Sentence examples for countenance him from inspiring English sources

When Jack died, the story goes, God wouldn't countenance him in heaven, and the Devil, refusing to admit him to hell, handed Stingy Jack a carved-out turnip with a hot coal inside to light his way as he wandered the earth eternally.

This was financed by Roger Corman who wanted to back Easy Rider until his bankers sat down for a meeting with Dennis, the putative director of the project, whose language by all accounts was so colourful they refused to countenance him as helmsman.

The congressional GOP has countenanced him out of cowardice or calculation.

He would cost nothing so the club would countenance paying him the £250,000-a-week salary the Swede may demand, given the revenues yielded by his presence at the 20-times champions.

Ihor Surkis revealed last week that he is willing to allow Yarmolenko and Austria defender Aleksandar Dragovic both leave the club for the right fee but admitted they will only countenance selling him to a "top club".

Perhaps more noteworthy than his headline performance in the polls is the fact his unfavorable ratings among Republicans – a measure of how many of the party faithful could never countenance voting for him – have dropped dramatically in recent weeks.

All the same, Putin could not countenance them.

However, Birmingham would be unlikely to countenance the idea of him moving to the Reebok Stadium.

I think he's a decent bloke but like a lot of people who work deep within the system it's hard for him to countenance ideas from outside the narrowly prescribed trench of contemporary democracy.

His escalating abandonment of morality allows him to countenance and facilitate the death of a gypsy pickpocket, egged on by the desire to have the best for his much younger wife.

Mr. Lowder was unwilling to countenance anyone from that company replacing him, Mr. Miller said, because his father, a company founder, had been deposed years before.