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counteraction

NOUN
  1. action intended to nullify the effects of some previous action

How To Use counteraction In A Sentence

  • I have been advised that there is a very real possibility that unless we take effective counteractions, there could be an epidemic of this dangerous disease next fall and winter [here in the United States].
  • In order to determine what our counteractions might be, we first need to understand what they are thinking.
  • Your record says you've had special training in nuclear counteraction.
  • Their next step likely target initial please act cautiously any indiscreet counteraction prohibit.
  • Unless China changes its ways, on day one of my presidency I will designate it a currency manipulator and take appropriate counteraction. How I'll Respond to China's Rising Power
  • And if you don't do it, then the enemy gets ahead because every time you have an advantage a counteraction is created by your adversary to negate that advantage and the process starts again.
  • An example of counteraction is mixing citral, a pale-yellow liquid used in the perfume and flavoring industries, to neutralize the amines emitted from decaying meat in the dumpster behind a restaurant.
  • Secretary at home from whom he receives orders, and the Secretary at Dublin to whom he is to give orders, if I did not believe that with all his failings he possesses a high and independent spirit, which will lead him to assert himself decisively in the very first moment of the counteraction, which is thus studiously and systematically provided to embarrass him in all his operations. Memoirs of the Court of George IV. 1820-1830 (Vol 1) From the Original Family Documents
  • When intelligence personnel perform this task well, it supports the commander's use of a myriad of potential friendly actions and counteractions.
  • Eventually, the conqueror will reach a ‘culminating point of victory’ at which his successes provoke sufficient counteraction to defeat him.
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