counter-argument

Five months ago Instagram was a counter-argument to American decline: the elusive billion-dollar idea.

Obama's strongest counter-argument: The private sector has now gained more jobs under my presidency than it lost.

He understood, with a certainty of judgment that brooked no counter argument, that he could never marry.

My task was not an easy one, but I had an overwhelming feeling—a feeling which refused all counter-argument—that it was necessary.

Jack made no reply, but he felt some consolation from the counter-argument of the negro.

The unbelief and non-convertibility of the Pharisees is no counter-argument; for from them grace was expressly withdrawn.

That counter-argument we are bound, therefore, to dispose of.