Sentence examples for counteract her from inspiring English sources

My protestations that we were about to have a great meal of the freshest fish did nothing to counteract her misgivings.

In episode one, the ship has to stall while a passenger – on morphine to counteract her chronic pain – is airlifted to hospital.

Their relationship eclipses all others here; we care little about Goneril's and Regan's struggles, and we barely notice Cordelia (Kristen Bush) and her steady effort to counteract her sisters' capitalist greed with a kind of humane socialism.

We care little about Goneril's and Regan's struggles, and we barely notice Cordelia (Kristen Bush) and her steady effort to counteract her sisters' capitalist greed with a kind of humane socialism.

They were mainly over me, him attempting to counteract her unending need to indulge me with what little money we did have.

I was completely consumed with keeping germs away from her, keeping her on the correct dose of daily steroids to counteract her Bronchial Pulmonary Dysplasia (caused by her premature birth), and arranging her 5-day a week intervention service schedule.

Seven aces, which counteracted her double faults and came at crucial junctures, helped extricate Capriati from trouble in the last two sets.

At the time, her father's response devastated Stanton: "Oh, my daughter, I wish you were a boy!" Understanding from this that her father valued boys above girls, Stanton tearfully took her disappointment to Hosack, whose firm belief in her abilities counteracted her father's perceived disparagement.

(emphasis added) The apparent objectivity of this numeric sign, with its comparatively unambiguous meaning, provided a means of counteracting her oncologist's dismissal of her subjective sense of dis-ease.

Look closely at the American Apparel campaign, and you'll see that, although O'Shaughnessy is decades away from her high-school prom, any markers of ageing are counteracted by her girlish slimness, along with an ability to extend her right leg at a 90-degree angle to her left.

In reality Sister Nyirumbe has dedicated her life to counteracting violence in her native Uganda.