Understandably, one administration official said, the government initially concentrated on countering threats to people, and the relative complacency about agriculture was partly a result of the nation's success in controlling disease.
It was very important to be concentrated for counter-attacks and set pieces.
While the world's flu fighters have concentrated on countering the H1N1 swine flu pandemic, avian influenza H5N1 has quietly continued to take its toll on both poultry and humans.
Two flights of each observation squadron concentrated on counter-battery observation and one became a "bombardment flight", working with particular artillery ' bombardment groups" for wire-cutting and trench-destruction; these flights became "contact-patrol flights" intended to observe the positions of British troops once the assault began.
Rather than taking on the Taliban, the greatest threat to the Afghan State, the Obama administration chose to concentrate its counter-terrorism efforts on targeting the Islamic State Khorasan province (IS-K).
A rapid and concentrated counter-attack might have given them a greater chance of defeating the airborne forces as they landed, leaving the amphibiously landed forces without their flank protection when they came ashore a few hours later.
Richard was determined to hold his army together, forcing the enemy to exhaust themselves in repeated charges, with the intention of holding his knights for a concentrated counter-attack at just the right moment.
In response, von Herff broke contact with the British; his plan was to join up with Cramer's Panzer Regiment 8 to mount a concentrated counter-attack the following morning.
Opposition fighters in the Free Syrian Army were over-confident in attempting to hold parts of Damascus and Aleppo before they had the means of doing so; counter-attacks concentrated the violence in places where there were lots of civilians to get hurt.
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This growth was concentrated in the over-the-counter market.
