Sentence examples for countenance allowing from inspiring English sources

United were insistent that Rooney was not for sale and, furthermore, would not countenance allowing a direct rival to buy an asset who could help wrest the title from them.

United have not been prepared to countenance allowing Nike to get a cut-price deal, and nor do Nike expect to negotiate one.

As I wrote last week, the Church has been party to both in countenancing television ads that lie and in allowing a leading Mormon to write letters attempting to blackmail donors to the "No on 8" Campaign.

We don't countenance any state allowing any grower to put any poisonous substance on any food.

There is no sense of all the people in the police department and more broadly that allowed and countenanced what happened at the Algiers Motel.

Although Napoleon divorced Joséphine in 1809, he refused to allow Hortense and Louis a divorce but countenanced their separation in 1810, when Holland was annexed to France.

"Neil Doncaster told the SFL clubs that the SPL would not allow Rangers to join the Third Division as the loss of £16m would not be countenanced," said the Division Three club's latest statement.

Robert Oakley, a former Ambassador to Pakistan, told me that the Pakistanis have countenanced a few American military advisers, and accepted intelligence help from the F.B.I. and the C.I.A. Pakistan also allows the United States to conduct overflights and provide logistical help.

As a teacher, I cannot countenance an organisation that allows members of a party whose membership rules bar those from ethnic groups who are not indigenous-white British to be part of my professional body.

They believed they had been offered talks on a new clause c; but May subsequently insisted "the government's hand in the negotiations cannot be tied by parliament", adding that she would not countenance any amendment that would allow parliament to "overturn the will of the British people".

Since he clearly wasn't going to allow a default and the Republicans appeared willing to countenance the idea, they had all the leverage.