(An interesting paper from earlier this year looked into the rationality of suicide bombers).More than anything, this is a reflection of a deeply-rooted problem in Pakistan, where Saudi-funded madrassas have advanced a strict interpretation of Islam that countenances violence and intolerance.
The UN will give Kosovo's Albanian-dominated government more power if it countenances a decentralisation plan that would safeguard the Serbs.On May 21st-22nd politicians from all sides are due to attend informal talks in Switzerland.
In the spirit of the reforms of Patriarch Nikon, who strove to bring the Russian church in line with the traditions of Greek Orthodoxy, Ushakov in his icons chose to reflect the countenances of Greek icons, many of which had been brought from the Orthodox east, and of old Russian icons that had been painted in the Greek style.
We renounce them altogether.…Any system that countenances abstract entities we deem unsatisfactory as a final philosophy.
When I mention the Catholic Church's unforgivable protection of child-abusing priests, Coles countenances that, for him, the scandal was "overshadowed by my experience of the benevolence and kindness of priests".
The countenances of the captains told different stories here.
The Dictionary defines "patron" as "one who countenances, supports, or protects.
Utopianism is evil not only because it countenances real suffering today in the name of abstract justice tomorrow.
Most of the statues had already been defaced, but some had their human countenances still intact.
There's a larger question in all these others, having to do with how a society countenances what look like obvious offenses against morality.
It takes a good actor to play the part of a serious man... On the countenances of our greatest Chief Executives since George Washington, the photographers & painters of Civil War times almost always found & recorded melancholy and brooding expressions.
