Sentence examples for deemed counter from inspiring English sources

Asa'ib is engaged in several key battles against the Islamic State outside the capital, and it has a reputation for combatting al-munkar — activities, including consuming alcohol and engaging in extramarital sex, that are deemed counter to Islam — but Abu Muntathar denied that this was so.

The theory is that Britain can maintain its traditions of enthusiasm for the free market but with a state that is less squeamish when it comes to nurturing fledgling enterprises, getting involved when it looks as if markets have failed and, perhaps most drastically, stepping in if foreign interest in some strategic asset is deemed counter to the national interest.

A band of teen-age Red Guards stormed the family home, searching for anything that could be deemed counter-revolutionary.

Given this thesis of moral phenomenology that it is imbued with a quality of "out-there-ness"—and assuming (as seems plausible) that our moral intuitions will line up with our moral experience, it follows that the theory of moral objectification will be deemed counter-intuitive.

The protests, officially, were deemed a "counter-revolutionary rebellion".

A more serious problem may turn out to be George Osborne's campaign to secure watertight guarantees curbing eurozone policymaking if London deems it counter to UK interests or skewing fairness in the EU's single market in the eurozone's favour.

From 1933 the government had used the term entartete Kunst ("degenerate art") to stigmatize art it deemed to be counter to an idealized German identity.

In another humiliating climbdown, Athens could be forced to reverse measures it passed upon assuming power that are deemed to run counter to the bailout philosophy.

Xu was jailed following the 1989 Tiananmen protests for trying to organise an independent labour union, which the authorities deemed as a "counter revolutionary group".

"I informed the prime minister.... that if he deemed my convictions counter to the direction of the government he leads, then in that case I thought it necessary for me to be let go".

These sorts of agreements are deemed to be counter to public policy and thus unenforceable.