And Micheál Martin [the Fianna Fáil leader] will not countenance going into government with Sinn Féin.
But Podemos will not countenance going into government with Ciudadanos, which it dismisses as the old right in new clothes.
Try to picture Rick's countenance Photoshopped into that famous picture from World War II, sitting in Roosevelt's place, side by side with Stalin and Churchill in Yalta.
A Muslim could abduct a Hindu woman and get away with it, but woe betide a Hindu man doing the same.The lowliest of low Muslims would never countenance marrying into the highest of the high Hindus.
And Mr. Hanks's shaggy countenance in "Cast Away" transformed him into an archetype of self-reliance, a man to count on in a pinch.
The second and the third verses can be compared with an idiomatic expression whose literal sense is "to dash into a frenzied countenance", meaning "to fall into a frenzied or crazed exaltation".
The government responds only with prevarication over Iraq, and refuses to countenance an early inquiry into the circumstances of Britain's catastrophic decision to go to invade Iraq.
But any government serious about changing corporate culture would simply refuse to countenance this behaviour, writing into the contracts that they must be held onshore.
But as his impoverished family knelt round his bed in their cabin in the dust of Oklahoma, praying a desperate prayer to the Lord, he saw his father's face fade into the countenance of Jesus.
Here Mr. Pickwick meets his first Virginian: "America is a fine place, sir, is it not?" inquired Mr. Pickwick, looking with a searching glance into the countenance of the gentleman of the gigantic brimmer. . . .
