Sentence examples for counter purposes from inspiring English sources

If anything, the money works at counter purposes to the Triple Crown.

Is the terrorist anymore representative of the grievance, injustice or issue than rape is of sex? Undoubtedly there are legitimate grievances and injustice, from an objective and/or subjective perspective, and such may even run at counter purposes -- see Palestinian/Israeli divide.

Its work in total will likely be less than the sum of individual efforts because members will duplicate work, pursue their own interests, or even labor at counter-purposes.

"I would leave it out on the counter, on purpose, for my parents".

The same percentage is concerned about government use of that data for non-counter-terrorism purposes.

Counter-terrorism policing has undergone significant changes on her watch such as the large reduction in the use of stop and search for counter-terrorism purposes.

The use of provincial reconstruction teams to deliver aid for explicitly counter-insurgency purposes in Afghanistan and Iraq will probably be a model for the future.

Under this system, a federal court (known as the FISA court) exists to issue secret warrants for spying for counter-espionage purposes.

Back in 2010, the US vice-president, Joe Biden, came to the European parliament and asked MEPs to support agreements allowing for the transfer of bank data to the US for counter-terrorism purposes.

The Obama administration's decision not to publicly locate the operation in either Afghanistan or Pakistan is probably the result of a longstanding US practice of merging the border areas between the countries for counter-terrorism purposes.

While the UK government denies it has a "targeted killing policy", the committee notes the phrase "sounds uncomfortably close to assassination" and that Britain does have "a policy to use lethal force abroad outside armed conflict for counter-terrorism purposes".