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Chris -- 2018-04-11
This possible eggcorn suggests a man or men resisting an earlier instruction, but the ’-ed’ ending sits awkwardly at times; I tried ‘countermanneded’ but without success. 38 ghits.
... out the errant MLA found guilty of corruption is within the exclusive purview of parliament and cannot be second-guessed or countermanned by the courts, ...
mboard.rediff.com/board/board.php?boardid=news2006jan20sting1 – 40k – Cached
Fortunately, some historians say that Hitler countermanned many of his European orders otherwise the freeing of Europe would have lasted much longer. ...
www.thehighroad.org/archive/index.php/t-19972.html – 57k – Cached
Mr. Rai was able to countermanned the order by the police commissioner to shoot protestors if needed. If this had happened, BG would have descended into a …
www.guyanaundersiege.com/Leaders/Rai/BalramSinghRai.htm – 51k – Cached
If we feel that we will be counter-manned by the site founders at every turn, your site will fail because it will be perceived not as public debate. ...
www.metjax.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-2987.html – 78k – Cached
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