That was the upshot of last month's unprepared, and in the end counter-productive, mission by Colin Powell, America's secretary of state.
In 2006 the Saudis threatened to end counter-terrorist cooperation with the UK unless the serious fraud office dropped its investigation into BAE Systems over the al-Yamamah arms deal.
It's a move, if implemented, that would effectively end counter-insurgency operations and make NATO forces move towards an Advise, Train, and Assist (ATA) role, much like the one in Iraq in 2011.
One could read the ending, counter to how I think Koja intended it, as an admonition to remain with one's kind.
A young man who wanted to buy Van De Velde's "Ideal Marriage" at Macy's, was sent to the fiction department, the domestic science department, and the juvenile training department, before he finally found it at the odds and ends counter.
Also, as shown in Figure 2A, both the 3'-end COLD1_10_H04.b1_A029, displayed as a reverse complement view, and its 5'-end counter part sequence, COLD1_10_H04.g1_A029, contain the "double-termini adapters" structure to join two different transcripts and form a chimeric cDNA insert.
A frenetic period of end-to-end counter-attacking offered Halfpenny the moment he had been craving since a late, long-range penalty attempt fell short in Wales' failed 2011 World Cup quarter-final against France.
With more than a quarter century at the sharp end of counter-terrorism operations, Lambert is scarcely a bleeding-heart liberal.
Most dramatically, ahead of a planned protest in Leipzig on 9 October, the East German authorities threatened a Tiananmen-style massacre, promising to "end these counter-revolutionary actions once and for all – if need be, with weapons in our hands".
The Leicester centre Matt Smith began and ended a counter attack from his own half and Youngs tapped and ran in another try, with Flood's kicking taking the Tigers out of reach.
And, later in the day, Anderson swung the second new ball into the pads of Jadeja to end a counter-attacking 31.
