Some of the current counter-measures are actually counter-productive.

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Part of the government's strength is its well-organized security forces -- posing brute strength to counter the protesters -- that answer straight to Iran's current supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

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Hewison recalls that one of the mistakes early in his career occurred when he failed to use stops and was trying to pick a counter-trend, or a top, rather than his current practice of trend-following.

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The current anti-narcotics battalion has been trained in counter-insurgency.

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As a result, however, it is now possible to point to a bipartisan American approach to counter-terrorism. (In a backhanded way, the current administration has in this respect - albeit perhaps in this one only - lived up to its self-congratulatory hype as a purveyor of "post-partisan" policy.) We conservatives should not demean this, for it is significant.

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For current pain, you may find relief from over-the-counter pain medicines or using a cold pack (such as an ice pack or a bag of frozen vegetables wrapped in a thin towel) applied periodically to your chest.

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He added that inflation was running below the Fed's long-term target of 2% and said current monetary policy was helping to counter "incipient deflationary pressures".

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The current system is largely a waste of taxpayer dollars because it is redundant and it is counter-productive because it subsidizes fuel consumption.

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