Sentence examples for doesn't countenance from inspiring English sources

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.

What he doesn't countenance is the idea that he left the institution of the Senate in a worse place.

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.

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).

Boardman, too, does not countenance any criticism, warning: "I hope this is not some kind of evil exposé about how all astrology is lying, because all my fashion people and I will hunt you down and kill you".

The one option that Bell's analysis does not countenance in this new world order is the wildly old-fashioned possibility of people paying directly for the things that they like reading.

Ontologically, Gilbert isolates a sui generis entity, the plural subject, that Lewis's "individualistic" approach does not countenance.