Sentence examples similar to adopt counter from inspiring English sources

Back in the day, performers could adopt counter-cultural personas based on cool aloofness or grizzled decadence and still watch the record and ticket sales rack up.

Although several thousand Pakistani soldiers have died fighting Islamist extremists, the Pakistani security establishment has been slow to adopt counter-insurgency methods of war fighting.

This is another category of risk, when hedging enormous positions by adopting counter-positions.

In response the British adopted counter-insurgency tactics, including a scorched earth policy involving the burning of houses and crops, the establishment of concentration camps for Boer women and children, and a system of blockhouses and field obstacles to limit Boer mobility and to protect railway communications.

As it would be impossible to limit calls to occur only during task boundaries, HCWs would have to learn to cope by adopting counter-measures such as deliberately slowing down their work processes during the phone interruption.

He made clear that Germany had been urging Nato to adopt a counter-insurgency strategy in Afghanistan long before it was finally adopted, but had been sneered at for suggesting the military approach could not work on its own.

That's why VoteVets.org has always called on President Obama to adopt a counter-terror mission in the region.

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