It was a scrappy first-half with both sides struggling for control, while Ghana clearly settled for counter attacks.
Watford were on the back foot in the early exchanges, but their occasional counter attacks kept the home defence on their toes.
The visitors, the only three-time winners of the competition, launched two scything counter attacks in the first five minutes and their early pressure paid off when Courrent edged them into the lead with a penalty.
Arsenal have been victims of swift counter attacks from Everton, Manchester United and Chelsea in recent weeks, but this time the boot was on the other foot as Arshavin led the charge from a Porto corner to play in Eboue, who rounded Helton to score.
Defending vigourously and resorting to counter-attacks, the Super Eagles were two minutes away from winning.
The depredations of trial lawyers against the American people and our economy are finally generating effective counter-attacks.
Egyptian troops advanced almost to Tel Aviv before being halted by Israeli counter-attacks.
Asec looked insipid on their home ground, unlike their Nigerian visitors who produced a tactically brilliant display, defending stoutly and using well-timed counter-attacks.
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Hardening systems is one of the most important things you can do counter targeted attacks, yet most organizations have yet to operationalize the process.
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Stoke's main attacking threats came from Pugh, Fuller's counter-attacks and inevitably Rory Delap's long throws, but neither keeper was overly tested in the first half.
Perpigan counter-attacks saw Jean-Philippe Grandclaude and Julien Candelon claim early tries.
Stoke seemed content to soak up Hull pressure and rely on counter-attacks, but both Etherington and Dean Whitehead skewed shots horribly off target from promising positions.
The units, dubbed "Churchill's Secret Army", were set up to relay vital information about enemy movements and help mount counter-attacks as Britain braced itself for occupation.
Pompey were now playing on the break, but on one of their counter-attacks they might have wrapped up the tie had Armand Traore not blasted his shot at Nilson.
Earlier, Russian commanders admitted they lost 26 men in the rebel counter-attacks against Argun and Shali - the highest casualty figures they have given in the campaign so far.
Despite their numerical disadvantage, Portsmouth rallied and continued to conjure opportunities - although City fashioned counter-attacks through Vassell and Benjani, the latter firing wide of James's right post from the edge of the box.
In order to counter these attacks they will be looking for ways to invest their finite resources. 80% of respondents believe that the enterprise could benefit from adopting a military-style approach learned from physical battlefields.
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While security at such sites as Buckingham Palace, the Houses of Parliament and London's Canary Wharf has been stepped up, efforts to counter terror attacks are by no means as visible in the UK as they presently are in United States.
Of course the United States is also rapidly developing capabilities to counter-cyber attacks and to go on the offensive itself.
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Reinares, who became a senior adviser on counter-terrorism in the Spanish government after the attacks, writes that when the Madrid cell was dismantled in 2001, there was insufficient evidence to prosecute at least three men.
New York, which has been at Orange since the September 11 attacks, is to continue its Operation Atlas counter terrorism initiative, the police department said Wednesday.
The tough chore for leaders is to therefore strategize responses to personal attacks as dispassionately, and as resolutely, as they strategize counter-offensives on behalf of the impersonal business organizations that they lead.
Sixth, whether Islamists prove to have been responsible for today's attacks in London or not, concerted efforts are in order to counter and defeat their ideology.
The latest report also attacks venerable American family foundations for supporting educational efforts on national security and counter-terrorism.
Assistant Commissioner Cressida Dick, who is in charge of counter-terrorism at the Metropolitan Police, told Parliament she thought only a credible report of "concurrent attacks" would justify using the enhanced powers.
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