Counterthrusts

But others, I fear, tend to fall through the cracks precisely because our Constitution seems to confine us to "legalistic" thrusts and counterthrusts and to delegitimize in advance a dialogue based on more "political" considerations. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Once again, the combat was marked by mounted thrusts and counterthrusts. ❋ Jeffry D. Wert (2008)

They addressed a joint session of Congress, had ticker-tape parades, were sent to seven foreign countries as ambassadors and counterthrusts to Yuri Gagarin and his cosmonauts, and were offered free automobiles and enticing real estate deals. ❋ Michener, James (1982)

I made the mistake of attacking and barely stopped his counterthrusts inches from my breast. ❋ Zelazny, Roger (1972)

After a number of additional thrusts and counterthrusts of this sort, ❋ George R. [Commentator] Guffey (N/A)

Structure, thought Wynand, is a solved problem of tension, of balance, of security in counterthrusts. ❋ Rand, Ayn (1943)

The Russian counterthrusts in the neighborhood of Warsaw both on the north and the south of the city were repelled by night and day. ❋ Francis Trevelyan Miller (1902)

After the initial thrusts and counterthrusts of the campaign, in which Brega changed hands several times, the main wing of the rebel force has been unable to break west from its outpost in Ajdabiya, south-west of the headquarters in Benghazi. ❋ Unknown (2011)

It required, 'deep counterthrusts with the aim of destroying the enemy's main forces and carrying operations into his territory.' ❋ Mcgrath50 (2009)

a series of vigorous counterthrusts on his right and left wings. ❋ Francis Trevelyan Miller (1902)