Sentence examples for countenance a degree of from inspiring English sources

Rather, cyclical activity refers to recurrent patterns of depressed and burgeoning periods of economic activity, each of which can countenance a degree of variation.

Hamilton argued that "it is of importance that the confidence of cautious sagacious capitalists both citizens and foreigners, should be excited," and their fear of risk allayed by "a degree of countenance and support from government" so they might "be capable of overcoming the obstacles inseperable from first experiments".

Islam today includes a substantial minority of believers who countenance, if they don't actually carry out, a degree of violence in the application of their convictions that is currently unique.

But he added: "Islam today includes a substantial minority of believers who countenance, if they don't actually carry out, a degree of violence in the application of their convictions that is currently unique".

A degree of secrecy was a must.

Nevertheless, the fact that Spinoza countenanced the possibility that "a people can preserve a considerable degree of freedom under a king" (7/31), can be seen as a resignation to the reality of Orangism after the events of 1672 (Blom 2007; Steinberg 2008).

Would anyone countenance a statue of Hitler?

On the Shelf, we could neither imagine nor countenance a slip of any kind.

Many Tories of her background hated Mr Cameron for his refusal to countenance a revival of grammars.

"New Yorkers are not going to countenance a system of state-assisted suicide," Mr. Doyle said.

And he certainly won't countenance a redivision of Jerusalem to what existed before the 1967 Six-Day War.