Lately, though, many of these institutions and mechanisms have become procyclical: instead of countering trends, they amplify them.
Within the year, Baden-Powell was endorsing a change in policy, recommending that instead of countering an enemy charge with a countercharge of their own, the cavalry should dismount and engage them with rifle fire.
Instead of countering with stats that show this isn't the pandemic many think it is, I weakly mumbled that motorists run red lights too.
Instead of countering their criticisms, the US ambassador Clark Randt reports that "British billionaire Richard Branson agreed that British entrepreneurs are overeducated and that schooling does not prepare one for entering the business world".
Instead of countering Gore's move by calling for hand counts in Republican counties -- which would have offset Gore's Palm Beach advantage -- lawyer Baker went to federal court for an injunction to stop the hand counting.
Dr. Mahlman has pretty much given up on that hope, saying that many countries, including the United States, have essentially decided that the focus is going to be on painless, low-cost fixes like growing trees to sop up the most common greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, and on adapting to coming warming instead of countering it.
In an exhaustive question-and-answer session at the Ask Jeeves search site, Ella had typed, "How can I buy the fourth Harry Potter book?" Instead of countering that if she wanted an answer, she had first better go make that bed and put away that stack of clean laundry that had been sitting on her dresser for three days, the wise computer offered Ella what seemed like a solution.
Instead of countering Miami's speed with size -- which the Knicks tried unsuccessfully -- -- he elected to employ a heavy guard-and-wing core that relied on quickness to match the Heat's small-ball approach.
Instead of countering its poor public image, Myriad let the fear persist [ 9].
