Sentence examples for but to countenance from inspiring English sources

But to countenance the violent, non-consensual break-up of Serbia would be to invite a similar fate for Macedonia, Albania, Bosnia, possibly even Bulgaria.How can those two principles be reconciled?

But unable to countenance a public wedding, the ceremony was held in Samina's bedroom in Nithsdale Road.

Other Sunni delegates accepted Kurdish autonomy as an established fact, but refused to countenance demands for a Shia-run autonomous region in the south.

During the row over health care, the right demanded smaller deficits but refused to countenance any cuts in medical spending on the elderly.

"They want a world class civil service and point to examples abroad but refuse to countenance salaries that are even a fraction of those in other countries," he said.

This was emphasised by most respondents in our survey, who would readily prescribe disease specific treatment, for instance for COPD, but reluctant to countenance the use of anti-tussives.

Dunleavy is paid to have strong views, but his refusal to countenance any criticism of the N.Y.P.D. has alienated even some of his supporters.

** Dunleavy is paid to have strong views, but his refusal to countenance any criticism of the N.Y.P.D. has alienated even some of his supporters.

But his refusal to countenance structural reform of any sort would surely make it harder for him to persuade Mrs Merkel to tolerate more inflation or consider some form of debt mutualisation.

His wife, Virginia Mary Gordon Murrayy), doesn't think J D and his injured leg will stand a chance against some of the hardier contestants, but he refuses to countenance the idea of his wife's working for peanuts at a Walmart.

We may soon find ourselves drifting into Unabomberland, with a manifestly brilliant defendant who may also be manifestly out of his mind but who refuses to countenance any discussion of his mental health.