counterwork

Example Sentences

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Grote wrote his history of Greece to counterwork the party bias of Mitford.

From Practical Essays by Bain, Alexander

If the Syracusans succeeded in completing and holding this counterwork, the blockade of Syracuse would be rendered impossible.

From Stories from Thucydides by Havell, H. L. (Herbert Lord)

His case, he feared, was too sure to prove a sorrowful one, for he knew not how to counterwork their malevolence.

From Wise Saws and Modern Instances, Volume II (of 2) by Cooper, Thomas

Let it be to abjure thy malice; to counterwork this hellish stratagem; to turn from me and from my brother, this desolating rage!

From Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale by Brown, Charles Brockden

It removed one of the two influences which had protected Constantine and enabled him to counterwork Entente policy and strategy in the Near East.

From A Short History of the Great War by Pollard, A. F. (Albert Frederick)