Sentence examples for mount a counteroffensive from inspiring English sources

Spencer has to mount a counteroffensive.

With the momentum of the Soviet counteroffensive thus slowed, the Germans made good their retreat to the Dnepr along the easier routes of the Black Sea littoral and were able, before the end of February 1943, to mount a counteroffensive of their own.

Clever people calling themselves environmentalists, human rights campaigners, tort lawyers, etc. have played on fears and superstitions and employed ingenious arguments based on science and pseudoscience to mount a counteroffensive against capitalist advances.

Mounting a counteroffensive is the Cyprus Fiduciary Association, an industry lobbying group.

On the other side of the debate, Lorillard, the cigarette company that would stand to lose the most from a ban on menthol, is mounting a counteroffensive.

Ptolemy's forces mounted a counteroffensive, capturing Jerusalem; but in 201 the Seleucid king returned, defeating the Ptolemaic army and later seizing the Ptolemaic lands in Asia Minor.

Now that critics of affirmative action have persuaded the Supreme Court to consider whether black and Hispanic applicants are taking the rightful spots of more-qualified whites, some supporters of race-conscious admissions are mounting a counteroffensive.

At the same time, Republican leaders in Congress and conservative talk-show hosts mounted a counteroffensive, charging that Democrats and environmentalists had colluded to prevent the overhaul of the power-transmission grid and blocked legislation on a national energy plan.

He mounted a counteroffensive that combined fierce attacks, political negotiations and the quick infusion of reconstruction money to damaged neighborhoods to knock back the Shiite militias and offset their influence.

Seeking to even the day's score, Democrats quickly mounted a counteroffensive by the same cable and Internet outlets to amplify one of Mr. Romney's remarks on Friday.

To combat Comintern propaganda, beginning around 1950 Washington mounted a counteroffensive aimed at challenging a prevailing image of the United States as a land whose matchless wealth was matched by a paucity of culture.