Sentence examples for countering efforts from inspiring English sources

Bob Herbert ("Protect the Vote," column, Sept. 13) describes recent attempts to disenfranchise voters and the countering efforts to ensure a fair election in November.

"The drug demand in the United States certainly exacerbates challenges placed upon our neighboring countries fighting against these organizations — and why it is so important that we partner with them in their countering efforts," said Vice Adm.

Political experts said the impact would be felt across Europe, countering efforts to strengthen the 15-nation European Union before its planned expansion with 10 new members next year.

No surprise though that the greatest impact has been in countering efforts to "regulate the Internet," as well as "revolutions" led by the young as the "Arab Spring".

Blasim said he planned to release The Iraqi Christ in Arabic as a free ebook to counter efforts to censor it.

In postwar Europe, conservative parties were the principal supporters of welfare-state policies in order to counter efforts by socialists and communists to abolish capitalism altogether.

General Sanchez predicted that the 110,000 American troops that are to remain after the transfer of sovereignty will be able to counter efforts to destabilize the country.

Internet titans Facebook, Google, Amazon and Yahoo on Wednesday will launch a new lobbying association to counter efforts by federal regulators to strap new rules to their industry.

It counters efforts by Israel's leaders to use the legitimacy of democratic Israel to legitimize the occupation and by Israel's adversaries to use the illegitimacy of the occupation to delegitimize democratic Israel.

The bills aim to counter efforts by health plans to reduce the amount they pay for expensive medicines by making the patients pay a percentage, typically 20 to 35 percent, of the cost.

In the context of a coastal city these dissonant governance structures translate into conventional (Weberian) forms of bureaucracy that counter efforts at promoting Integrated Coastal Management, the key tenets being institutional learning, collaboration, deliberation, flexibility and adaptive management.