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How to use counterstroke in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word counterstroke? Here are some examples.

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So, as a counterstroke, I would suggest that the company will need to respond quickly, and it will have to go well beyond a few cases of soda!
It was the Scottish counterstroke that proved to be a worse disaster even than Flodden.
Meanwhile, General MacArthur and his staff had been planning a counterstroke.
Right up to the Red Army entering Berlin, Hitler was plotting a counterstroke, using divisions and regiments with all the combat power of companies and platoons.
Now he could exercise close control over both the battle on the peninsula and preparations for an amphibious counterstroke, now planned for mid-September.
True, at present the main thrust is placed mostly on engaging an enemy force advancing for a counterstroke with air strikes and long-range precision weapons.
Liberals will cheer his new-found decisiveness, but it opens the way for the president to deal him a counterstroke that can all but end this election.
The campaign of 1943 opened with a German counterstroke that stunned the Allies.
This forced Johnston to withdraw his remnants quickly from Kentucky through Tennessee and to reorganize them for a counterstroke.
If Auschwitz was a testament to the evils that mankind can conceive, Raoul Wallenberg's example is the selfless counterstroke to that hatred.
Wrong-footed and exposed, the BEF fought some masterly, if costly, actions and played its part in General Joffre's counterstroke on the Marne.
As she watched the San Francisco media fume, Jervis mustered her skills at political maneuvering and prepared a brilliant counterstroke.
Russia's disproportionate counterstroke in South Ossetia had a negative impact on the civilian population, as well as on the infrastructure, and was a serious infringement of the international rules.
Spying a chance to keep Srizbi on its knees, fireeye began registering the domains sought by the Srizbi bots, and, for a time, this counterstroke appeared to work.
This month the National Front regained control of the northern state of Perak after the defection of four assembly members—a counterstroke by Mr Najib after the opposition had claimed a defection to its side.
Joffre's revised plan also called for the newly assembled French Sixth Army in Paris to be ready for a quick counterstroke.
Though his forces in Bukovina advanced as far as the Carpathian Mountains, a counterstroke by Alexander von Linsingen's Germans in the Lutsk sector checked Russian progress at the decisive point.
Examples from Classical Literature
The Russian counterstroke penetrated into Eylau itself and Napoleon himself was in serious danger.
Hume lingered for a moment, offering a counterstroke of indifference in what he had always known would be a test of wits.
After frightful losses the Abyssinians wavered, and the wise Arab seized the moment for a counterstroke.
And if you suggest a fault, its panegyrists are always ready with a counterstroke.
Yet the settlers felt much safer when they learned that the redoubtable George Rogers Clark intended a counterstroke.
Stroke and counterstroke and parry of rapiers and lightning-like motion glinted in the air.
Late that evening Frank advised his paper of a counterstroke.
We must make of his every attempt an opportunity for a counterstroke.
The order was sent immediately to Longstreet to deliver the counterstroke.
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