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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

It took several weeks and much signing and countersigning.

From Molly Brown's Orchard Home by Speed, Nell

He relates his difficulties with Pedro Alvarez over the countersigning of Sangley licenses.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 19 of 55 1620-1621 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by Robertson, James Alexander