Sentence examples for counter to someone from inspiring English sources

If you listen deeply what you will likely find is that everything -- and it may not be overstating the case to say "everything" -- folks are asked to do in your organization operates at some level counter to someone else.

The counter, according to someone with knowledge of the talks: Wilson and goalie Philipp Grubauer.

"I am not going to contract out our counter-terrorism policy to someone else.

"On the other hand, ascribing a counter-revolutionary motive to someone with such close ties to the Kim dynasty itself seems to me a bad move.

My favorite is in the section called "The Power Gaze," on how to counter someone who is either trying to dominate you or bore you.

Sharing those aspirations with someone else runs counter to the way they are bred to achieve.

Walking around in jeans that someone else sullied feels counter to its air of imperviousness.

For you drugstore savvies, go ask someone at the cosmetics counter to recommend products for your skin.

Know how to counter someone who has a dominant handshake (palm down).

"It's not like selling something to someone over a counter.

"They make you sit there," she said, "then you have to talk to someone behind the counter, then you have to get on the telephone to talk to someone else, then you have to sit there again.