"counter" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The Protection of Trading Interests Act 1980 was a piece of legislation passed by the British Parliament to counter American assertions of extraterritorial jurisdiction.
- His comments appeared to represent an effort to counter repeated assertions by political professionals that his 1988 effort had run into serious trouble.
- In making the cuts the panel countered assertions by senior Defense Department officials that further reductions would undermine combat readiness and require the military to force out 300,000 troops next year.
- But they countered assertions that conditions in the agency and the coal fields had deteriorated under the Clinton Administration.
- The paper outlined the "brilliantly conceived and executed" 20-year strategy of countering assertions that smoking produces cancer by "creating doubt about the health charge without actually denying it."
- This awareness of humanity's enormous behavioral plasticity is particularly critical for feminists to keep in mind, the biologists said, to counter recurring assertions that women are naturally good at one thing, men at another.
- The spot is intended to counter assertions by Democrats that Republicans in Congress have not accomplished much.
- Countering assertions by the state media of Jabhat al-Nusra's involvement, opposition sources described them as rebels from the Tawhid Brigades who were fighting government forces around the mosque.
- Their accounts countered Indian assertions that the militants have been preventing civilians from leaving the town of Jaffna, a Tamil stronghold.
- The findings counter assertions from the lead industry that genetic and socioeconomic factors are mainly responsible for the lowered intelligence that has been linked to lead.
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