How To Use Countercurrent In A Sentence
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The winds associated with this broader wake spawn a narrow eastward countercurrent that draws warm water from west to east.
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Opened in 2007, the family-run Forte S ā o Jo ā o da Barra is part of a small but growing band of hotels running countercurrent to the wave of mass tourism that has swept over much of the Algarve region during the past 40 years.
Portugal's Alluring Hideaways
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A rectal probe housing a linear array of five copper-constantan thermocouples was designed to measure colonic temperatures simultaneously at positions anterior to, within, and posterior to the region of the colon flanked by the countercurrent heat exchanger.
ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
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Throughout the history of naïve, misleading realism, there has been a countercurrent of pseudorealism, which has satirized the shortcomings of this mode we have been conditioned to unquestioningly accept.
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In the months, or sometimes even years, between flows, a silent countercurrent moves in the opposite direction.
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While we've seen a flood of antiwar activity over the past eight months, we've also witnessed a powerful countercurrent of political repression.
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Dark, dense lines sweep down from the top in many drawings, echoed and at points countered by paler liquid lines which run in opposing directions, suggesting currents and countercurrents.
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The China Pioneer Area of Eastern Pacific Ocean is to the north of the equatorial high nutrients area, across the the boundary of the North Equatorial Current and North Equatorial Countercurrent.
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These films are a steady countercurrent to the seemingly endless paeans to World War II, a recognition that there have been quite a few wars and generations since the ‘greatest.’
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When I went through the Brandenburg Gate, I had to push through a countercurrent of girls parading their lovely selves through a temporary narrow passage of plywood.
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While the continued down global economy and shifts in focus for a handful of the original funders for the movement may give some pause, The Coexist Foundation has been working hard to be one of many in a hopeful countercurrent of support at this critical hour.
Rev. Donald Heckman: Are We There Yet? The Progress of the Interfaith Movement
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These films are a steady countercurrent to the seemingly endless paeans to World War II, a recognition that there have been quite a few wars and generations since the ‘greatest.’
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But while my peers reveled in their social ascent, a countercurrent of despair lay directly in my particular path.
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A Clinician's Guide is part of a growing countercurrent within psychiatry, psychology, and allied disciplines, aimed at redressing the shortcomings of that legacy.
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The winds associated with this broader wake spawn a narrow eastward countercurrent that draws warm water from west to east.
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But a countercurrent is threatening the tide of progress, and we need to pay attention.
Marissa Miley: Teenage Wasteland? Only If We Don't React
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So, although there is a certain comfortable feeling that attaches to the word ‘tradition,’ the word contains many countercurrents.
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There's a strong countercurrent of feeling that Turkey is gratuitously barging into the intractable quarrels of others.
Tayyip Erdogan's Dangerous Rhetoric
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Our plan was to cruise eastward, taking advantage of the countercurrents along Cuba's south coast.
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Yet from the beginning there were countercurrents of criticism and protest even within orthodox Iberian Catholicism.
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The choroid rete mirabile is a large organ behind the retina of the eye, composed of several thousand capillaries arranged countercurrent to each other.
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Fortunately, an ethical countercurrent exists which is actively promoting the concept of personhood in dementia.
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Extraction factor is one of the most important parameters in optimum design countercurrent extraction technology.
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Swirling beneath the seemingly simple storylines of the black musicals Krasner discusses are complex countercurrents of resistance.
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It has a powerful mainstream, but it also has many countercurrents.
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Any level of kosmos, then, has a deep structure consisting of at least two countercurrent structural flows: genesis and metagenesis.
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When I went through the Brandenburg Gate, it was scaffolded and shrouded and placarded and jackhammered, and I had to push through a countercurrent of girls parading their lovely selves through a temporary narrow passage of plywood.
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The dominant ocean currents of the region are the North Equatorial countercurrent bringing moderately warm sub-tropical waters from the north via the south-flowing Panama current, and the South Equatorial countercurrent bringing cooler low salinity water from the southwest via the north-flowing Colombia current, reinforced by the cool Peru (Humboldt) Coastal current flowing up the coast of South America and the Panamanian Cyclonic countercurrent.
Malpelo Island Flora and Fauna Sanctuary, Colombia
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The countercurrent could be interrupted when the cold surface water in the Arctic becomes less salty and fails to sink, and the water could become less salty when the warming climate increases the Arctic rainfall.
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It was a powerful countercurrent against the tide of democracy.
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In ducks (and other cold-weather birds), this is done by a physiological set up called "countercurrent".
Shirley Buxton
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Isolated resorts run countercurrent to mass tourism in the country's Algarve region.
Portugal's Alluring Hideaways
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Each of the farms had a deep water, cold storage unit connected to a long cable that could be winched up and down to provide drag from deep countercurrents.
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Not a jellyfish appeared, of course, but the day was chilly and breezy, and the shoreline countercurrent was running at double its usual force.
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With activists routinely imprisoned and harassed, the countercurrent to government restrictions is always struggling to gather momentum.
Asma Uddin: Islam and Human Rights: Why It's Up to the Muslim Community to Prove Itself
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Western culture also has a countercurrent that identifies the left with health.
Times, Sunday Times
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Subservience, sexuality, and hostility surfaced in her relationships with her companions, creating countercurrents to trust, support, and love.
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But the nonprofits are generating a powerful countercurrent.
THE ESSENTIAL DRUCKER
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They actually didn't believe in the mission and the vision of the company, and were working countercurrent to what we wanted.
Times, Sunday Times
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Gases flow countercurrent to mass flow in the cement manufacturing process.