Sentence examples for countenance it from inspiring English sources

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.

But no one will countenance it.

Rupert won't see him, he just won't countenance it".

But this possibility, Putnam argued, is meaningless, and so are the metaphysical views that countenance it.

Carter and Andersen and their publisher, Tom Phillips, refused even to countenance it.

Such an overdraft would be paid back in full within a year, the insurers say – but the Government has refused to countenance it.

Men understood the masculine prerogative, and they countenanced it, even at the expense of their own sisters.

Wall Street, of course, has always sought profits — but if greed were to be countenanced, it should be long-term greed, not short-term greed, in the words of Gus Levy, who led Goldman Sachs in the 1960s and '70s.

They have reassured the Americans that they will not, but Iraq's Kurds have always argued that Kirkuk fell within their fief: the Iraqi government, for equally obvious reasons, has never countenanced it.

After all, women's oppression is a global phenomenon and so it should also be a global concern; countenancing it in the name of religious or cultural differences just allows us to evade the responsibility of trying to do something about it.

Aristotle said that if the government would not countenance – as it appears resolute to – resettling refugees from Manus and Nauru in Australia it should negotiate with suitable countries around the world.