How To Use Counterattack In A Sentence
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Hindsight is always 20/20, and once Real had the early lead, the textbook approach would have been sitting deeper, congesting the midfield to absorb the pressure and striking on the counterattack.
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Ben Foden is a counterattacker under surveillance, and has responded to advice to keep to the shadows out there.
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This will spark rounds of attack and counterattack ads.
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But this week, the president embarked on a counterattack, using one of the guerrillas' favorite weapons: the media.
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He took them to ninth in his first full season, moulding a counterattacking team.
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He is used as a counterattacker from deep and as a midfield runner.
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Think of the modern game, how for years counterattacking became almost a luxury item.
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Derby took the lead from a counterattack.
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Think of the modern game, how for years counterattacking became almost a luxury item.
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If needed the attacking side can strike against the flanks and the rear of the counterattacking enemy thus completing its destruction and moving on to the next stage, the pursuit.
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In the physical world, once an attacker is repelled, you follow up with counterattack.
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He often chose to take the role of defender in the expectation of launching a successful counterattack.
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But the regime's counterattack has outmanoeuvred the poorly disciplined and ill-trained rebels who barely made a stand at Brega before fleeing toward Ajdabiya.
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He agrees that England hardly exist as a counterattacking team, at a time when so many tries and so much ground are gained from the counter.
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You have to have a counterattacking game.
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he feared the rallying of their troops for a counterattack
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This vigorous attempt at counterattack merely results in further weaknesses.
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The first strength is probably the most important; a defender can more quickly shift forces to resupply existing forces, shore up defense where it is needed, and counterattack.
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Most candidates are repelled by the rat-a-tat - tat of constant attack and counterattack that is standard fare in most competitive campaigns.
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He is a daring counterattacker.
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All day, the lead story on the news updates was on the Kerry counterattack.
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But when the Americans launched a withering counterattack the defenders sustained heavy casualties and were forced to abandon the town, which was subsequently ransacked.
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Since there are so few mecha titles getting mentioned, I'll nominate Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack (1988), if for no other reason than that Gundam is about the only sf show to feature honest-to-goodness O'Neill cylinders.
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I counterattacked hard, accusing Stevenson of trying to dismiss serious charges with quips.
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Not by denying or counterattacking, but by being exemplars of leftist ideals.
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He reached out with almost omnipotent power and smote his enemies, remaining impervious to their counterattack (only some of the minions died).
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In his counterattack, he methodically defends himself against each of his enemy's charges.
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* More than 1,500 people flee war zone* Red Cross says conditions getting worse By Ranga SirilalCOLOMBO, March 17 (Reuters) - Tamil Tiger separatists counterattacked with a failed suicide bombing in clashes that killed at least 14 rebels and more than 1,500 refugees fled Sri Lanka's war zone, the military said on Tuesday.
Undefined
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The Republicans have launched a strong counterattack against the Democrats' manifesto.
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The pale man coolly smiled and blocked the blade with his own sword, then counterattacked his foe.
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They were also the more composed when surging forward and in the first half were slick on the counterattack in the second.
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It was basically designed to ensure an effective holding of defensive positions by concentrating defending forces and to regain lost positions by mounting counterattacks and counterstrokes.
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They'd be butchered, slaughtered like sheep before wave after wave of fierce counterattack.
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It came when a turnover deep in their own half allowed the home team to launch a thrilling counterattack.
The Sun
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Game suited his counterattacking style.
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He saw off the first few overs of the day and then launched a thrilling counterattack.
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According to journalists traveling with coalition forces, the battle in southern Iraq continued to rage with Iraqi forces apparently launching counterattacks to recapture lost ground.
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White may also shift his play to the queenside; often black expands in that area and is open to a counterattack by the first player.
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The focus was on containment, control and counterattack.
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Russia have the best defensive record in Europe right now and a reputation for being quick on the counterattack.
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Tottenham were bright and dynamic, quick on the counterattack and dangerous from the outset.
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They were also the more composed when surging forward and in the first half were slick on the counterattack in the second.
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I had been concerned before that opening fixture because they were both counterattacking teams.
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Indeed, were it not for the spirited counterattack of the Indian captain, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, whose buccaneering charge from down the order breathed some life back into a body that was on the point of expiring, the game might already be beyond the reach of India.
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The Confederates launched a single counterattack aimed at retaking the sunken road, but failed to dislodge the Union.
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Scattered in pursuit, they provided perfect weak points for our counterattack.
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One team played counterattack and one had the initiative and played well without the sharpness you need.
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Towards the end of the match, they were playing the counterattacking game at home.
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It was Zhukov's decision to counterattack that prevented the Soviet defeat.
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Think of the modern game, how for years counterattacking became almost a luxury item.
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His attack was parried, and then counterattacked with a diagonal swipe to the head.
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Lots of teams will play on the counterattack with quick and exciting forwards.
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As the counteroffensive went on, the fronts and armies were gaining experience in repelling counterattacks of big enemy tank force groupings.
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During the German counterattacks of February and March 1943, the Germans had seized all the lost territory from Belgorod to Kharkov, and then along the Dnieper River all the way down to the Kalmius River and Taganrog.
Deathride
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Black will fianchetto the bishop, and attempt a counterattack in the center later in the game.
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Each believes it can find new allies that will help it checkmate or counterattack.
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Most candidates are repelled by the rat-a-tat - tat of constant attack and counterattack that is standard fare in most competitive campaigns.
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The air force counterattacked and repelled the invasion.
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Viperid snakes are noted for their stereotyped behavioral adaptations to avoid counterattacks by rodents.
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The counterattack scored some stunning successes at first, including the encirclement of the 101st Airborne Division at Bastogne.
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More recently, the counterattack of the European Council and the intergovernmental machinery has put this story in question.
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On the ensuing counterattack for Columbus, Cunningham hit the side of the left goalpost from a bad angle along the end line.
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Counterattack in a built-up area consists of storming buildings and is conducted with relatively small assets from the second echelon force.
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His attack was parried, and then counterattacked with a diagonal swipe to the head.
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All of these systems tend to center around a white fianchetto of the kingside bishop, a kingside castle, allowing black to set up in the center and attempting a counterattack.
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The Republicans have launched a strong counterattack against the Democrats' manifesto.
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The home fans recognise swift, intelligent, counterattacking football when they see it.
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They were also the more composed when surging forward and in the first half were slick on the counterattack in the second.
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With this in mind he recrossed the Delaware River on 26 December and launched successful counterattacks at Trenton and later at Princeton.
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After Arsenal scored they wanted to play on the counterattack but any team that defends deep tends to become narrow.
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His father's famous counterattack in the Daily Mirror sounds like the machine-gun rattle of an old-fashioned typewriter.
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The air force counterattacked and repelled the invasion.
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Such developments were, for Draper, red rag to a bull - hence his recourse to history for the counterattack.
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He moved to counterattack when thousands of shurikens came hurtling at him from even more ninjas positioned in the tops of trees.
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Meanwhile, allies of Qatar launched a counterattack last week.
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