Sentence examples for counter unexpected from inspiring English sources

Sometimes, of course, a combination of the two is needed: if other drivers' moves are not certain, then the car needs to be controlled cautiously to counter unexpected developments.

He used his wrists to adjust the angle of the bat at the last second, allowing him to counter unexpected late movement of the ball.

To counter the unexpected ability of midget submarines to take on full warships, the long-term fix will mean greatly expanding South Korea's antisubmarine network to cover vast stretches of water previously thought to be too shallow to warrant monitoring closely — with sonar and air patrols, for instance.

The decision was described by senior officials as designed solely to protect populated areas from space debris, and not to showcase how the emerging missile defense arsenal could be reprogrammed to counter an unexpected threat: in this case hazardous rocket fuel aboard the dead satellite.

This nation of 80 million must balance a proud democratic tradition with a desire to avoid an attack such as the one on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, while countering an unexpected increase of anti-Muslim sentiment.

Past an expected L-shaped counter is an unexpected cluster of artfully set tables near an enormous window looking toward the theater district.

But in an unexpected counter trend, the latest fund-raising reports show that the mayor has raised far more money than the first lady.

We had dropped by the sliver of a shop — anywhere else in the United States you would call it a hallway — for the house-made mozzarella, and there on the counter was an unexpected tumble of fresh figs, which they were giving away for free.

Local SA led to unexpected and counter-intuitive results, indicating that the model output (population size) was much more sensitive to the fecundity threshold (length at first parturition) than to the fecundity parameter (brood size).

That enables us to keep an open mind, and leads us to unexpected, almost counter-intuitive places; toward industries we wouldn't necessarily have considered or that wouldn't have come across our radar if we'd been driven by themes instead.

Surprisingly, experimental structures, proteomic analyses and bioinformatics have revealed unexpected architectures that counter long-held views on TM protein structure and stability.