counter-motion

There was also a strange tension, as if the certain motion of one them drew forth an uncertain counter-motion in the other.

Being with Thin Girls 2009

There was also a strange tension, as if the certain motion of one them drew forth an uncertain counter-motion in the other.

Being with Thin Girls 2009

However, this injunction was put on hold in response to a counter-motion from SCEI.

Archive 2005-03-01 Peter Zura 2005

And therefore a counter-motion was moved in the spirit of free speech and democracy.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

They filed a motion, a counter-motion in the court against this and said that since they had been themselves — that is the institutions — had been themselves the victim of discrimination and segregation, that they should not be singled out as a part of the remedy.

Oral History Interview with Raymond Dawson, February 4, 1991. Interview L-0133. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1991

But are we, in view of this counter-motion, to recognize the presence of two distinct motions?

The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

"Hold on!" cried Cyrus, trying to avert a ducking by a counter-motion.

Camp and Trail A Story of the Maine Woods Isabel Hornibrook

All was so sudden that few were saved by their own exertions, those who survived having either been dug out of the ruins afterward or cast forth by the counter-motion as the earth rocked to and fro in the second shock.

Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 Various

Out flashed the brave youths 'swords, still with mimic counter-motion, upon nothing -- upon the empty darkness before them.

Gaston de Latour; an unfinished romance Walter Pater 1866

But twice in the evening some of the inmates started, and the pallor occasionally common to the household overspread their faces, for they felt underneath them a counter-motion to the dance, as if the floor rose slightly to answer their feet.

The Portent & Other Stories George MacDonald 1864