To counter impressions that he has a bias to the "anglosphere", her probable opponent in the election, Tony Abbott, leader of the conservative opposition coalition, has said that as prime minister his policy would have "more Jakarta, less Geneva".
There have also been discussions among officials in the Bush campaign about how to counter impressions, which many of the officials deem unfair, that Mr. Bush is insufficiently accessible and overly guarded.
The Israeli Army brought four foreign journalists, one of them an American, to see an outpost here, apparently in an effort to counter impressions that it was recklessly endangering Palestinian civilians.
The second chapter focuses on two approaches used by New York's boosters in the 1890s to counter impressions conveyed by reformers' detailed studies of the conditions endured by immigrants and their children in the city's congested tenement districts.
What better way to counter impressions of inexperience than partner with a seasoned pro like Van Doorn?
In terms of judicial or formal rulings on evidence, "counter-impression" seems a particularly subjective concept upon which to base such serious allegations.
The privileges committee found that: Crone had misled the culture committee in 2009 by giving a "counter-impression" of the significance of the confidentiality of the Gordon Taylor settlement, the scale of which was later concluded to relate to the fact he had been hacked.
Tom Crone, the company's former legal affairs manager, "misled the committee in 2009 by giving a counter-impression of the significance of confidentiality in the [Professional Footballers Associationn chief executive] Gordon Taylor settlement … and sought to mislead the committee about the commissioning of surveillance".
For every perception that tells us who he is, there is a counter-impression borne of who we are: Is he an example of heroic redemption, rising above life's hard knocks and his own mistakes?
Mr. Rumsfeld tried to counter that impression today.
