1. He acted counter to his promise.

2. Economic trends are running counter to the forecasts.

3. He pushed the money across the counter to her.

4. Bob's decision not to take the job ran counter to his family's expectations.

5. The road blocks were a counter to terrorist attacks in that area.

6. Some actions by the authorities ran counter to the president's call for leniency.

7. He asked the man behind the counter to make up a box with a mixed selection of chocolates.

8. The government's plans run counter to agreed European policy on this issue.

9. The employers' association was seen as a counter to union power.

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11. The government's programme should be an effective counter to unemployment.

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12. Much of the plan runs counter to European agriculture and environmental policy.

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14. A recipe would be counter to its nature.

15. This possibility ran counter to much nineteenth-century political theory, which stressed that the State was the only guarantor of personal safety.

16. This did indeed run counter to the original principle of a benign public monopoly.

17. Running counter to mainstream Republican thinking, he is calling for tariffs and new trade barriers to protect jobs.

18. It runs counter to his career-long concern with budget deficits.

19. They operate in a way which runs counter to the original purpose of creation.

20. The vanity of others is only counter to our taste when it is counter to our vanity. Friedrich Nietzsche 

21. Developing small-scale enterprises also runs counter to a parallel policy of closing down inefficient and pollution-rich rural enterprises.

22. The only problem is that this runs counter to trends in the labor market.

23. Their conclusions run counter to any simple proletarianisation thesis about the effects of new technology on skill.

24. He is asked to behave in ways which run counter to his natural desires, and he resents this.

25. This can apply to moral issues and anything which runs counter to the Bible's teaching.

26. While I did this, I was encouraging her to talk through opinions of her own that ran counter to these discussions.

27. After the movie, I had to rush to a department-store makeup counter to doctor red eyes and tear stains.

28. Willie smiled nervously and leaned with his back against the counter to look at the other materials.

29. The explanations which they offer for continuing peasant unrest, however, run counter to important aspects of the Soviet explanation.

30. To ignore those who live at home is unacceptable; it runs counter to a general sense of social responsibility.