Sentence examples for drives to counter from inspiring English sources

That includes new marketing strategies and taking the vehicle to select cities for public test drives to counter what a company spokesman saw as a "lack of brand awareness and misconceptions regarding its safety".

Within the last decade or so, the G8 has launched drives to counter disease, including HIV/Aids, and has announced development programmes and debt-relief schemes.

This weekend John Denham compared today's far right to Oswald Mosley's 1930s fascists, and announced a drive to counter the extremists within white working-class communities.

The Expressionists adopted the look of his style, which serviced their drive to counter French formalism by stressing the psychic toll and the compensatory exhilarations of the modernizing world.

Coast-to-coast polio drive to counter epidemic in Africa DAKAR/HARARE/GENEVA/EVANSTON, 25 February 2005 – A mass polio immunization drive starting today across Africa gained greater urgency from reports that a child has contracted polio in Ethiopia, the first case there in four years.

But as the 54% indicate, they see it as a security issue; that is, it is the (expensive and extravagant) way to counter drive-by and roadside shootings which have killed many settlers.

Frankish support for Northumbria thus appears to have been driven by a desire to counter Mercian influence in southern Britain, an area with long-standing ties to Francia.

Walsingham was driven by Protestant zeal to counter Catholicism, and sanctioned the use of torture against Catholic priests and suspected conspirators.

The expansion efforts by Xinhua are driven partly by a desire to counter what officials in the ruling Chinese Communist Party say is widespread bias against China in Western media reporting.

According to several scholars, Hindu right-wing organizations like the Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh came to Jharkhand in the 19th century to counter the conversion drives of the Christian missionaries.

But Palestinian officials fanned out in the news media to counter this Israeli drive, deploring terrorism and urging sympathy for the Palestinian plight.