Sentence examples for Countenance from inspiring English sources

He is likely to test the Algerian government's willingness to countenance greater intelligence sharing, including the deployment of US drones.

Most fundamentally, parties are refusing to countenance the investment needed to make housing accessible for all.

But he will indicate that he may countenance a campaign for a no vote, if he fails to win his demands, when he says the status quo is unacceptable.

Polls suggest his point-blank refusal to countenance a currency union has backfired in Scotland (because Scots don't like being told what to think), although it is possible that his warnings might have more impact when undecided voters finally make up their minds in September.

He has "no tolerance" for people who suggest the party should simply do its best in such unpromising circumstances; nor does he countenance Alex Salmond's suggestion in an interview that the SNP might set aside its convention of abstaining from voting on English-only laws in order to support a minority Labour government.

It refused to countenance moving nests until there was an end to the illegal killing of hen harriers and their population had recovered.

Many of the foodies who bleat on about it could not countenance living without things like lemons, figs and galangal.

Downing Street said the deployment was not just a practical bilateral response to a request for support, but a signal to the Russians that Britain will not countenance further large scale annexations of towns in Ukraine.

The chancellor gave little indication whether she would countenance a major revision of the Lisbon treaty – a key Cameron demand to allow him to table his proposals – when she said simply that new eurozone governance arrangements would be introduced through the "necessary legal instruments".

I couldn't countenance that.

Mr Geelani seems to be distancing himself from militants who continue not to countenance ever talking to the national government.