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  • Ramius countermanded his order.†  (source)
  • Leading her van, Daario had given orders for the children to be taken down before Dany had to see them, but she had countermanded him as soon as she was told.†  (source)
  • Everyone's in panic, issuing orders and then countermanding them.†  (source)
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  • Colonel Cathcart countermanded himself an instant later when he remembered how good a job Colonel Korn had done before General Dreedle at the first Avignon briefing.†  (source)
  • So whose choices should we countermand, Mackenzie?†  (source)
  • What if the queen— But my consternation subsided there, and my panic passed off; for the queen, all in a collapse, made no show of resistance but gave a countermanding sign and sunk into her seat.†  (source)
  • This was countermanded and he was told to take anything from Adam Selene but notify Alvarez at once.†  (source)
  • Mother had ordered me not to tell anyone about the curse, but Mandy could countermand the order so I'd be able to tell Char.†  (source)
  • Impossible to conceal ourselves inside it without the artists seeing us, and then they will get off simply by countermanding the vaudeville.†  (source)
  • But as so often happened, the plan changed yet again; the orders were countermanded.†  (source)
  • It had taken an act from the U.S. State Department to bypass and countermand the red tape that would have normally resulted in an immigrant's immediate expulsion.†  (source)
  • Once he had the humor of changing his room and gave detailed orders for a move to the Painted Parlor; the chinoiserie, he said, disturbed his rest—he kept the lights full on at night—but again lost heart, countermanded everything, and kept his room.†  (source)
  • I cannot call Caine to countermand my orders, without releasing you, and the moment I release you I will fall beneath your mental domination or suffer physical assault.†  (source)
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