Sentence examples for can countenance this from inspiring English sources

Putin has determined that he can countenance this kind of art.

And I can't help but wonder if he can countenance this kind of empathy because it allows him a male subject position.

If you can countenance the summer-camp ethos — attendees refer to each other as TEDsters and TEDizens — the group does manage to herd together many of the most interesting people in the world.

The question now is what do next, but before we can countenance the future, we must understand the past.  .

But neither can countenance being eclipsed by the other.

United fans can countenance defeat as long as their side goes down screaming.

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.

"I find it hard to believe that he can countenance what is happening now," Mr. Popham says, referring to the recent series of democratizing reforms in Myanmar and last weekend's elections.

This need to talk in dulcet tones, to never be angry regardless of the offense, bespeaks a strange and compromised integration indeed, revealing a country so infantile that it can countenance white acceptance of blacks only when they meet an Al Roker standard.