The enemy had made a successful countermove; his next move was coming.

The Germans had success with this countermove once, so they tried it again.

"For every move there is a countermove, and we will deal with it," the Speaker said.

He hadn't intended to give her time to try a countermove.

But I could and did anticipate every countermove my creation might consider.

Would he now be irked enough to make some serious countermove?

"It is doubtful we will be able to successfully stop that countermove."

Obama's countermove was to beat him to the punch with a speech of his own.

It was like a complicated game of chess, move and countermove, think three places ahead.

This will greatly influence what manner of countermove is appropriate.

The company responded with a legal countermove and demanded compensation from the two.

She made a countermove farther into the room, hugging herself tighter.

Soon a countermove would come from an unexpected quarter.

"Every blow that exists has a countermove to prevent it.

To each thing she did, Duncan produced a wildly stimulating countermove.

Every question, every countermove he came up with received that same bland answer.

There are even signs of a countermove in the European Convention now.

It wasn't the best countermove Alexander had ever made.

When their countermove was to hesitate before signing the contract, the Met withdrew it.

That was long enough for Tannim to make his countermove.

They make a move, we make a countermove, and both of us always looking at least seven moves ahead."

The gunner was reacting, feeling rather than seeing the death blow as he began his countermove.

Move and countermove was part of his life, not thesis and antithesis.

He's had years to plan this, years to think through every move, every countermove.

Before she could make a countermove, he deliberately threw himself backward and body-slammed her to the ground.

All this will wait until we've used him as a counter-move against Shard.

This will create a climate in which no major western power will make any counter-move against us.

Her head was spinning with the unfamiliar effort of visualizing move and counter-move.

Then came the unexpected counter-move, for which Dalavan had not dared to hope.

We should concentrate now on how to stop this chess game, where each move provokes a counter-move.

The share price move indicated that, at least for now, Wall Street is not expecting a counter-move.

Spock thought about his counter-move while reporting what had happened on Kavayak.

Heritage deal falls through;little room for a counter-move?

Their kidnapping of Miss Tuppence is the counter-move to your escape.

If we do not move fast the dark-faring brethren may regain their balance and attempt a counter-move.

It is a game of skill and daring, of move and counter-move.

A first counter-move was the issuing of a fatwa, urging Muslims to reject communism.

On the very next lap, Mears steals the thunder as he makes exactly the same counter-move and quickly pulls out to a lead.

The Mavericks’ defense is good and getting better; the Heat lack an answer or any fight -– or even a decent coaching counter-move.

After weeks of intrigue, of move and counter-move, the city was on the brink of revolution.

"It's like a big chess game: move and counter-move," said Ms. Brennan, whose office assists the police.

The Department of Homeland Security should be praised for challenging Illinois’ counter-move.

Still under the threat of the second savage's drawn arrow, Tom and Chow did not dare make a counter-move.

As she completed the counter-move, she stepped in close and held a small object directly in front of the elf s eyes.

Weve already suckered the Cetagandans into breaking their carefully calculated routine and making a counter-move.

In a powerful counter-move, the 2 Canadians made films with greatly simplified forms and bold representational imagery.

The intended counter-move was for South to lead the remaining diamond from dummy at the fifth trick and discard a spade loser.

Move and counter-move.

War was reduced to a game of chess, to an elaboration upon elaboration of move and counter-move.

Roderick Druce was ice-cool: move and counter-move, this was the moment for which he had been trained.