Sentence examples for counterclaim from inspiring English sources

There was a counterclaim by yet a third team last year, and a final verdict on "bubble fusion" is still not in.

The United States made an initial complaint about government subsidies two months ago, prompting an immediate counterclaim by the Europeans.Double jeopardyLarry Silverstein, a property developer, won a court battle to force some insurers of the World Trade Centre in New York to recognise the September 11th attacks as two separate events.

The competition and the similarities were close enough for Apple to sue Samsung for patent infringement in several countries, spurring the South Korean firm to counterclaim that it had been ripped off by Apple as well.

The result has been the diverting spectacle of claim and counterclaim, as the opposing camps slug it out.The first counter-punch from the bosses of SocGen and Paribas was to insist that BNP's bid could "not be described as friendly" (ie, it was hostile).

When BAWAG tried to get its money back, other angry creditors filed a counterclaim for $1.3 billion, alleging that bank officials had been complicit in the fraud surrounding Refco's downfall.

MORI, however, has been reluctant to do this, at least in the figures which it chooses to feature in its main outlet, the Times.Doubtless the election campaign will see much claim and counterclaim about which firm's methods are best.

But in the past two weeks six people have been killed in the breakaway (and Russian-backed) region of South Ossetia.Claim and counterclaim abound.

The transaction was a "sham", say prosecutors, in which Merrill assumed no risk.Such allegations, which have been vehemently denied by Merrill, are an example of the whirlwind of claim and counterclaim that is engulfing Wall Street's finest and many of its former clients.

Parts of the city were reported to be burning as Georgia's president, Mikheil Saakashvili, declared that his forces had "freed" much of the area from separatist control.The immediate cause of the fighting is unclear as claim and counterclaim abound.

After the war the status of Al-ʿAqabah was in dispute; Britain claimed an outlet on the Gulf of Aqaba for its newly created protectorate of Transjordan (technically part of the Palestine mandate), while the Kingdom of Hejaz based a counterclaim to the town and regions to the north on the former political subdivisions of the Ottoman Empire.

Thus, a counterclaim was advanced that developing countries today are structurally different from the advanced countries and so will have to develop along different lines.