Sentence examples for counteraction in from inspiring English sources

From October 1939 to March 1940, successive plans were developed for counteraction in the event of a German offensive through Belgium all of them based on the assumption that the Germans would come across the plain north of Namur, not across the hilly and wooded Ardennes.

The lack of responsiveness to TGF-beta counteraction in old mice is not likely a result of alterations in Smad expression, as they are unaffected or even elevated by aging.

These superficially paradoxical observations between viral replication in culture and the evolutionary conservation of tetherin counteraction in primate lentiviruses suggest that tetherin's contribution to the antiviral immune response is not limited to physical inhibition of virion release.

A materialized threat provokes a sequence of chained events and counteractions in the grid.

Zoonotic spread of the Vpu SIV of sooty mangabeys (SIVsm) to become HIV-2, whose Nef protein cannot target human tetherin, resulted in tetherin counteraction developing in the envelope protein (Env) (Le Tortorec and Neil, 2009).

By "physical counteraction," analysts in Seoul said, North Korea most likely meant detonating another nuclear device to show advances in bomb making.

Mythologist Joseph Campbell describes the importance of our symbols and myths: "It has always been the prime function of mythology & rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward, in counteraction to those constant human fantasies that tend to tie it back".

The politically motivated killing of a white man, Petrus Oberholzer, near Melsetter by ZANU insurgents on 4 July 1964 marked the start of intensified black nationalist violence and police counteraction that culminated in the banning of ZANU and PCC/ZAPU on 26 August, with most of the two movements' respective leaders concurrently jailed or restricted.

This unphysiologically long stimulation causes an endocrine counteraction: GnRH analogues in this regard are a homogenous class of medicines exerting their effects by de-sensitization of receptors in the anterior pituitary gland rather than by single substance effects.

Although this novel AMPK activation supports a role for the kinase in counteraction of oxidative stress, we demonstrate that increased AMPK activity does not simply translate to increased eNOS phosphorylation in these subjects and is therefore not sufficient to attenuate the more severe endothelial dysfunction characteristic of diabetic patients.

We postulate that the lack of responsiveness to TGF-beta counteraction of IL-1 in old mice is due to an overall lack of responsiveness to TGF-beta caused by a down regulation of receptors and/or Smad expression or and increase in inhibitory Smads.