But delivering a surplus is vital for Labor to counter long-standing voter perceptions of the party as poor economic managers and recover ground lost after a series of bungled spending projects ahead of last year's dead-heat elections.
The trial also revealed evidence that tended to counter long-held assumptions about Mr. bin Laden's followers, who have long been portrayed as marching in ideological lock step, ready to pay any price, including death, for his cause.
Surprisingly, experimental structures, proteomic analyses and bioinformatics have revealed unexpected architectures that counter long-held views on TM protein structure and stability.
Understandably, the cultural expectation held by Chinese men that women should be docile and tender may greatly complicate men's search for a partner, as Chinese women's greater selection power, coupled with changes in the broader culture of dating, may directly counter long-standing gendered expectations (see Parrish and Farrer 2000).
Dare I? Still, it's pleasing to be able to see the back of the cupboard again – the humble equivalent, I suppose, of the sleek counters, long as motorway trunk roads, that some people seem to take for granted.
The heart of the administration's request is $450 million to help Israel pay for the withdrawal of its troops from southern Lebanon and for countering long-range security threats from Iran and Iraq.
On the counter, as long as your counter isn't a coral reef.
The counter was long and well worn, the stool cushions cratered.
Behind the counter, a long line of cutters jab carving forks into metal steam boxes containing brick-red pastrami and melt-in-the-mouth corned beef.
I was buying ravioli there last year and I said to the lady at the counter, "How long are they good for?" and she said, "Four or five hours".
Dickens's fable and its stage and cinematic manifestations counter the long slowing down of the heart with a story of renewal and redemption.
