Sentence examples for cannot countenance from inspiring English sources

I cannot countenance an indefinite walkout.

I cannot countenance the idea of it closing.

The government cannot countenance cutting credit lines to all at once.

But is there a timeframe beyond which even you cannot countenance?

While it's an unfortunate incident, it's something that the G.O.P cannot countenance".

One morning, after Maggie pushes it too far, Mary Rose is blindsided by a rage she cannot countenance.

While the Scottish Tory leader, Ruth Davidson, has welcomed immigrants, May cannot even countenance Scottish independence – what she calls divisive nationalism.

We cannot morally countenance winners and losers in the free-market sense in health care, just as we cannot in security and fire protection.

One option for Salahuddin is to give himself up and face prosecution for the murder of Tabatabai, but he is unwilling to do this: "The idea that I go home and go to jail is something that I cannot really countenance".

This kind of suffering so close to American shores cannot be countenanced.

"Such use of a subpoena cannot be countenanced by the court," he wrote in his motion, "and the subpoena must therefore be quashed".