Sentence examples for this was counter from inspiring English sources

This was counter to expectations: they had expected levels to rise.

When China refused on the ground that this was counter to Korean independence, a clash seemed inevitable.

This was counter balanced by financial operators, banks and brokerage houses increasing their leverage past 25 to 1 and ended with Lehman's demise.

This was counter to the view (which is adapted in some reservoir engineering and numerical simulation applications) that relative permeability of each phase is equal to its saturation, that is, the relative permeability curves are straight with no immobile phase saturations.

This was counter to our original hypothesis where we believed that increased vacuum rate would increase particle deposition – this was based on previous investigations (prior to the use of QCMs) demonstrating an increase in cytotoxicity with increased vacuum applied to the module.

This was counter to his work as a judge, where he tried to minimise their impact, but he said that 'If you are an advocate you want your client to win.

"This was counter-terrorism on the cheap.

This was counter-productive; clarity was replaced by ambiguity, a minor poll dip by something more serious.

This was counter-balanced by the appointment of a Jewish speaker in Parliament.

This was counter-verified by particle size analyzer and Williamson–Hall plots and found to be 31.7 and 33.21 nm in the former and latter, and the crystalline size of Ag NPs could be concluded as 32 ± 2 nm.

But this was counter-balanced by the devastation caused by Hurricane Mitch in 1998, which killed thousands, left 20% of the population homeless and caused billions of dollars worth of damage.