Sentence examples for countenanced by from inspiring English sources

No offensive military action will be countenanced by Nato during these periods.

"Such use of a subpoena cannot be countenanced by the court," he wrote in his motion, "and the subpoena must therefore be quashed".

Mr Ozawa has said that the upper house will vote down any extension of operations not countenanced by the United Nations.Already, Mr Fukuda is unsettling the DPJ.

O'Nolan was confined to speaking and writing in Irish (Gaelic) at home as it was the only tongue countenanced by his nationalist father.

"But to think that this was countenanced by the antiwar movement in general, that it was widespread, is absurd," he said.

They are serious violations of women's reproductive and human rights and must not be supported or countenanced by governments or doctors any more.

We are asked to believe in a vast conspiracy of distortion, sustained over centuries, supported by false documents, countenanced and hushed up by church leaders.

But beyond the curiosity lies actions being countenanced and discussed by some of the world's leading scientific institutions.

We got off the plane – a Turkish Airlines Airbus, because our insurance companies had not countenanced our travelling by Iran Air – and joined the queue for passport control.

Obviously, astral influence is not an acceptable or legitimate relevance relation according to modern science hence appeal to such a relation is not countenanced as explanatory by van Fraassen's theory.

Israel refused to countenance visits by the International Atomic Energy Agency IAEAA), so in the early 1960s President Kennedy demanded they accept American inspectors.