Metamaterials can and have been designed and made to possess certain properties, even counter-intuitive ones.
"We were a bit lucky to win the match, even if the counter-attack for the winning goal was perfect, " he said.
One hardwood floor maker even wrote a counter book called The Truax that boasted about how friendly the logging industry is.
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The longer that mainstream Christian leaders don't even bother to counter the rhetoric from the far right, the more likely that radical Christians will come to define Christianity.
When you consider the terrible side-effects caused by even over the counter pain relievers millions of people take every day for low back pain, it seems unethical to ignore the good news of these studies just because the mechanisms for how acupuncture works baffle us.
Even the chief bean counter, COO and CFO Rose Marcario, seems spiritually fulfilled.
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Advocates counter that even if only 10% of the jobs receiving the credit were marginal hires, the policy would be cost-effective.
Police had even trained him in counter-surveillance after he was told he would have to "live and hold a lie" for the rest of his life.
Stamatakis and his colleagues are now investigating whether getting up and walking around or even just standing can help counter the ill effects of sitting.
Even when a good plan is possible, I believe there are many circumstances where the ready-fire-aim approach is the best alternative, even though it may be counter-intuitive that one can fire without having aimed precisely.
Such is the discredit of his opponents that a loud No campaign from private business, some Catholic bishops and, especially, representatives of what remains of the once all-powerful traditional political parties could even prove to be markedly counter-productive.
Factor in here that, in terms of being recalled by consumers, ads for branded drugs have trouble competing with, say, beer, soda pop, or even over-the-counter medicines, probably because what the drug companies can say is so heavily regulated by the Food and Drug Administration.
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If Northampton's resilience was impressive, their innovation on the counter moments later was even more admirable.
And they want something to counter that threat, even if it never comes to pass.
By tying funding to individual student outcomes, the state would in essence make sure that individual programs did what was best for students, even if that was on occasion counter to conventional wisdom.
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For the haredim, the ultra-Orthodox, who believe that the Jews should return to their Biblical homeland only after the appearance of the mashiach, the Messiah, Zionism was a threat, even an apostasy, which ran counter to the traditional attachment to Jewish law.
The counter argument is that, even if you bought into the Dow at 13, 279 (the high point of early 2012) today that investment would still be up almost 10%.
Governments are snapping up advanced monitoring and tracking systems to boost domestic law enforcement and counter the threat of terrorism even as businesses use the technology to manage and protect sensitive data.
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Thus, the projection of military power could become hostage to the ability to counter long-range systems even as U.S. forces begin to move into a theater of operations and against an opponent.
It has launched a variety of programs to keep patients on Lipitor post patent, and industry observers speculate that it may even launch an over-the-counter version of Lipitor, which could be marketed more aggressively than a prescription drug.
We were deeply disappointed when, two weeks after we provided you with our offer, you and your Board of Directors responded that our offer was so low that it was not even worth your time to make a counter proposal.
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But even if on paper there is scope for counter-cyclical policies, in practice there are still constraints (see article).
Claritin, an allergy pill that was once a blockbuster, is now an over-the-counter medicine that could soon face even more generic competitors.
The next round of scandals will raise the ante even further unless tangible commitments to reputation management counter the perceived need for accelerated government oversight.
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Europe, reluctant to pay more or to trade freely with countries with lower social and environmental standards, may counter with threats of transition periods even longer than those for Spain and Portugal.
He says there is so much ignorance, even fear, about China and he wants to counter that.
Cash is tucked in or taken out from a shoebox under the counter so the cash register is not even touched except for one or two transactions to create an illusion of activity.
Ambani even resorted to buying a Bombay-based newspaper to counter the negative stories.
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