Sentence examples for can countenance from inspiring English sources
But neither can countenance being eclipsed by the other.
United fans can countenance defeat as long as their side goes down screaming.
Putin has determined that he can countenance this kind of art.
Killing prisoners wrongly convicted is the last thing a humane society can countenance.
When British troops are deployed to fight that threat, there is only one outcome we can countenance – winning".
If even Westminster can countenance devolving power, the BBC should certainly have a devolved a 'Scottish Six' news bulletin.
It certainly means that not only the call for the destabilisation must stop but in no way can he countenance or credibly argue his position can be taken seriously..
If we accept that an animal other than us can be evolutionarily transformed by culture, how can we countenance the treatment of that animal as a captive?
After all this, dessert seems to be an excess that the modest Porcupine can hardly countenance.
We can only countenance what we do to them, and their environment, because we forget that we are animals too.
Can we countenance discrimination against people for something so basic as how they blink -- or whom they love?
