Word: countermand
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...Hitler's plan to exterminate the Jews. Thus began what some have called the Great Lie of Speer's life: by continuing to serve the Fuhrer despite his awareness of this abominable crime he became a criminal himself. Even Speer's bravely traitorous effort at war's end to countermand Hitler's scorched-earth policy for Germany was insufficient expiation...
...with the country's two legislative bodies, the Supreme Soviet, or parliament, and its parent, the Congress of People's Deputies. Yeltsin said he would not dissolve them -- yet. He would just ignore them. They could continue to meet and conduct legitimate legislative business, but if they tried to countermand his decrees, he would deem their acts invalid...
...army and KGB units on Russian republic soil. Bakhatin recounts that Yeltsin was reluctant; he feared that such an order would split the army and perhaps start a bloody civil war. Bakhatin and others, however, convinced Yeltsin that if no one exercising constitutional authority was willing to countermand orders from the junta, the army might eventually if reluctantly invade the White House and arrest them all, and the coup would succeed...
...primary reasons for this continuing abuse of human rights lies in the covert nature of the violations--most of the abuses involve secret arrests or deliberate cover-ups. We must take some of the blame, however, for not taking united, direct action to countermand such terrorists acts in other countries...
About 15 students delivered a three-minute rendition of Lewis Carroll's poem "Jabberwocky" to interrupt Casey, who was speaking on the need for a greater intelligence network to countermand a growing Soviet military threat...