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  • noun Plural form of counterblow.

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Examples

  • Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas orders counterblows against what he calls a coup attempt.

    Year-End Timeline – Second Quarter 2008

  • This allowed you to horde resources and expertise to inflict major blows, or counterblows.

    Is Love and War Turn Based? 2005

  • He grunted as a steel blade bit into his arm, and then cursed as another cut gouged his knee-even as both attackers fell dead from the lightning-fast back-and-forth of his counterblows.

    Emperor of Ansalon Niles, Douglas 1993

  • The state does not only want to isolate the anarchists from the social struggle and break up their dynamics, but as well wants to drag them down into the spiral of an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, entailing correct and brave counterblows of the anarchists but which could be at the extend of a subversive decline in the wider spheres of society.

    Anarchist news dot org - Comments 2010

  • The focus is now on whether the ruling bloc can stage counterblows in the Shizuoka gubernatorial race and the Tokyo metropolitan assembly election in July.

    Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion 2009

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