Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A project, scheme, or proposal of one party advanced in opposition to that of another, as in the negotiation of a treaty.
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•President Obama should announce a counter-project against the Muslim Brotherhood Project of Islamizing the west which would bring the long awaited anti-theocratic ideals of western freedom to the Middle East.
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But this, too, is part of Levinas's counter-project to Heidegger, for whom our concern for the world coexists with instrumentalist relationships with it: entities in the world are as if on display, at the reach of the hand; tools are used like material.
Emmanuel Levinas Bergo, Bettina 2007
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After much discussion Caulaincourt agreed to draw up a counter-project, which he presented on the 15th, under the following title: "Project of a definitive Treaty between France and the Allies."
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various
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Plenipotentiaries of the Allies; in their reply, insisted upon receiving another declaration from the French Plenipotentiary, which should contain an acceptance or refusal of their project of a treaty presented in the conference of the 7th of February, or a counter-project.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various
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They requested that M. de Caulaincourt would declare whether he would accept or reject the project of a treaty presented by the Allied Sovereigns, or offer a counter-project.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various
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If the legislature desires to prepare a counter-project to be submitted to the voters along with the popularly initiated proposition, it may do so.
The Governments of Europe Frederic Austin Ogg 1914
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A rejoinder to the counter-project was laid on Napoleon's desk, containing the identical words, "that the kingdom of Poland shall never be restored."
The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.) William Milligan Sloane 1889
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Accordingly he drew up, executed, and forwarded to Russia a counter-project promising "never to give help or assistance to any power, or to any internal rising whatsoever, looking to a restoration of the kingdom of Poland."
The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.) William Milligan Sloane 1889
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Pitt, of course, had his way, and the government, after sending Bonaparte a counter-project which he refused, finally rejected his proposal.
The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration William Hunt 1886
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Napoleon, however, refused to agree to the extension of Prussia's ascendency over all Germany, and presented a counter-project which was in its turn rejected by Bismarck.
A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878 Charles Alan Fyffe 1868
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