Significados de countercheck em inglês

The 80th captured the gun; and the enemy, dismayed by this countercheck, did not venture to press on further.

Here his high idea of prerogative and of gubernatorial dignity met with a grievous countercheck from the dawning spirit of independence.

Every check and countercheck is used, which slowness of proceeding, or a repetition of it in other stages and under different forms, can effect.

"This is in the nature of a countercheck to the memorial?" said I.

Between these checks and counterchecks of European nations, the commerce of the United States was in peril of being swept entirely from the ocean.