Sentence examples for cannot counter from inspiring English sources

Notre Dame, which plays four guards, cannot counter that size.

Meanwhile, maintaining this notionally independent deterrent is starving our conventional forces of the ability to respond to those same real-world threats that we actually face but cannot counter.

American development aid cannot counter decades of Pakistani neglect, but it can play a productive role in addressing critical needs.

Honesty becomes the one excuse that we cannot counter.

Radicalisation is not brainwashing and we cannot counter it if we pretend it is.

The problem it cannot counter, however, is that the whole exercise is tawdry.

Muslim clerics should recognise that theoretical fatwas cannot sufficiently counter what I call "kinetic" sharia, consisting of stories and actions carried out by authoritative Muslim figures in early Islam, on which Isis relies heavily to justify its ideology.

State Department officials have complained that they cannot effectively counter civilian death claims they believe are hugely inflated because the program is classified — a subject of lively debate inside the administration, one official said.

But at least one critic, Nigerian journalist Karibu R. Anwar, has warned that that the initiative will be an "exercise in futility" if Nigeria's under-resourced military cannot effectively counter Boko Haram attacks.

If your parents raise an objection that you cannot immediately counter, ask for time to consider the problem.

Sometimes when you are dealing with a hardwired behavior like a border collie that is herding the neighborhood kids instead of sheep, you cannot easily counter train that out.