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
A pub licensee was also found to countersign the application.
From BBC ● Jan. 11, 2023
Someone else would be paid to countersign the application.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2021
Last week Jesse Jones asked the House of Representatives to countersign a blank check already drawn for him by the Senate.
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
The presiding officer signs, and the Recorder countersigns it.
From The Judicial Murder of Mary E. Surratt by DeWitt, David Miller
It was his duty to record the paroles and countersigns, the various orders for the next day, and to see that they were attended to.
From Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59 by Canavan, M. J. (Michael Joseph)
They hung 'round the market, and they patrolled the streets, and they had signs and countersigns, and more tomfoolery than would run a circus.
From The Other Fellow by Smith, Francis Hopkinson
The president will sign the warrant of appointment for the members of the government and the warrant of appointment of the attorney general, each of which will be countersigned by the taoiseach.
From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2025
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
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
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
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
It took several weeks and much signing and countersigning.
From Molly Brown's Orchard Home by Speed, Nell
How you annoy me with this eternal signing and countersigning!
From The Daughter of an Empress by Greene, Nathaniel
