They counter notions about lack of money and time to deal with seemingly esoteric issues by emphasizing how attention to the environment can reduce energy costs and lead to healthier eating habits in neighborhoods with no grocery stores.
Role models, such as family members, teaching staff and supervisors could be positive motivators, potentially countering the notions of research being Suited to Academic Career, or Difficult with Clinical Career.
At the time, Mr. Viscusi wondered about the absence of voices to counter those notions.
Tom Pauken, the chairman of the Texas Workforce Commission, said one of his top priorities this year would be countering that notion.
The phenomenon in Europe is roughly parallel to that in the United States, countering the notion that Americans are far more improvident.
Banishing tobacco from places where people socialize has proved to be a highly effective way of countering the notion that smoking is cool.
In the section titled "Views," Mr. Gates and Ms. Clemetson said, they want to present conflicting outlooks, countering the notion that there is a monolithic black point of view.
Harper's Iola Leroy; or, Shadows Uplifted (1892) attempted to counter specious notions of slavery popularized by white writers who idealized plantation life, while offering models of socially committed middle-class African Americans who exemplify the ideals of uplift that motivated much of Harper's writing.
It challenges right from the start any positive achievements; the entire first section of the museum is devoted to what it calls the myths of Trujillo, countering the notion of economic stability, for instance, by pointing out fraud in his government and his majority financial stake in national industries.
An article on June 4 about in vitro fertilization and the questions it raises for Jewish families described incorrectly Rabbi Elliot Dorff, who said that some in the Orthodox world in Israel have begun countering the notion that a child conceived by IVF is Jewish only if the egg donor is Jewish.
The commissioner argues the case boils down to determining "where a key red line necessary to safeguard all of us from criminals and repression should be set" — countering the notion it is merely about unlocking one iPhone used in a terrorist incident, as the US government has tried to suggest.
