Sentence examples for as counters from inspiring English sources

The five MPs of Sinn Fein, the party of the deputy first minister, Martin McGuinness (shown right), are useless as counters, since ancient republican doctrine prohibits them from taking their Commons seats.

In every session, teams play five rounds as terrorists and five as counters.

A few small workers served as counters, trying to estimate the size of the enemy's soldier force.

They like to be seen as counters to the long-held culture of fear associated with football coaches.

The principal mode of operation of these registers is as counters for external events or timers using the internal clock.

Before they worked as counters, many worked as accountants, computer programmers or engineers in their home countries.

Some of his conclusions are almost as counter-intuitive as positrons.

But stopping Ross is as counter-productive as counselling Sir Terry Wogan to watch the whimsical blarney.

Does that mean, as counter-intuitive as it sounds, that garbage is good?

The overabundance of content on the web is as counter-productive as it is beneficial.

Horrified, the Afghan government suspended its cooperation with the nearly conceived mining-as-counter-insurgency program.