Sentence examples for countered him from inspiring English sources

Every time Worsley made an offer, a person bidding anonymously over the telephone countered him, and finally made off with the prize, at a price of seven thousand dollars.

The courts have countered him for the moment on some provisions, but the stay is temporary.

When the Obama administration sought to rein in the settlement process, Netanyahu's forces effectively countered him as an enemy of Israel.

De Duve and Miller have countered him by noting that if the polymerization at the surface was thermodynamically more favourable than in the bulk solution then the polymers could not detach without "paying" the respective energy fee and would have remained confined to the surface [ 200].

You don't know but you have to counter him, while aiming and shooting.

And as the tobacco lawyers tried to counter him, he just kept flinging stones.

If Mr. Gingrich can raise enough money to stay in the race, Mr. Romney will have to spend valuable time, resources and good will to keep countering him.

"They are trying to dance to the left and we are trying to counter him," said one council member about Mr. Bloomberg.

Obama and Clinton would be better positioned to counter him head on if they weren't guilty of different oversimplifications themselves.

Richard Wirthlin, Reagan's pollster, agreed, saying, "Over the years, Reagan knew that Mike wouldn't counter him unless it was very important".

The fight might have been cast as a simple matter of abiding by a wilderness designation, but after the park service worried that Mr. Lunny was beginning to lobby to extend his lease, they moved to counter him.