.