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counterblow

NOUN
  1. a return blow; a retaliatory blow

How To Use counterblow In A Sentence

  • The counterblow of the right wing of the Western Front carried out according to Directive No.3 of the Main Headquarters failed to produce expected results.
  • Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas orders counterblows against what he calls a coup attempt. Year-End Timeline – Second Quarter
  • Thus, front troops, under these conditions, were able to continue advance or conduct defensive operations holding advantageous positions and even to deliver counterblows.
  • The hastily organized counterblow by the forces of the 14th mechanized corps of the 4th army at the left wing of the Western Front failed to produce any noticeable success either.
  • The Soviet army inflicted considerable damage to the Army Group Center and slowed down its advance by stubbornly fighting at intermediary lines and delivering counterblows by mechanized corps and combined-arms formations.
  • Combination with the characteristic of the free combat, the author designs a set of feasible training method of developing the athletes to defend the consciousness of counterblow.
  • All the blows give to this miserable creature forcefully struck the imagination of this mother and, bya sort of counterblow, the tender and delicate brain of her child.... Malebranche and Seventeenth-Century Views of Heredity
  • Minute by minute, you have a blow, a counterblow, a legal action, a countersuit, and so forth. CNN Transcript - Reliable Sources: Is the Press Making Sense of the Election Morass or Hyping the Melodrama? - November 25, 2000
  • This latter action, this counterblow against the attacker, was intrinsic to the whole concept of defence.
  • That had been shortly after they arrived and her words had been weightless, a feeble counterblow to his heavy reasoning. THE ONLY GAME
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