Essentially, U.S. forces were sallying out to launch a counteroffensive to retake the city.

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But the gaming interests have also come up with a smart counteroffensive: they're asking to be taxed.

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The announcement marked a counteroffensive by the technology giant amid new attacks on the market Apple pioneered.

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In other scenarios, particularly in which friendly territory had not been seized, there might not be a counteroffensive.

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He played a crucial role in orchestrating the encircling counteroffensive at Stalingrad.

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As embattled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak began his counteroffensive against the anti-regime protesters, his mouthpieces began alleging that the protesters were incited by the Mossad.

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Having effectively accepted the blame for the absence of peace, Netanyahu has been unable to wage a coherent political counteroffensive against the Palestinian political war.

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Once Gaddafi's counteroffensive began, France and Britain realized they would be harmed politically and economically if Gaddafi maintained power so they began calling for military strikes to overthrow him.

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In "The Big Red One, " a film about the 1st Infantry Division in which he served, Mr. Fuller recreated a scene that he captured during his unit's counteroffensive in Germany in the spring of in 1945.

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So even though the global music revenues are so much lower than before, what has emerged at the bottom of the revenue trough is a tougher, wiser industry that now has some solid footing on which to launch a digital counteroffensive.

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