How To Use Counterblow In A Sentence
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The natural desire is to limit the need to go face-to-face with one's enemy and hence to avoid the enemy's counterblows.
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The only clue in the drawn face in front of him to a hard-kill counterblow was the slight twitch of the muscles under his left eye.
A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
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Generosity is so far removed from the predictable, petty, gruesome dance of blow and counterblow, that it can cause parties to stop and think.
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And when the counterblows came - the SS King Tiger tanks bursting through the pine trees and over the Soviet trenches - these men died where they stood.
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Then, for what seemed like forever, it was all shouting, blow and counterblow, screams and blood and last-minute parries, and far too many people trying to kill his Queen.
Exile's Valor
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Eventually, Adams grabbed the initiative with an energetic counterblow in the centre.
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She gave no thought to fending off a counterblow or to raising any sort of defense.
Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon
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In the other case it applies to using mobility of the troops and their fire power to deliver surprise counterblows at the advancing enemy.
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[Castro] I believe the people dealt a remarkable political counterblow.
Holds News Conference
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The counterblow at Senno and the Soviet counterblows in other places halted the German onslaught and, by night of 9 July, created a defense line along the rivers of Zapadnaia Dvina and Dnieper.
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Retribution should not be a part of what we're talking about. "avengement, avenging, comeuppance, compensation, counterblow, eye for an eye*, just desserts,
Attytood
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The PLA air force would not fly except in exceptionally favorable circumstances or when an opportunity arose for a decisive counterblow.
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The counterblow of the right wing of the Western Front carried out according to Directive No.3 of the Main Headquarters failed to produce expected results.
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These two notions cause an escalatory diplomatic blow and counterblow of name-calling and invective, as witnessed in the months before the outbreak of war in late March 2003.
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That had been shortly after they arrived and her words had been weightless, a feeble counterblow to his heavy reasoning.
THE ONLY GAME
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This latter action, this counterblow against the attacker, was intrinsic to the whole concept of defence.
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Minute by minute, you have a blow, a counterblow, a legal action, a countersuit, and so forth.
CNN Transcript - Reliable Sources: Is the Press Making Sense of the Election Morass or Hyping the Melodrama? - November 25, 2000
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All the blows give to this miserable creature forcefully struck the imagination of this mother and, bya sort of counterblow, the tender and delicate brain of her child....
Malebranche and Seventeenth-Century Views of Heredity
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Combination with the characteristic of the free combat, the author designs a set of feasible training method of developing the athletes to defend the consciousness of counterblow.
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The Soviet army inflicted considerable damage to the Army Group Center and slowed down its advance by stubbornly fighting at intermediary lines and delivering counterblows by mechanized corps and combined-arms formations.
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The hastily organized counterblow by the forces of the 14th mechanized corps of the 4th army at the left wing of the Western Front failed to produce any noticeable success either.
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Thus, front troops, under these conditions, were able to continue advance or conduct defensive operations holding advantageous positions and even to deliver counterblows.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas orders counterblows against what he calls a coup attempt.
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