United fans can countenance defeat as long as their side goes down screaming.
And driven by feelings of betrayal, millions of progressive voters will no longer countenance them as a repository for their support.
By and large, rulers countenanced any religion as long as it did not interfere with civic pagan ritual; the elite adapted Roman customs, displayed Roman gods beside their own and celebrated dinner as the social and intellectual high point of the day.
When Andy Murray took the third set off him 6-0 to win in Tokyo recently, he would not countenance fatigue as an excuse.
On the other hand, they countenance "nazi" as an adjective ("nazi tactics," as opposed to "the Nazis' tactics") — but what about "marxist"?
It has been said that Shepherd refuses to countenance Allardyce as a Newcastle manager because he declined the position in the days after Sir Bobby Robson was sacked in September 2004.
Curiouser still, is that some of the world's think tanks who shout the loudest that human-caused climate change might not even be a thing, or at least a thing not worth worrying about, are happy to countenance geoengineering as a solution to the problem they think is overblown.
as the result of analogy as a knowledge source for Nyāya, analogy is restricted to a subject's learning the meaning of a word (and Yogācāra does not countenance it as a separate pramāṇa).
Similarly, in the example of the poison victim discussed above, the victim's ingesting poison on a full stomach influences the time and manner of his death (making it a slow and painful death), but common sense refuses to countenance his eating dinner as a cause of his death, though it may countenance it as a cause of its being a slow and painful death.
Merkel's position, both in terms of what she will countenance and also as mediator, will go some way to fixing the outcome – but perhaps not as much as Downing Street thinks.
