Sentence examples for combat the impression from inspiring English sources

Theresa May's conveniently short walk to Downing Street is designed to combat the impression that nobody is in control.

It was the perfect way to combat the impression that Huckabee's religious beliefs, which seem to rule out evolution, are extreme.

And Mr. Vance's aides moved aggressively to combat the impression that they had suffered a major setback, issuing a statement that ignored the officers' acquittal on rape charges and trumpeting the far-less-serious misdemeanor convictions.

"The authorities in New Jersey are fairly rigorous about judicial conduct, if only to combat the impression that New Jersey is a less than upright state," said John Leubsdorf, an expert in legal ethics who is a professor at Rutgers University School of Law in Newark.

After saying little about Netscape over the last year, America Online is now talking up its benefits largely to combat the impression in Silicon Valley, reported in a number of published accounts, that Netscape is in disarray and a shell of its former self.

And if it's a false alarm, the company isn't doing much to combat that impression — the most recent posts on both the Bebo and Team Bebo Twitter accounts date from November.

The events Monday and throughout June were meant to combat that impression and to help re-brand the party's image.

Clearly the impression was impressive.

That night, video footage of surging crowds and hand-to-hand combat went viral, and gave the impression that Spain was teetering on the edge of civil war.

This account confirmed the impression that Israeli combat aircraft, probably the French built Mirages, fly cover for the slower Skyhawks during the extended attacks on ground po sitions in the canal area.

Was he trying to create the impression that he saw combat?