Sentence examples for does not countenance from inspiring English sources
The Sixth Amendment does not countenance this result".
His gangster's code of honor, he has insisted, does not countenance the killing of women.
"The Bureau does not countenance these claims by some scholars and media organisations," he said at a press conference.
It starts to speak for itself, saying things that its creator might not have imagined and perhaps does not countenance.
Media coverage of the Danish cartoon crisis and the destruction of the Buddhas of Bamiyan left Westerners with a strong impression that Islam does not countenance depiction of religious imagery.
Backe was forced to go to his bench, a place where he normally sits but generally does not countenance many substitutes, because of injuries to Wilman Conde (groin strain), Roy Miller (left knee effusion), Solli and Stephen Keel (back strain).
His attitude is profoundly conservative, though not reactionary, if only because it doesn't countenance anything to react against.
NO REGRET From Korea, the tragic love story of an orphan boy from the sticks who becomes a prostitute in Seoul, where he attracts the interest of a wealthy young man whose family doesn't countenance his homosexuality.
She doesn't countenance the alternative scenario that many colleagues now openly countenance, at least in part in an effort to soothe their post-traumatic stress; the scenario where Rudd was not deposed as leader before facing his first opportunity for re-election.
We do not countenance illegal immigration.
The founders barred the establishment of a state religion, he said, but "they did not countenance the elimination of religion from the public square".
