Sentence examples for counter accepting from inspiring English sources

"From Claudia Rodriguez to her childhood friend," says an Asian clerk seen standing behind a post office counter, accepting a package.

At the deli, the Pelham Bay Mini-Market, the woman behind the counter accepts condolences.

Or to not even make a counter-offer, accepting the tax repeal but asking for some concession in return?

In some cases, their findings ran counter to accepted wisdom.

The war on terrorism is thus a permanent political tool, justifying pre-emptive action counter to accepted domestic and international norms.

Even though the plan ran counter to accepted security practice, Rees-Jones said Dodi assured him it had been approved in London by Fayed.

Raï, a type of Algerian popular music that arose in the 1920s in the port city of Oran and that self-consciously ran counter to accepted artistic and social mores.

But while the demographics of the dead confirm some of the broadly understood truths of the catastrophe -- three times as many men as women died; the greatest number of those who died were between the ages of 35 and 39 -- the data also hold some findings that run counter to accepted wisdom.

All you have to do is just swipe your watch at a counter that accepts PayPass and you're good to go.

Our map of science derived from clickstream data may thus run counter to accepted wisdom which is at this point mostly based on citation data, yet it offers a first-ever glimpse of this scholarly terra incognita.

All of the experts we spoke to were at pains to point out that, in their experience, accepting counter offers generally doesn't work out well in the long-term.