Metamaterials can and have been designed and made to possess certain properties, even counter-intuitive ones.
But as soon as that anger became manifest and it persists ( see article) America found that its various policies and predicaments in this troubled region were unhelpful to it or even counter-productive.
The incentives for private economy investment and growth are confused, distorted, misaligned and even directly counter to a good outcome.
The very same "hurt feelings" emerge when the pretext is a cartoon, a book, or even US counter-terror policy, like outlawing material support for terrorist organizations.
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The lyrics of some of their latest songs could even be called counter-revolutionary.
"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.
If we are unable to counter even those who are explicitly hostile to our survival as a nation, we encourage the perception that this country is reduced to appeasing its enemies and selling out our friends.
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.
The Constitutional Court, National Counter Corruption Commission and even the Senate have been taken over by his cronies.
The North also warned it would "take strong military counter-actions against even the slightest hostile actions" in the area, Yonhap said.
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 Iranians know this but have not met their obligation even at this late hour to counter this impression, and for that reason the burden of proof has now shifted: The moral, political and legal responsibility for violent confrontation has passed entirely to Teheran.
Global Times says China should be prepared to withstand economic losses or even "violent confrontation" in taking counter-measures against Tokyo's shrine-visit "provocation".
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%.
Indeed it seems surprising and counter-intuitive, perhaps even bizarre, but many of these countries have actually performed significantly worse than Russia since the onset of the global financial crisis.
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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