Word: countermand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...Stalin's day, political commissars could countermand the orders of line officers. This is no longer true, but the party still dominates the military. No professional soldier serves on either the Politburo or the Central Committee's powerful Secretariat. (Defense Minister Ustinov's primary military experience was managing defense-related industries.) Not that the military is without clout. There appears to be a symbiotic relationship between the military and the party leadership that Rand Corporation Expert Benjamin Lambeth sums up as a "mutual accommodation in which the military accepts the legitimacy of the party's supremacy in return for getting...