How To Use Countermine In A Sentence
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I think such a thing would actually countermine a lot of his message, which was that nature could be approachable by anyone.
Remembering Steve Irwin | EW.com
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Sedition has, at last, countermined itself, and conspiracy we have seen in effect perishing by its own excesses.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843
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Another 20 unknown contacts were countermined in harbours as the team responded to USN unmanned vehicle or marine mammal searches.
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A mine dug through the solid rock below the castle was intercepted by a countermine, bringing the mining to an end.
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ABSTRACT The passive location systems play an important role in electronic countermine .
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The reader will pardon a digression in which so invaluable a secret is communicated, since every gamester will agree how necessary it is to know exactly the play of another, in order to countermine him.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
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I read between the lines that our plot had been discovered, that we had been countermined.
Chapter 22: The Chicago Commune
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Mingle in their follies, and see they cover not deeper designs under the appearance of female levity — if they do mine, do thou countermine.
The Abbot
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Mining, with gunpowder now replacing the pig-fat of yesteryear, might accelerate the process, but a wily defender would have prepared countermine galleries of his own, and a wet ditch presented particular problems.
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A countermine was successful when an enemy tunnel was intercepted.
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No more than forty mines, however, were sprung during the whole siege, and their effect, from the industry with which they were countermined by the garrison, was far less destructive than at
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843
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In the rencounters to which I am going -- the sorties, the assaults, the duels single and in force, the exchanges with all arms, bow, arbalist, guns small and great, the mines and countermines -- you cannot stay out.
The Prince of India — Volume 02
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Engineers were ever on the watch, and countermined so successfully that they were able to frustrate the enemy's designs on almost every occasion.
Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief
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Post-cold-war subjects have been inserted into the curriculum, such as "countermine operations," to instruct Central American soldiers on clearing the 130,000 mines laid during the wars of the 1980s, and "resource management," a euphemism for teaching Latin officers to keep their hands out of the till.
Running A 'School For Dictators'
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Here, the engineer is Hamlet, who is going to place some explosives in a countermine, one yard underneath that of his ‘excellent good friends’.
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We countermined the banks of the river
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With the development of missile defense system, the penetration of ballistic missile will faces with a greater menace, and the midcourse of ballistic missile is the focus of countermine.
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Second, if the countermine was driven below the mine, the counterminers could spring the end of their gallery, thereby collapsing the mine above.
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He prepares a stratagem but finds himself countermined — proceeds on his journey, and is overtaken by a terrible tempest.
The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
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Keep a good lookout for the countermine which is now working against the good advice of his Majesty for mutual toleration.
PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete
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At any rate, my omelette, cheese, toast and coffee tasted very good to me that day, while I chatted to two engineers who had countermined and blown up a German mine at St. Eloi a few days before.
On the Fringe of the Great Fight
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We mined the organization of the Iron Heel with our secret agents, and the Iron Heel countermined with its secret agents inside its own organization.
Chapter 16: The End
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For months this ridge had been mined and countermined by both sides, until the English had placed
With Our Soldiers in France
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The enemy had countermined, but did not succeed in reaching our mine.
Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals
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But Gertrude had no doubt that she was closely watched, and in these circumstances was driven to think how she could best use her wits so as to countermine her father.
Ayala's Angel
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The question set a light to a train — and angry suspicions were blazing up one after another, but Amyas silenced them with a countermine.
Westward Ho!
