Hints and tips:
...Clarke characterised Russia’s attack in Kupyansk as “a northern counterpunch” and said it was the only “strategic innovation” in Russia’s otherwise static defence plans along the fortified front line....
...If one encroaches on another — by expanding Nato, say — it should brace itself for a counterpunch. No theory of international relations is more academically august....
...When a political street-fighter like Erdogan has to duck and weave it is as well to watch out for the counterpunch. Yet this very public instance of poor judgment is part of a wider vulnerability....
...In the 1760s, Britain tried to use smuggling between the British and Bourbon empires to undermine its rivals, while the French used freeports as a counterpunch....
...Beijing retaliated with a “counterpunch” on European parliamentarians, academics and think tanks, and doubled down on an information counteroffensive to dispel concerns over Xinjiang....
...(Kristen Talman) The coal counterpunch: Bankers’ hearing shows the fossil fuel’s political heft endures The US coal industry is not dead....
...The Treasury department’s counterpunch — naming China a currency manipulator — sparked fears that any progress towards a trade deal had been scuppered....
...But in a counterpunch, Sakura announced last week it was in discussions with Mitsui Bussan, the asset manager of the much larger Mirai Reit, over a potentially friendly merger — a proposal that unit holders...
...A deal whose aim was partly to act as a counterpunch to the US’s 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is on the brink of completion....
...That is some counterpunch, and typical of the man — an offer they couldn’t accept....
...Beijing recently unveiled a counterpunch with the introduction of Chinese Depositary Receipts, designed to lure some of its US-listed technology giants back home, as well as entice foreign companies....
...BlackRock, Deutsche Bank, Lyxor, Vanguard and State Street Global Advisors have already exchanged punch and counterpunch in an effort to win market share....
...His latest legal counterpunch against dissident investors Benchmark also suggests that he is not going to go away. There is a strong possibility that Uber’s highflying days are behind it....
...Now here was what might have felt to them like a counterpunch against “the 1 per cent”....
...Competition on pricing between ETF managers in the US has become ferocious with BlackRock, Vanguard, Charles Schwab and State Street Global Advisors all exchanging punch and counterpunch in an effort to...
...BlackRock, Vanguard, Charles Schwab and State Street Global Advisors have exchanged punch and counterpunch in an effort to win market share....
...One counterpunch came from Robin Harris, a former Thatcher aide turned biographer, who denounced Powell’s “astonishing” claims....
...Meanwhile, SQM has thrown a counterpunch. In early April it paid $25m for a stake in a lithium project in neighbouring Argentina....
...She jiggled up and down, swayed from side to side on her improbably high heels, occasionally darting back a few steps like a bantamweight before landing the counterpunch....
...In the struggle for the country, Mr Poroshenko is the man in the middle — caught between Russia’s aggression and the west’s refusal to help him to counterpunch....
...A US and European military counterpunch to Mr Putin’s Crimean land grab would risk a major continental war among nuclear powers. That is not going to happen....
...Fox’s gambit is a counterpunch to the perennial champion, Disney’s ESPN, whose monthly subscriber fee (the money paid to content providers by the cable companies) exceeds $5, compared with about $1 for other...
...Elizabeth Warren, the Democratic Senate candidate in Massachusetts and darling of the left, will seek to deliver a counterpunch to one of the Republican party’s most potent attack lines against Barack Obama...
...Rather, I see Mr Obama as more of a scientific boxer in the manner of the rope-a-dope-era Muhammad Ali, willing to absorb substantial punishment until he sees a clear opening and can counterpunch....
...Henry Giroux, one of the founding scholars of critical pedagogy in the US, for example, recently wrote a thought-provoking essay in the online magazine CounterPunch, deploring the creeping “militarization...
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