Sentence examples for I would countenance it from inspiring English sources
She remained keen on Ending Up, but realising that neither Antonia nor I would countenance it winning, she concentrated on Stanley Middleton's Holiday, a study of middle England that she saw as a "perfect miniature".
Few think that Mr Balls would countenance it continuing but paying it for failure would also hurt.The most pressing problem, though, is lack of time to make other arrangements, of which few are on offer.
Sent there as part of a strip-search team equipped with helmets and flak jackets, Conover writes: "I'd countenanced enough inmate misbehavior and disrespect to feel invigorated by the thought that this is where it all stops.
And the idea of plucking the competition's best players from the competition in the middle of that competition, the clubs and leagues would never countenance it.
Shortly before the businessmen met, Israel's government said it would countenance more Jewish outposts deep in the West Bank.
While it would be lovely to watch Scandal develop into a female buddy show with the blossoming of Olivia and Mellie's unlikely friendship – Olivia engineering Mellie a wee break during her filibuster was great – I doubt a US network would countenance such a reinvention of Scandal that is (or rather was) a love story.
Martin Ivens, the acting editor of the Sunday Times, said: "The last thing I or anyone connected with the Sunday Times would countenance would be insulting the memory of the Shoah or invoking the blood libel.
And Kilmarnock pair Josh Magennis and Mark Connolly agree that it is not something they would countenance.
He said that insulting the memory of Holocaust victims was "the last thing I or anyone connected with the Sunday Times would countenance".
Yet it was something that few others would countenance doing.
Coe, a staunch advocate of longer bans for drug cheats, conceded that it was unlikely that the World Anti-Doping Agency would countenance a ban longer than four years for a serious first offence.
