Sentence examples for The counterfoil from inspiring English sources

Is this the counterfoil To sweetest music?

The present system allows checking on how you voted by the simple method of the polling clerk issuing voting slips from a cheque-book-like arrangement, with the left-hand stub on which your polling number is recorded bearing an identifying number corresponding to the same number in the corner of the counterfoil which is torn off for you to vote on.

This tale bookends Lost and Found in Johannesburg and its complexity is surely the perfect counterfoil to the idea that the only way to deal with an intruder in today's South Africa is to shoot four times through a locked door.

The Ottoman Empire, as the predominant Muslim power in the region and controller of the Caliphate in Constantinople, offered the only counterfoil to Russian and British ambitions.

The president "was supporting the Halcones as a counterfoil to the activist left-wing," and "may well have given his blessing to the use of the group" against the demonstrators, the State Department said in its report on June 17 , 1971

At his apartment, "after her eyes had adjusted to the darkness, she saw that the little world inside had barely changed; it was as if the little room had been encased in a time capsule.... Wang Qiyao failed to understand that it is precisely this myriad of unchanging little worlds that serves as a counterfoil to the tumultuous changes taking place in the outside world".

NPO director Gareth McCann says it is the "fringe", a showcase named to show itself as a counterfoil to the official goings-on.

Under the best circumstances it results in a whiskey with a long, dry finish with just a hint of bitterness, a perfect counterfoil to the sweetness and spiciness created by extended wood contact.

The approach taken at our Center has utilized the physical separation method of counterfoil) centrifugal elutnation (CCE), augmented by recovery of stem cells from lymphocyte-rich fractions by immunoaffinity selection of CD34+ stem cells.

While dátiles con tocino sounded a mite sweet, the Spanish Valderon blue cheese stuffing in the dates and the crisp bacon wrapped around them made a perfect counterfoil.

Other Russian features include the liberal use of pedal points and the employment of chromaticism for decorative counterpoint and as an abrasive counterfoil to a melody.