counter-thrust

What sustains its 500-plus pages is the careful detail of thrust and counter-thrust.

Stromata Blog: 2009

But there has always been a counter-thrust in the semiconductor industry that has promoted specialized silicon to handle specific jobs, such as signal processing.

Intel’s Struggles in Graphics Continue with Shelving of Larrabee « Steve Wildstrom on Tech 2009

What sustains its 500-plus pages is the careful detail of thrust and counter-thrust.

I Have No Hugo Ideas, and I Must Vote! 2009

But there has always been a counter-thrust in the semiconductor industry that has promoted specialized silicon to handle specific jobs, such as signal processing.

2009 December « Steve Wildstrom on Tech 2009

What is tragic is that young people, especially those who played such a critical role in energizing Obama's campaign, are not actively providing a counter-thrust to the conservative tide.

Jay Mandle: SUPPORTING STUDENT ACTIVISM 2009

Volrath gave ground grudgingly, backing up two steps, advancing one with a counter-thrust, then backing up two more.

Nemesis Thompson, Paul B. 2000

She bounced away so positively that I was afraid, as I counter-thrust from below, that I would lose her.

A Rude Awakening Aldiss, Brian 1978

He checked over the controls and readied the three counter-thrust motors.

Blazing Sun Ernsting, Walter 1975

For the rest, Mr. Ruchames limits himself to a counter-thrust about Mr. Malin's spiteful views of the abolitionists, and his dedication to the revisionist view of the Civil War, which was so fashionable at the time Malin wrote.

An Exchange on John Brown Foner, Philip S. 1971

But Ladora's bolt, the heaviest she could send, did not pierce even the outermost fringes of her intended victim's defenses, and so vicious was the almost simultaneous counter-thrust that it went through the Lyranian's hard-held block in nothing flat.

Children of the Lens Smith, E. E. 1954