Sentence examples for don't countenance from inspiring English sources

You don't countenance any opposition".

We don't countenance murdering criminals in Britain.

We don't countenance any state allowing any grower to put any poisonous substance on any food.

We don't countenance any influence of any type on our assumptions or our prognostications.

I don't countenance losing.

We do not countenance illegal immigration.

"The only course left to us is to refuse to participate … The AMA's own code of ethics states: 'regardless of society's attitudes, ensure that you do not countenance, condone or participate in the practice of torture or other forms of cruel, inhuman, or degrading procedures, whatever the offence of which the victim of such procedures is suspected, accused or convicted'.

Like other provisions of sharia law, this is a stark example of contrast with the laws of England and Wales and with Scottish law, in both of which principles of justice do not countenance systematic discrimination on the basis of sex.

Proponents of the last view considered above, however, do not countenance merely possible individuals, uninstantiated individual essences, nor contingently nonconcrete individuals.

Civilized societies do not countenance gladiatorial contests.

His attitude is profoundly conservative, though not reactionary, if only because it doesn't countenance anything to react against.