Sentence examples for forced to counter from inspiring English sources

DreamWorks was forced to counter with an estimated $4 million to promote Saving Private Ryan.

Last year she was forced to counter reports that she had told a private dinner she thought London wouldn't have bid for the Games if those taking that decision had known about the coming recession.

Meanwhile, while Obama should have been revelling in his moment of triumph over Republicans, he is forced to counter comparisons with New Coke as the worst product launch in history.

And their Uruguayan opposite number promoted "a South Atlantic zone of peace", denouncing what he termed the "illegitimate activities of oil exploitation" in waters near the Falklands.Ms Fernández nodded approvingly, while Britain's harried ambassador, Mark Lyall Grant, was forced to counter the barrage of accusations.

The Osborne initiative had a shaky start when the Scottish secretary, Alistair Carmichael, was forced to counter the impression left by the chancellor that the package itself would include greater devolution of powers than already agreed by the parties in a joint statement in June.

The remarks are likely to infuriate both Downing Street and Nicky Morgan, the education secretary, who was forced to counter criticism of the pressure on school places earlier this year by saying the government had created more than 400,000 new ones since May 2010.

When Blockbuster and Hollywood Video adopted similar MVP programs, the cable and satellite companies were forced to counter-attack with on-demand offerings that were even easier to acquire and in fact were spooled from servers rather than downloaded to home machines.

Singapore police have stated their commitment to co-operating with European forces to counter match-fixing.

But the lure of tourist dollars is proving a difficult force to counter.

The two companies are interested in joining forces to counter the recently announced merger of America Online and Time Warner.

For all of their moral force, the deputies utterly lacked material force to counter the king's obvious intentions.