Numerous explanations are offered as to why Britain and other western and Arab countries continue to countenance Bashar al-Assad as Syria's legitimate leader.
That the coverage is a thirty minute highlight package and the UCIWomenCycling Twitter account currently has 4,045 followers while the UCI President continues to refuse to countenance a minimum wage says a great deal about that disconnect.
What happened is not on the same scale as the massacre of Vietnamese civilians in My Lai, or, indeed, the routine torture of prisoners that continues to be countenanced around the world.
More than half of the foreign undergraduates I have recently advised on their choice of graduate school told me that while they think American universities are the best, they were not applying to them because they could not countenance continuing to study in a country they perceive as having lost its respect for human rights.
Mr Geelani seems to be distancing himself from militants who continue not to countenance ever talking to the national government.
"Education is the major factor in social mobility, ending the EMA will mean that many students from less well off backgrounds will simply not be able to countenance continuing with further education".
Yet any foreign agreement, no matter how good it is, should not be allowed to countenance continued aggrandizement of executive power and further subversion the republic's Constitution.
I kept talking in hopes of some sign, and after I'd said my name a few times and recalled fun and funny incidents from our good times together, the frozen-looking countenance continued to stare straight ahead.
"By denying any deep biological or psychological difference between the sexes," he continued, "some influential feminists refuse to countenance any special treatment for men and boys".
The continuing defence by ministers, and refusal to countenance appeals to strip the company of its franchise, no matter how many performance measures it breaches, has fuelled union suspicion that GTR are simply doing the DfT's dirty work.
