This makes them extremely competitive against those of poor or underdeveloped countries that maintain free market policies and low or non-existent tariffs to counter them.

Opening books aid computer programs by giving common openings that are considered good play ( and good ways to counter poor openings ).

They would normally attempt to close with UN defensive positions using darkness or poor visibility to cover their movement and to counter American air superiority, before attacking using massed force, co-ordinated with close fire support.

" To this, Marxists might counter that while the rich may have historically had the awareness and education to recognize cross-national interest of class, the poor of those same nations likely have not had this advantage, making them more susceptible to what Marxists would describe as the false ideology of patriotism.

Although the highly capable Friedrich Freiherr von Hotze remained in support, his 15, 000 men were not able to counter Korsakov's poor defensive arrangements.

Cystinurics have an increased risk for chronic kidney disease and since kidney damage or poor function is often present in cystinurics, the use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs ( NSAIDs ) or over the counter ( OTC ) medications should be used with caution.

If an additional simple detector ( like the one used in a veto counter ) is used to detect, with poor or null positional resolution, the particle at a fixed distance before or after the wires, a tri-dimensional reconstruction can be made and the speed of the particle deducted from the difference in time of the passage of the particle in the different part of the detector.

" The involvement of former students who have done well helps to counter the lack of involvement from parents who are often poor and sometimes illegal immigrants without much education themselves and who aren't able to stimulate their children's intellectual and educational interests and motivate them because of lack of time or knowledge, according to Esquith.

Robens expressed concern at the poor health and safety record of the coal industry and championed campaigns to reduce accidents and to counter chronic occupational diseases, such as pneumoconiosis.

It is possible to guess, then, that Socrates ' opponents had cited his poor or distant relationship with his wife and or mother, and that Xenophon was concerned to counter this ; with an anecdote showing Socrates did have great respect, at least, for the role of mothers held in society.

Fresh to the desert, just recently equipped with obsolete anti tank guns and poor transport, they were ordered to counter attack ( Operation Aberdeen ) the German breakthrough.

Capability development, which is often referred to as the military " strength ", is arguably one of the most complex activities known to humanity because it requires determining: Strategic, operational and tactical capability requirements to counter the identified threats ; Strategic, operational and tactical doctrines by which the acquired capabilities will be used ; identifying concepts, methods and systems involved in executing the doctrines ; creating design specifications for the manufacturers who would produce these in adequate quantity and quality for their use in combat ; purchase the concepts, methods and systems ; create a forces structure that would use the concepts, methods and systems most effectively and efficiently ; integrate these concepts, methods and systems into the force structure by providing military education, training, and practice that preferably resembles combat environment of intended use ; create military logistics systems to allow continued and uninterrupted performance of military organisations under combat conditions, including provision of health services to the personnel and maintenance for the equipment ; the services to assist recovery of wounded personnel and repair of damaged equipment ; and finally post-conflict demobilisation and disposal of war stocks surplus to peacetime requirements.

To counter bad workmanship, full-time inspectors were introduced to identify, quarantine and ideally correct product quality failures.

Producer Jerry Bruckheimer felt Depp was " an edgy actor who will kind of counter the Disney Country Bears soft quality and tell an audience that an adult and teenager can go see this and have a good time with it.

Sampson changed the formation in the spring of 1998 to an unusual 3-6-1 arrangement in preparation for the Germany match, trying to counter the quality of the German midfield.

RFC 2617 introduced a number of optional security enhancements to digest authentication ; " quality of protection " ( qop ), nonce counter incremented by client, and a client-generated random nonce.

# The MD5 hash of the combined HA1 result, server nonce ( nonce ), request counter ( nc ), client nonce ( cnonce ), quality of protection code ( qop ) and HA2 result is calculated.

The Wertheim family tried to counter and work against such criticisms with special quality and security provision for their employees.

The Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transsexual community ( commonly abbreviated as the " LGBT " community ), mostly evident in North America, Southern Cone, Western Europe, Australasia and South Africa, fits the definition of a countercultural movement as " a cultural group whose values and norms of behavior run counter to those of the social mainstream of the day.

But the notion of dialogue reemerged in the cultural mainstream in the work of cultural critics such as Mikhail Bakhtin and Paulo Freire, theologians such as Martin Buber, as an existential palliative to counter atomization and social alienation in mass industrial society.

Some critics counter that the intolerant homogeneity of mainstream culture is precisely the fact that makes full acceptance impossible and that social justice movements should aim toward not integration but rather multicultural pluralism, without recourse to the types of oppressive homogeneity now at play.

While the consensus opinion of the community is not always easy to ascertain, generally the standards and utility of the scientific method have tended to ensure that scientists agree on a standard, mainstream corpus of fact explicated by scientific theory while rejecting ideas which run counter to this realization.

Bharathan, along with Padmarajan and K. G. George were largely responsible for introducing a counter culture of meaningful mainstream cinema which often tread the middle path between art-house and commercial cinema.

A take on the secret world, mainstream and underground journalism, Writers ’ Centres, the counter culture and much else, the book is a heady ride from Sydney to Byron Bay and the Gold Coast with Plant, resting writer, investigating something that might have happened but perhaps not.

This view ran counter to mainstream economics but was popular in anthropology, economic history, economic sociology and political science.

The Internet is a key resource for independent activists or E-activists, particularly those whose message may run counter to the mainstream.

However, Peter Barron, editor of Newsnight, defended Esler's questioning of Galloway's tactics: "... I accept entirely that while Mr Galloway's views run counter to those expressed by mainstream politicians they are views that may be held quite widely across the country and perhaps particularly in parts of London such as Mr Galloway's constituency.

The Mullumbimby town and surrounding area became a centre of alternative or counter culture in the 1970s and 1980s, alongside existing mainstream society, as did nearby Byron Bay and remains so today.

Parallel and counter to these mainstream groups have been such New York-centered underground movements as the Beat poets and writers, including Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso and others, continuing into the 1980s and beyond with such writers as Kathy Acker and Eileen Myles.

Feminist theorist and author bell hooks believes that the beliefs of separatist feminists run counter to many of the original goals of feminism, and instead of seeking to create equality, attempt to establish a female-centric and female-dominated society in which men are subjugated and misandry is brought into the mainstream.

The strike committee regularly issued an official Strike Bulletin to counter the expected anti-union bias in mainstream newspapers.

Iraenaus asserted the Doctrine of Apostolic Succession to counter the claims of heretics, especially the Gnostics who were attacking the theology and authority of the mainstream Church.

The theme of the magazine − a celebration of alcohol and the seemingly bohemian lifestyles of functional alcoholics − runs counter to the message of moderation commonly found in mainstream America: regular features include " Alcocomics − Cartoons for the sober challenged ," " Post Cards from Skid Row " ( featuring poetry written by and / or for the inebriated ), " Wino Wisdom ," and " You Know You're a Drunkard When ..." The magazine also features meticulously researched articles on alcohol's place in history, including such topics as the Whiskey Rebellion and President Franklin D. Roosevelt's love of the martini.

Micheaux sought to create films that would counter white portrayals of African Americans, which tended to emphasize inferior stereotypes.

" While it was not unusual for Brooks to edit his films substantially after preview screenings on this occasion he was " denied any privacy " because the media reported the negative reviews before its release and " it had to be good enough to counter all this bad publicity.

Before this film was released, the only moving pictures exhibiting extensive nudity were either underground ( covertly produced and distributed ) pornographic films, typically distributed " under the counter " in 16 mm black and white movies, or naturist pictures, openly displayed in specialized movie theaters, usually under the cover of exhibiting the fun and freedom of nudism in naturist reserves ( nudist camps ).

* The National Film Institute, a predecessor of the Irish Film Institute, is founded under the influence of the Catholic Church to counter perceived moral corruption in imported films.

For him the homage to the other films – including Autumn Sonata – is counter productive, for it merely suggests the inferiority of High Heels.

Saul Friedländer suggests that Goebbels ' intent was to counter three films whose messages attacked the persecution of Jews throughout history by producing violently anti-Semitic versions of those films with identical titles.

The agency's function was to distribute news, films and advertising, and to broadcast radio, in and to Latin America in order to counter Italian and German propaganda there.

In some countries, antibiotics are sold over the counter without a prescription, which also leads to the creation of resistant strains.

They can be used to launch devices ( in some cases automatically ) to counter direct threats against the aircraft.

The move was seen by some fans as a belated attempt by the D ' Backs to counter the trade by their division rival, the Los Angeles Dodgers, for Boston Red Sox power-hitting OF Manny Ramirez on July 31 and also to compensate for the injuries to Hudson and Byrnes, generally considered two of the more " power-hitting " Diamondbacks on a team which has relied heavily on pitching and defense in recent years.

While some purists consider luck not to be a desirable component of a game, others counter that elements of luck can make for far more diverse and multi-faceted strategies, as concepts such as expected value and risk management must be considered.

Nixon also provided a strong anti-communist presence as well as some youth to counter Ike's more advanced age.

The segment would always open up spoofing Burma-Shave road signs as some of the Hee-Haw cast were seen piled on a truck driving down the road to Slim's Bar-B-Q whose guests often complained about the food to which Slim would counter with something like " I may not have prime meat at this picnic but I do have prime entertainment ..." and then he'd bring out the entertainment.

A long-standing supporter of the Home Rule movement, Johnston persuaded Churchill of the need to counter the nationalist threat north of the border and created a Scottish Council of State and a Council of Industry as institutions to devolve some power away from Whitehall.

Their withdrawal from Afghanistan was seen as an ideological victory in America, which had backed some Mujahideen factions through three U. S. presidential administrations to counter Soviet influence in the vicinity of the oil-rich Persian Gulf.

However, some felt Kemp failed to counter substantive attacks.

* " Her stories and novels are humanistic, while her deep concern for male-female ( even human-alien ) harmony ran counter to the developing segregate-the-sexes drive amongst feminist writers ; What her work brought to the genre was a blend of lyricism and inventiveness, as if some lyric poet had rewritten a number of clever SF standards and then passed them on to a psychoanalyst for final polish.

A sequencer is mostly a counter, but usually also has some way to jump to a different part of the control store depending on some data, usually data from the instruction register and always some part of the control store.

Alpha particles are the same as a helium-4 nucleus ( two protons and two neutrons ) and travel at speeds in excess of 5 % of the speed of light, but they interact with matter very heavily, and thus at their usual velocities only penetrate a few centimeters of air, or a few millimeters of low density material ( such as the thin mica material which is specially placed in some Geiger counter tubes to allow alpha particles in ).

Antihistamines are widely available over the counter at drug stores ( without a prescription ), in the form of allergy medication and some cough medicines.

Due to political attacks against Jefferson, in particular those by Alexander Hamilton and his supporters, he used the Alien and Sedition Acts to counter some of these political adversaries.

Because information cannot be displayed on a miniature figure as conveniently as on a cardboard counter, miniature wargames often lack the complexity and detail of some of the heavier board wargames.

It has also been employed as a " hardware " counter in some designs ; a famous example of this is the ZX81, which lets it keep track of character positions on the TV screen by triggering an interrupt at wrap around ( by connecting INT to A6 ).

The use of oak is controversial in the Chablis community with some winemakers dismissing it as counter to the " Chablis style " or terroir while other embrace its use though not to the length that would characterized a " New World " Chardonnay.

To counter this, some meters include a mirror along the markings of the principal scale.

Clive Bell published an appeasement pamphlet ( he later supported the war ), and E. M. Forster wrote an early version of his famous essay “ What I Believe ” with its choice, still shocking for some, of personal relations over patriotism: his quiet assertion in the face of the increasingly totalitarian claims of both left and right that " personal relations ... love and loyalty to an individual can run counter to the claims of the State ".

The counter claim to this is that such a defense does not logically explain why some arguments from reason would be forbidden or ignored, while others are favoured, which tends to be a property of all religion and traditional wisdom.

To try to counter this copyright piracy and make some money from the popularity of their opera in America, Carte travelled to New York with the authors and the company to present an " authentic " production of Pinafore there, beginning in December 1879, as well as American tours.

In the meantime, while Souville was under assault, the opening of the Battle of the Somme on 1 July, had forced the Germans to withdraw some of their artillery from Verdun to counter the combined Anglo-French offensive to the north.