Sentence examples for counter mounting from inspiring English sources

Perhaps to counter mounting international criticism, Vietnam's Communist regime recently released Thich Quang Do, a well-known dissident Buddhist monk.

Without transcripts or exhibits, it's impossible to know how Donovan made his case before the grand jury, and to counter mounting public skepticism about the proceedings.

The images were part of a broad effort by the state-run media on Sunday to defend the government's relief efforts and to counter mounting international criticism over its reluctance to permit foreign aid workers to enter the country.

His charismatic appeal helps al-Qaida drive recruitment and counter mounting criticism of their tactics in the Muslim world, including from fellow jihadists, arguably al-Qaida's greatest current challenge.

The Pentagon struggled on two fronts today to counter mounting criticism of the accidental sinking of a Japanese fishing vessel by the American nuclear submarine Greeneville, as Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld ordered a temporary ban on civilians sitting at the controls of any military equipment and the Navy announced the dispatch of a senior admiral to Japan.

The climate-change deniers lifted their script straight from the tobacco lobby's campaign of the 1970s to counter mounting evidence linking cigarette smoking to cancer and other diseases.

The Geiger counter mounted 100 yards in front of the electrified fence that surrounds the sarcophagus flashes 1,430 microroentgens per hour.

We nine volunteers and our instructors managed to finish almost everything else in the house by working into the night for two weeks straight:  We installed the kitchen cabinets and counter, mounted the lighting fixtures and plumbed the sinks.

Finger Tapping Test The Finger Tapping Test (FTT) is a test of motor speed that consists of a mechanical counter mounted on a small (10″ × 10″) board and on which a specially designed arm is mounted that measures the number of oscillations of the finger.

They often formed the large close order defensive formations of shiltrons, able to counter mounted knights as they did at Bannockburn, but vulnerable to arrows (and later artillery fire) and relatively immobile, as they proved at Halidon Hill.

They often formed the large close order defensive formations of shiltrons, able to counter mounted knights as they did at Bannockburn, or infantry assault as at Otterburn in 1388, but vulnerable to arrows (and later artillery fire) and relatively immobile, as they proved at Halidon Hill in 1333 and Humbleton Hill in 1402.