counterblow
Example Sentences
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The following year, the Kroll Opera, Otto Klemperer’s progressive Berlin company, delivered a counterblow to the nazification of Wagner when it mounted The Flying Dutchman in proletarian modern dress.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 17, 2020
That’s probably the sort of thing we will do in Mali—and what we should do, if France’s rapid counterblow doesn’t stave off the threat.
From Slate ● Jan. 17, 2013
Nasser is a counterpuncher who has won a number of prelims by meeting blow with counterblow.
From Time Magazine Archive
South of the Japanese, in the rear, burly General Sun Lien-chung held a secondary force for a counterblow.
From Time Magazine Archive
Blow and counterblow between the Spanish king, for the whole West-Indian commerce was a government job, and the merchant nobles of England.
From Sir Walter Raleigh and His Time by Charles Kingsley
