When Jack died, the story goes, God wouldn't countenance him in heaven, and the Devil, refusing to admit him to hell, handed Stingy Jack a carved-out turnip with a hot coal inside to light his way as he wandered the earth eternally.
This was financed by Roger Corman who wanted to back Easy Rider until his bankers sat down for a meeting with Dennis, the putative director of the project, whose language by all accounts was so colourful they refused to countenance him as helmsman.
He would cost nothing so the club would countenance paying him the £250,000-a-week salary the Swede may demand, given the revenues yielded by his presence at the 20-times champions.
Ihor Surkis revealed last week that he is willing to allow Yarmolenko and Austria defender Aleksandar Dragovic both leave the club for the right fee but admitted they will only countenance selling him to a "top club".
Perhaps more noteworthy than his headline performance in the polls is the fact his unfavorable ratings among Republicans – a measure of how many of the party faithful could never countenance voting for him – have dropped dramatically in recent weeks.
She never really forgave him for leaving, and never countenanced his love life; Thomas was often excluded from dinner parties, or had to move out when she came to stay.
We can only hope history puts him on a higher pedestal than he would have countenanced – but it seems unlikely.
It didn't meet the approval of critics at the time but, in retrospect, gives him a sense of improvisation that Poussin would never have countenanced.
Asked how he countenanced such a proposal by Mr. Eskew, Mr. Gore said: "You'll have to ask him that.
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.
