The word "countenanced" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone or something as being supported or approved of. For example, "The school countenanced the student's request for an extension on her essay."
"I haven't ruled out giving more non-lethal help," Hague told MPs, "but we haven't countenanced doing that beyond groups that are so far located outside Syria and are trying to pursue a peaceful democratic opposition".
Even though Beppe Grillo's Five Star Movement is now embracing a return to the lira, and the chauvinist Marine Le Pen is an increasingly plausible candidate for the Élysée, no let-up is countenanced.
Mr Welch would never have countenanced the sale of GE's historic lighting business.
To most Palestinians, Ariel Sharon represents Israel's uglier face: he countenanced the massacre of refugees in Lebanon in 1982, and later became a hero to Jewish settlers.
But resistance to the proposition that AIDS still needs a colossal commitment by rich and poor alike should not be countenanced.
Mr Obama's religious-freedom speech was instantly denounced by religious conservatives as hypocrisy: how could he speak of the sanctity of life when he countenanced abortion?Precisely because of the contentiousness of "religious freedom" within America, USCIRF is mandated to look only at other countries.
But Mr Olmert never countenanced limits to new building in the new Jewish suburbs of East Jerusalem, where 180,000 Jews now live; he never shrank from saying so, even though he now favours dividing sovereignty in the city between the Jewish and the Palestinian areas as part of a peace deal.
This system of spoils has signally failed to lessen the misery of most Iraqis.In response to the admittedly egregious and constant provocation of attacks by Sunni terrorists, Shia leaders have countenanced or sponsored vicious militias bent on vengeance, some armed and financed by Iran.
"A management committee where 18 out of 19 members share the same background and sex would not be countenanced anywhere else in the world".
Mr Clinton went out of his way to praise him for his "very bold decisions".Yet there is barely any Arab leader who could have countenanced these new arrangements, let alone Mr Arafat.
The Americans and the French would not have countenanced that, so the idea of ring-fencing West Berlin from the GDR emerged as a compromise that both sides could live with.
