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
Evidently assuming that he could make restitution when the market rose again, he began writing out checks, and with remarkable ease persuaded other Bruce officers to countersign them.
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
Verbeck received their numbers and countersigns, and gave out copies of the orders.
From The Black Star A Detective Story by Johnston McCulley
They reached New York at two o'clock on the 25th, and Isaac Low countersigns.
From The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn by Henry P. Johnston
Every act of the President must be countersigned by at least one minister, and every minister is responsible politically and legally for all acts which he countersigns or executes.
From The Governments of Europe by Frederic Austin Ogg
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
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
There was a special entrance for soldiers and a special exit for soldiers, and at both of these a long file of blue-clad poilus waited for the countersigning of their furlough slips and military tickets.
From A Volunteer Poilu by Henry Beston
It took several weeks and much signing and countersigning.
From Molly Brown's Orchard Home by Nell Speed
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