Reading were comfortable, counter-attacking mostly through Manset.
Pacquiao looking comfortable now, countering at will, landing punches from all sorts of angles.
Wales showed in winning the Grand Slam in 2005 that they are comfortable in counter-attack mode.
The fact is, there is another but lesser-known area in which the Obama administration has not been comfortable in countering what it pointed to earlier as troubling Russian assertiveness.
"I'm comfortable," Abdullah countered stubbornly.
A very comfortable and relaxed counter where you watch the cooks bend in concentration over course after course.
The hotels operation, which runs the famous Taj in Mumbai, is less comfortable for bean-counters than for guests.
To make her parents feel more comfortable, Ms. Agrawal countered by proposing to have the couches professionally cleaned before they go to the new place.
However there was a wobble when Ivory Coast threatened a late fightback, while they have been more comfortable on the counter-attack than when they have had to find a way through massed defences.
You may go for a stylish sofa that is not the most comfortable, or a kitchen counter in a beautiful but impractical marble, but a highly functional W.C. is nonnegotiable.
