Sentence examples for been counter from inspiring English sources

"The trend in New Jersey is pretty promising and it's been counter to what's been happening in the rest of the Northeast," said Brian Lego, an analyst at Economy.com, of West Chester, Pa., an economic consulting company that specializes in regional economics.

Colonial and post-colonial administration policies have often been counter to the perceived interests of mobile pastoral populations including sedentarisation, forced enrolment in schools, land alienation, inhibition of movement and imposition of barriers and borders.

"His predictions are wrong in terms of the number of people coming forward, his cost cutting measures have been counter productive and he's now putting officers, the public and indeed prisoners at risk".

But like the athletes who have been dealt injustice (admittedly with far less at stake than in the case of Israel), the wisest course of action for that nation's leaders and supporters would be to focus on their future game plan and try to learn from the many questionable decisions its own government has made that might have been counter productive.

The use of Sec could have been counter selected by the introduction of oxygen into the earth's atmosphere.

But that then would have been counter to providing him with any particular form of, you know, autonomy.

Yet restrictions on movement and trading have been counter-productive.

Some of these escapades, he argued, have been counter-productive.

Amazon's most important bets have been counter-intuitive.

Yet there is a good case that such opportunism would have been counter-productive.

There have also been counter-demonstrations by Japanese citizens in defence of those attacked.