Sentence examples for could countenance from inspiring English sources

Mr. Bowman said that Boeing could countenance that solution.

I could countenance some slight modifications to this pure position.

It is an idea that no Western or Arab government could countenance.

When he started discounting the merchandise more than his father could countenance, they parted company.

American culture blended a Protestant sense of mission and virtue with a pragmatism that could countenance slavery and Indian removal.

That, though, would mean a victory of sorts for Mr Clinton: something no Arkansas Republican could countenance.

Sturgeon will surely know that and could not countenance a second referendum unless she could guarantee victory, as the Guardian's editorial pointed out.

At the same time he is likely to be remembered as one who, because of political circumstances and his understanding of them, could not enter the corridors of power without personal betrayal of a kind he could not countenance.

I couldn't countenance that.

All the same, Putin could not countenance them.

Trott could not countenance another dart down the pitch.