West Brom were camped in the Bluebirds half as Chris Brunt and Bednar again went close before counter-attacking Cardiff - the Championship's second highest-scorers - completed a battling smash-and-grab win amid the late drama.
Close to home, that runs counter to the drive to extract every last drop of oil from under UK (or Scottish) waters.
Unfortunately, a close look at Olmert's counter-terror measures makes clear that, no, in spite of the wailing of the international press corps, and the whining of the State Department and its European and Russian counterparts, in fact, Olmert still refuses to get it.
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The visitors held out and came agonisingly close to taking the lead on the counter-attack with a piercing move.
Although Wigan seemed content to soak up pressure from the visitors, they went close to doubling their lead on the counter-attack.
Chris Taylor soon nicked Groenewald behind to wicketkeeper James Pipe but although Gidman and Franklin counter-attacked before the close, Derbyshire will fancy their chances of taking the six more wickets they need to wrap up victory on the final day.
Aberdeen tried to counter and captain Russell Anderson headed over from close range following a corner.
The new military counter-intelligence service is headed by Antoni Macierewicz, a close friend of the prime minister's.
Incoming Israeli lawmaker Tzachi Hanegbi, who is close to Prime Minister Netanyahu, said pinpoint strikes are not enough to counter the threat of Hezbollah obtaining sophisticated weaponry from Syria.
Chinese officials counter that U.S. military planes should not fly so close to China.
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It left little room for the opposition to exploit with swift counter-attacking moves, while Ronaldo soon started to become frustrated with the close attention he received.
Like Mubarak, Shafik is a former Air Force officer with close ties to Egypt's powerful military, "the quintessential candidate of the counter-revolution, " in the words of Khaled Elgindy, a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington.
Tan, of course, will say that he has no choice but to close PAL - and given the carrier's abysmal arithmetic it is a hard case to counter.
In a rare counter attack, Saints pulled a try back on 32 minutes when loose forward Joynt sold a dummy close the Bradford line and stretched out of Nathan McAvoy's tackle to score.
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