Sentence examples for counteract by from inspiring English sources

Some Muslim clerics issued edicts against shopping at Sainsbury, a campaign the company tried to counteract by posting passages from the Koran on supermarket walls.

Rangers' directors are likely to hail Ashley as the only man to revive the club's fortunes, a matter fans will audibly counteract by detail of the Sports Direct tycoon's watertight control over merchandising affairs at Ibrox.

In fact, von Hügel fully accepted the papacy but thought the methods of church government suffered from overcentralization, which he hoped to counteract by the healthy interplay of energy between head and members.

Scotland already boasts the European Marine Energy Centre, a research outfit, an advantage the West Country hopes to counteract by spending £15m on a similar organisation attached to the universities of Exeter and Plymouth.The economics are more complicated.

She drinks a lot – "Oh yes, I like a drink" – but doesn't worry about that, because "My doctor is always banging on about smoking, and I always counteract by saying, 'I do drink like a fish', and he just carries on as if I've not opened my mouth.

I have thought about it, but if I hid them I would perpetuate the childlike squeamishness that runs through popular culture – the kind of squeamishness the BBC said they were trying to counteract by making its Countryfile programme more "hard core".

But that was counteracted by a $262 billion surplus in services.

Thank heavens, then, that this potent shade of beige is being counteracted by outspoken characters elsewhere.

The problem of passivity is partly counteracted by the boon of ubiquity.

Much of the advantage has been counteracted by the shifting exchange rate.

A walking robot, by contrast, can fall in many directions, including some that cannot easily be counteracted by a motor.