Sentence examples for countenance reform from inspiring English sources
But Wyatt says he's now prepared to countenance reform because the Australian Human Rights Commission mishandled the recent case involving three students from the Queensland University of Technology.
Yet the basic problem has nothing to do with race: it lies in the appalling state of too many primary and elementary schools, and in the refusal of the teachers' unions to countenance reform or experiment.
Malcolm Turnbull signalled he was willing to countenance reform en route to the East Asia Summit, a gathering of leaders expected to ventilate tensions over Chinese aggression in the South China Sea.
So far, despite legal changes in January 2003 that gave them room for manoeuvre, no big French firm has yet dared to challenge the sacrosanct 35-hour week.Why the big difference, if all is as it appears, between French and German willingness to countenance reform?
Meanwhile Democrats, enslaved to the teachers' unions, are generally unwilling to countenance reforms such as school vouchers and testing; and they are also keener on affirmative action, the system of race-based preferences which makes universities less competitive and keeps the poison of race in a debate which is best focused on income.This is depressing.
And by refusing to countenance electoral reform, Labour keeps the Tories in business as the default governing party in Britain.
But some analysts in Myanmar believe the junta may have no choice, unless it is prepared to countenance political reform, and it is not.
But his refusal to countenance structural reform of any sort would surely make it harder for him to persuade Mrs Merkel to tolerate more inflation or consider some form of debt mutualisation.
Will the divide between the northern - and increasingly Labour - cities and the south grow further?" Another problem for Pickles is that that while the electorate might still broadly accept the general necessity of public spending cuts, it appears they will not countenance the reforms that attempt to deliver them.
However, he resigned that same year in frustration at French unwillingness to countenance his legislative reforms.
A new Greek government, punished by the rough treatment of bond investors no longer willing to countenance soft promises of reform, is just now promising steep spending cuts.
