For President Bush, it was the fulfillment of a campaign promise, and it was a victory for conservatives who have long argued that the restrictions against missile defenses were making it impossible to test and ultimately build a system designed to counter a different threat: limited-scale missile attacks by rogue states or terrorist groups.
But as part of a new wrinkle in Penn State's offense, the Nittany Lions' coaching staff put Royster in motion multiple times and lined him up at receiver, a move designed to counter a defense that was playing the run.
Last weekend, Princeton University hosted the 5th Annual Coming Together Interfaith Conference (CT5), a conference designed to counter a growing threat to our humanity: the gap in interfaith relations.
Arrow 3, a system designed to counter ballistic missiles, hit a target in space to pass its first full test in early December, and a week later Ramati said David's Sling, which guards against medium-range threats, had ended its testing phase and would be deployed by the Israeli air force.
In principle, the CPI a series devised to be compatible across the European Union should incorporate housing expenses, but this has been delayed as European statisticians work out how to do this.The RPI's credibility is likely to be further enhanced by an initiative designed to counter a widespread lack of public trust in the official inflation figures.
Meanwhile he cut his plan to run a £23 billion surplus for 2019/20 to £7bn – in a move designed to counter Labour's charge that the Tories would cut spending back to levels not seen since the 1930s.
Thanks to a law designed to counter the terrorism threat, some Singaporeans have ended up with walk-in closets that double as bomb shelters, or shelters that double as closets, depending on their point of view.
Senate Democrats unveiled a plan Tuesday to save $21 billion over the next decade by eliminating tax breaks for the nation's five biggest oil companies, a move designed to counter Republican demands to control the soaring national debt without new taxes.
The Missile Defense Agency calls its "most mature hit-to-kill weapon system". The Extended Area Protection and Survivability System (EAPS), a system designed to counter rocket, artillery and mortar fire in-flight.
[C8.] Coke Plans to Tie Pay to Diversity In a move designed to counter charges that Coca-Cola has not cared enough about building a diverse work force, Douglas N. Daft, Coke's chairman and chief executive, said that compensation at the company, including his own, would be closely tied to still-unannounced diversity goals.
The Turkish lira lost all the gains seen after the central bank raised the cost of overnight borrowing by 4.25 points to 12% once the prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, strongly attacked a move designed to counter high inflation and halt capital flight.
