Sentence examples for countered attempts from inspiring English sources
Swofford countered attempts to paint A.C.C. expansion as a move that would change the landscape of college athletics.
Outside standards in relation to ECD were, to some degree, still imposed and this countered attempts to look at alternatives to centre-based care.
The predominance of the professional view in the framing of the NCDs problem, to the exclusion of the patient view, has been noted (40), and it seems clear that this is one part of a bigger problem in the NCD agenda-setting: the lack of community and advocate participation that has in previous cases countered attempts to medicalize human experience and ill health.
Terrorists strategically counter attempts to kick them off popular platforms.
President Dmitri A. Medvedev issued a decree on Tuesday ordering "the creation of a presidential commission to counter attempts to harm Russian interests by falsifying history".
More recently, he helped lead an effort to counter attempts by Reform and Conservative Jews to gain official recognition of non-Orthodox rabbis in Israel.
More American troops and helicopters were called in today to counter attempts by the Taliban and Al Qaeda to bolster the Islamic fighters who are struggling to hang on to their mountaintop redoubts.
Another lever was what Representative Christopher Shays, Republican of Connecticut, said was more than $175 million in lobbying fees the companies spent over 10 years, in part to counter attempts at stronger oversight.
Witnesses to the review have been doing their best to convince the commissioners about the virtue of expanding the remit of the freedom of information act (FoIa) as a way of countering attempts to water it down.
But they include countering attempts at asserting dominance or control over sea lanes, Arctic resources (which are rapidly opening up as a result of melting sea ice), or space.
The United States should use all relevant diplomatic forums – the United Nations, the G8 and G20 meetings, and so on – to press for a liberal concept of Internet freedom, and to counter attempts by other states to adopt norms that would restrict expression online.
