Sentence examples for counterfoil to from inspiring English sources

Is this the counterfoil To sweetest music?

Breezy, confident and ultracompetent, Rajiv serves as a maddening counterfoil to his struggling younger brother, whose waffling and zigzag career path infuriates their father.

The president "was supporting the Halcones as a counterfoil to the activist left-wing," and "may well have given his blessing to the use of the group" against the demonstrators, the State Department said in its report on June 17 , 1971

This tale bookends Lost and Found in Johannesburg and its complexity is surely the perfect counterfoil to the idea that the only way to deal with an intruder in today's South Africa is to shoot four times through a locked door.

At his apartment, "after her eyes had adjusted to the darkness, she saw that the little world inside had barely changed; it was as if the little room had been encased in a time capsule.... Wang Qiyao failed to understand that it is precisely this myriad of unchanging little worlds that serves as a counterfoil to the tumultuous changes taking place in the outside world".

The Ottoman Empire, as the predominant Muslim power in the region and controller of the Caliphate in Constantinople, offered the only counterfoil to Russian and British ambitions.

While dátiles con tocino sounded a mite sweet, the Spanish Valderon blue cheese stuffing in the dates and the crisp bacon wrapped around them made a perfect counterfoil.

The approach taken at our Center has utilized the physical separation method of counterfoil) centrifugal elutnation (CCE), augmented by recovery of stem cells from lymphocyte-rich fractions by immunoaffinity selection of CD34+ stem cells.

And, as in other scholars' attempts to discern the shapes of the twenty-first-century city (see, for example, Caldeira 2001), these memories of a past, quintessentially modern city serve as a counterfoil and analytical comparison.

This may take the form of a pool or collection of tickets or their counterfoils from which the winners are extracted.

To plan, to plot".