Sentence examples for countenance its from inspiring English sources

If the court, in Santa Clara County, rules that bloggers are journalists, the privilege of keeping news sources confidential will be applied to a large new group of people, perhaps to the point that it may be hard for courts in the future to countenance its extension to anyone.

The album's instrumental songs do not grant metal's gratification or countenance its catharsis.

When frozen yogurt was introduced in the 1970s, the American public was largely unwilling to countenance its tart taste.

The Nazis showed their barbarism when they occupied Rome, yet even they couldn't countenance its destruction.

Zinn's Argonne Laboratory was reduced to a skeleton staff, but Compton would not countenance its closure.

A majority of the Panel supported radiation after complete excision of ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) but was prepared to countenance its omission for some elderly patients and those with low-grade low-risk DCIS.

Our government must reaffirm its commitment to ending the use of torture and call to account the individuals who countenanced its use.

The first states that our conception of a moral property is essentially one of a very unusual kind of property, such that countenancing its instantiation requires us to posit in the world "qualities or relations of a very strange sort, utterly different from anything else in the universe" (Mackie 1977: 38).

Eeyore just wouldn't countenance it.

On the wall above them, Mr. Jefferson's painted countenance held its peace.

Mary's countenance takes its features from a plaster cast of Marisol's own face.