Sit-ins at lunch counters asserted a principle of equality against business owners' traditional legal right to decide whom to admit to their places.
SABMiller countered, asserting that Foster's had made "misleading and deceptive" statements in its full-year financial results, claims that Australian regulators declined to pursue.
Pope Suburban II issues a bull excommunicating "any who pilfer salted almonds and beverages without just recompense," but Antipope Inclement III counter- asserts a divine right to free snacking (Jus Pretzelonis) by anyone engaged in the holy work of killing Muslims.
They counter by asserting that they are not, in fact, good-looking.
It is inconclusive because, faced with the reply, the classical liberal critic can always simply counter-assert that "negative liberty" (again, liberty understood as the absence of intentional coercion) is actually the kind of liberty we should be primarily concerned with.
A defense lawyer, Diarmuid White, countered by asserting that prosecutors had challenged only whites.
Mr. Romney countered by asserting that the president had generated "turmoil" with Israel, noting that 38 Democratic senators had signed a letter urging him to repair the damage.
But the committee's ranking Republican, Senator John McCain of Arizona, countered by asserting that more troops were "vitally needed" in Afghanistan and that any delay in ordering more combat forces to the fight would put American lives at risk.
Strong was criticized by his opponents for his lack of military service and for the fact that he was a lawyer; he countered by asserting his patriotism through his association with Joseph Hawley.
Even as consumers increasingly demand their entertainment when and where they want it, a counter-trend will assert itself in 2014: box-office revenue will amount to $38bn, surpassing sales and rentals of DVDs and Blu-ray by $2bn.
It seems counter-intuitive to assert that simple, unsophisticated, non-engineered, timber and masonry structures that now seem so archaic as to be more easily associated with the medieval rather than modern world might be safer in large earthquakes than new structures of reinforced concrete, but such has proven to be the case in a number of recent earthquakes.
