How to Use counterforce in a Sentence

counterforce

noun

• The counterforce from a slowdown in sales is a rise in demand for the kind of rentals that Arbor finances.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 14 July 2022
• Merkel is a counterforce to ignorance and bluster, and the free world will miss her when she is gone.
  — New York Times, 25 Oct. 2021
• That has created this kind of counterforce, so that those who are within a system can have greater leverage to force or compel change.
  — Kathleen Ronayne and Hilary Powell, USA TODAY, 23 June 2020
• This is part of their appeal: personnel can unleash lethal force without exposure to counterforce.
  — Kylie Bourne, Discover Magazine, 14 Sep. 2015
• Second, get a counterforce brace, which is pretty effective.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 15 Dec. 2021
• Since the nadir of Russian power in the decade and a half following the Soviet collapse, Russia has bolstered both its nuclear deterrent and, to a degree, its counterforce capabilities.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 3 May 2023
• The strike, known as a counterforce strike, would be concentrated away from major population and industrial centers.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 29 Mar. 2022
• Over the ensuing decades, as the pharmaceutical industry took shape and began sophisticated marketing operations, the FDA became an important counterforce to the commercial objective to sell as much product as possible.
  — J. Russell Teagarden, STAT, 10 Sep. 2020
• Both tacit and open resistance to all kinds of domination have marked Asia’s history, generating a persistent counterforce to authoritarianism.
  — Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2022
• Here, Popular Mechanics examines two classic nuclear attack scenarios: a counterforce strike and a countervalue strike.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 29 Mar. 2022
• What counterforce allows for a real accessible infrastructure of economic and cultural exchange?
  — Bernadine Bröcker Wieder, Rolling Stone, 9 Mar. 2021
• America’s instinctive anticolonialism, however, was to butt heads with an ideological counterforce in Vietnam.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 2 Sep. 2022
• The counterforce from a slowdown in sales is a rise in demand for the kind of rentals that Arbor finances.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 14 July 2022
• Merkel is a counterforce to ignorance and bluster, and the free world will miss her when she is gone.
  — New York Times, 25 Oct. 2021
• That has created this kind of counterforce, so that those who are within a system can have greater leverage to force or compel change.
  — Kathleen Ronayne and Hilary Powell, USA TODAY, 23 June 2020
• This is part of their appeal: personnel can unleash lethal force without exposure to counterforce.
  — Kylie Bourne, Discover Magazine, 14 Sep. 2015
• Second, get a counterforce brace, which is pretty effective.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 15 Dec. 2021
• Since the nadir of Russian power in the decade and a half following the Soviet collapse, Russia has bolstered both its nuclear deterrent and, to a degree, its counterforce capabilities.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 3 May 2023
• The strike, known as a counterforce strike, would be concentrated away from major population and industrial centers.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 29 Mar. 2022
• Over the ensuing decades, as the pharmaceutical industry took shape and began sophisticated marketing operations, the FDA became an important counterforce to the commercial objective to sell as much product as possible.
  — J. Russell Teagarden, STAT, 10 Sep. 2020
• Both tacit and open resistance to all kinds of domination have marked Asia’s history, generating a persistent counterforce to authoritarianism.
  — Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2022
• Here, Popular Mechanics examines two classic nuclear attack scenarios: a counterforce strike and a countervalue strike.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 29 Mar. 2022
• What counterforce allows for a real accessible infrastructure of economic and cultural exchange?
  — Bernadine Bröcker Wieder, Rolling Stone, 9 Mar. 2021
• America’s instinctive anticolonialism, however, was to butt heads with an ideological counterforce in Vietnam.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 2 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024