Sentence examples for capable of countering from inspiring English sources

The first field tactics that proved capable of countering the knight were built around the bow and the crossbow.

One casualty of the recent confrontations has been the widespread notion that Sunni militias capable of countering Hezbollah were being trained in Lebanon, said Mr. Naoum, the columnist.

German forces in the Cotentin capable of countering the airborne divisions were two regiments from the 91st Division (including one battalion of tanks) and the 6th Parachute Regiment.

After World War II the Soviet Union rose to challenge U.S. political and military power, and the country retained the draft to maintain a large standing army capable of countering potential Soviet aggression.

As President Bush prepares to meet with a senior Chinese official, his administration faces two major military decisions: whether to design a missile defense capable of countering China's nuclear force and whether to sell destroyers to Taiwan, both of which could put the United States on a collision course with Beijing.

The final total will be a fraction of the $900m Mayor Michael Bloomberg asked for on the eve of the Iraq war.New York is thus left in the unenviable position of being the most likely target of another terrorist attack and, simultaneously, the place least financially capable of countering the threat.

The president's efforts to control soccer like his moves to build Turkey's police into a force capable of counter-balancing the military conjures up comparisons between the increasingly authoritarian state envisioned by Mr. Erdogan and Arab autocrats who distrustful of their militaries built regimes reliant on security forces.

At birth, the young shark is already capable of counter-illumination with 80% of its ventral surface luminescent.

It is Beijing's way of countering the dominance of America's surface fleet based upon highly-capable aircraft carrier battle groups.

Massialas proved equally capable of the counter-strike and as 8-4 became 12-6, there was no way back for the Briton.

Survival under such conditions requires metabolically active bacteria capable of producing counter-immune effectors [ 34, 37, 38].