counterblast

• The South Carolina Legislature called upon Governor Hayne officially to warn “the good people of this State against the attempt of the President of the United States to seduce them from their allegiance”; and the resulting counterblast, in the form of a proclamation made public on the 20th of December, was as vigorous as the liveliest “fire-eater” could have wished. —  The Reign of Andrew Jackson
• In 1815 Casimir Delavigne wrote, as a counterblast to the double invasion that France had just undergone, his well known Messeniennes to the honour of the French heroine. —  Joan of Arc
• In a counterblast to Raj Patel's Observer Food Monthly article, the distinguished food writer Joanna Blythman said that universal prescriptions for solving the world's food crisis should be treated with suspicion. —  Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed
• He was missing during the dog days of the year, emerging as they petered out to publish his magnificent counterblast to Bunko Chongue, which I cited above. —  Hooting Yard
• For me the really significant thing about Stephen Green's counterblast is the way it implicitly accepts a secular agenda. —  Telegraph Blogs

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