Sentence examples for dared to countenance from inspiring English sources

The book should have provoked a serious debate in which progressives dared to countenance the extent to which opposition to immigration might be more reasonable than they usually suppose.

This is a beautiful conceit, of a kind that neither Spider-Man nor Thor would dare to countenance: the idea of superpowers that linger in the impotent spirit, like sudden surges of youth in the middle-aged.

So far, despite legal changes in January 2003 that gave them room for manoeuvre, no big French firm has yet dared to challenge the sacrosanct 35-hour week.Why the big difference, if all is as it appears, between French and German willingness to countenance reform?

He dared to think.

Worse, he dared to speak.

I dared to ask why.

Scotland dared to dream.

They dared to dream.