countersign
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It was to Mr. Badinter that Mr. Mitterrand turned in 1984 to countersign, in strict secrecy, the document in which the president recognized Mazarine Pingeot, his daughter from an adulterous relationship.
From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2024
Fourteen men suspected of receiving the passports or helping to countersign documents were arrested in Kent, Essex and Merseyside.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2021
Someone else would be paid to countersign the application.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2021
"Flash" was our code word, and countersign was "Thunder."
From Time Magazine Archive
‘Me Know You,’Johnny repeated this countersign and took his place behind Mr. Revere.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
"Howdy"* was the greeting, "Yippee" and "Yowee" were countersigns all the week.
From Time Magazine Archive
With as many shibboleths and countersigns as a dime novel, the Beggars have methods as effective as they are penny-dreadful.
From Time Magazine Archive
They invented countersigns and mottoes, planned conspiracies, and patterned themselves as nearly after the Carbonari as they could.
From Historic Boyhoods by Rupert Sargent Holland
I knew this word to be one of the Jewish countersigns, and asked the man if he had anything to communicate.
From Letters of George Borrow to the British and Foreign Bible Society by Thomas Herbert Darlow
The head of the church government is the Supreme Church Council, whose president countersigns the ecclesiastical laws approved by the king.
From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by J. H. Kurtz
Judit Varga, who was minister of justice at the time of the pardon, countersigned the clemency decision.
From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2024
Frank Miller’s "The Dark Knight Returns" depicts an aged, bloated, broken Bruce Wayne, lonely and perennially tormented not only by the murder he witnessed as a child but by the countless others he’s countersigned since.
From Salon ● Nov. 9, 2018
However, Mr Wheat did strongly recommend that any pardon not personally autographed by the president be countersigned by the attorney general.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2017
Despite the institute's evident professionalism, its anonymity and mysteriousness made reviewers skittish—even after they had received countersigned contracts.
From Slate ● Feb. 10, 2012
This was countersigned by General Gilmore, who took Hunter’s place as commander of the Department of the South.
From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry
The final defendant, Kevin Crinnion, 73, is alleged to have helped with passport applications, including countersigning documents.
From BBC ● Jan. 11, 2023
This extraordinary statement, though entirely undercut in British fashion by its qualifying clause, seemed to mark the first admission by His Majesty's Government that in countersigning Adolf Hitler they may have historically blundered.
From Time Magazine Archive
Walter, who went to the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Finance, started out with his father in the bookkeeper's office, countersigning checks so that he could see where the money went.
From Time Magazine Archive
How you annoy me with this eternal signing and countersigning!
From The Daughter of an Empress by Nathaniel Greene
He relates his difficulties with Pedro Alvarez over the countersigning of Sangley licenses.
