We have come together because we see that patent owners and product makers have become trapped in an endless cycle of demands, counter-demands, and unproductive litigation.
Her network of services were in high demand, counter to the religious and social morals of the day.
Abortion rights groups have been demanding counter-terrorism resources for months.
Seen from Moscow, NATO expansion is beginning to look endless: the drive to "surround Russia with NATO," says Dmitri Peskov, a Kremlin spokesman, will demand "counter-measures".
But the health of the Internet demands a counter balance to Google.
The foreign ministry also establishes broad tactics, often regarding initial demands, bargaining counters, and minimum final position.
They have the status of overheard speech, of shouts from the crowd or disembodied rhetoric, of urgings, rebukes, demands and counter-demands, and they work against each other all the time.
Jon Murphy, head of organised-crime policy at the Association of Chief Police Officers, accepts that his beat "has fallen somewhere between the demands of counter-terrorism and neighbourhood policing", the two areas that have preoccupied the government most of late.
Several Council diplomats observed that this demand ran counter to a recent reform of the weapons teams by the Security Council, when they were reorganized to rely on an international staff of arms professionals rather than experts provided by individual countries.
Rather than investing in the next generation of high-tech weapons to stay far ahead of military competitors, the Pentagon has been focused more on the very different demands of counter-insurgency operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.While America has been distracted, China has been busy developing asymmetric capabilities specifically designed to counter America's power in the West Pacific.
