Sentence examples for countenance that the from inspiring English sources

This makes it particularly hard to countenance that the legislation might have been made entirely on a whim.

"I understand the difficulty to countenance that the evil people who perpetrated the appalling crimes against your loved ones will not pay the full price that they deserve.

The other ministries are not prepared, apparently, to countenance that the MoD has to cope with the unpredictability of budgeting for two small wars.

Even Rupert Murdoch's economic brain Irwin Stelzer refused to countenance that the financial world was spinning off its axis, suspending judgment until a $150bn tax rebate by George Bush announced in January - equivalent to $1,000 for every American household - worked its way through the system.

At the beginning of the Larger Sutra, Sakyamuni's disciple Ānanda observes, from the splendor and serenity apparent in the Buddha's countenance, that the Buddha has entered the samadhi of great tranquility (Jp. daijakujō, in the Tang translation titled Sutra of the Tathagata of Immeasurable Life) and requests him to explain its significance.

The cyber-response to this analysis was astonishing: those committed to the proposition that law schools were wicked, the cause of their economic misfortune, could not countenance that the facts were otherwise.

But the technocratic proponents of vice legislation would never actually countenance that, which shows that the budgetary arguments are really just window-dressing.

"They had to go into muscle instead of skin … and that caused all the problems". The dark-haired, owlish countenance that was once among the most recognizable faces in music has become pale, almost snowy white.

The dark-haired, owlish countenance that was once among the most recognizable faces in music has become pale, almost snowy white.

We see his Frank Galvin go through a virtual kaleidoscope of human emotions from the opening shot: Galvin playing pinball in the seedy bar he calls his second home with a countenance that suggests slow death, to the final image of him staring at a ringing phone with ambivalence.

The Americans would not countenance that sort of nonsense".