Sentence examples for swiftly counting from inspiring English sources

It was during the war, during clandestine meetings of her Resistance cell, that she developed the unconscious habit of swiftly counting to herself the number of people present at any gathering, to see if any were missing.

During those early days, people rushed to download the next new thing, and Apple's swiftly rising count of the number of applications available was a hallmark of success.

Pritchard ties in different colours, counting continually as she proceeds swiftly, according to her design template.

He would return change of a five dollar bill by counting "one-two-three-four" swiftly.

Seeing Messi dart between the tackles or Ronaldo glide so swiftly and powerfully through them is preferable to counting the notches on their belts.

After firmly and swiftly spurning a $16.7 billion offer from giant food maker Kraft, the market is already counting on a raised bid being on its way, and that Nestle or Mars too could enter the bidding war.

He was counting on his superior force and his own military genius to destroy the Russian army swiftly and force the tsar to accept his peace terms.

In World War 2 Patton was called in to fight because his superiors counted on him to act swiftly.

One of Grandage's gifts - his abililty to move things swiftly on - counts against him in the opening scenes: despite the poise of Francesca Annis and David Yelland, it's hard to work out what's going on.

Numbers flash on the circuit board like a digital Geiger counter; we watch in alarm as the radiation count swiftly rises.

So even while public support for same-sex marriage has grown swiftly and decisively, the forces of the religious right have countered by trying to expand what counts as religious freedom and where it can be applied.