Sentence examples for a platform to counter from inspiring English sources

Then last year, when the story of five girls (including one Tibetan) who were burned to death in the Lhasa riots was apparently not "news enough" in the English newspapers I read, when a Chinese paralympian had to defend her torch in a wheelchair in Paris, I was motivated to establish a platform to counter what I perceived as widespread biases in the western media.

Launched in Barcelona 2006 as a regional platform to counter Catalan separatism, Ciudadanos began testing the waters for a national expansion in 2012, said Iñaki Ellakuria Bastida, one of the authors of Alternativa naranja (Orange alternative), which explores the rise of Ciudadanos.

"There was that phase in the 1990s when Ellison was enchanted with a separate computing platform to counter Microsoft," says analyst Richard Chu at SG Cowen Securities in Boston.

Apple has a lot of catching up to do if it wants to build a robust mapping platform to counter Google Maps, so it doesn't surprise me that it's going out of its way to lure former and current Google Maps employees.

The racial dynamic of minstrelsy was complex – it was performed by African-American and Anglo actors alike – but while African-American performers often sought to gain financial security from the practice and in some cases use their platform to counter negative public stereotypes of themselves, white performers reinforced those stereotypes.

Watford worked hard at funnelling a lot of bodies back quickly to try to deny Arsenal's attack time and space and to hustle out opportunities, giving themselves the platform to counter-attack.

This taps into a perennial complaint: that if we give a platform to one opinion, we should be obliged to give voice to the counter position.

A platform to inspire change.

"Of course, at that time I didn't have so much of a platform or a microphone to counter some of the falsehoods and goofy, stupid things that some of the news channels say and do".

What I don't know is whether he has developed a platform that is counter to the race-bating, science hating, hillbilly-sitting-on-his-porch-in-boxer-shorts-with-shot-gun-who-is-actually-a-corporate-mind-slave platform that is the coin of the Republican realm these days.

In interviews, Democrats around the country said their losses had left them without a platform or standard-bearer to counter the powerful voice of the White House.