Sentence examples for fails to countenance from inspiring English sources

The second category of benefit that G.D.P. not only fails to countenance but, according to Philipsen, actively destroys is social capital, which, as part of a gross-domestic-product regime, must be monetized or ultimately devalued.

Since launching this strategy four years ago, Cameron has played the part of the man wrapped in the union flag determined to squeeze a better deal from Europe, ready, if all else fails, to countenance departure.

Knowledge management in military affairs can be learned; the Athenians fared poorly in the later stages of the war in part because they failed to countenance the possibility that their own techniques could be adapted by their rivals.

But he will indicate that he may countenance a campaign for a no vote, if he fails to win his demands, when he says the status quo is unacceptable.

Even those who fail to grasp the danger of profiling must countenance this fact.

There had been anger when Todt had failed to voice compassion for the fallen, initially refusing to countenance any change to the schedule.

If they walked away, he could try to bring on board Tzipi Livni, leader of the centrist Kadima party, who won Israel's general election earlier this year but failed to form a ruling coalition precisely because Mr Netanyahu refused to countenance the two-state idea.

By James B. Stewart Henry Paulson, Ben Bernanke, and Timothy Geithner were willing to countenance government intervention when markets failed.

Coming almost simultaneously with news of the bloody Union "victory" at Antietam (where Gen. George B. McClellan failed to pursue his advantage with the retreating Gen. Robert E. Lee), President Lincoln was in no mood to countenance what he perceived as another timid military officer.

Self-appointed religious leaders fail to see that this soullessness — not the dreaded liberal elite who insist on saying "Happy Holidays" or refuse to countenance discrimination against gay customers — is a threat to the moral fiber of a democracy that requires a modicum of common sense and human decency to function.

If he faces any opponent in his campaign for the Republican nomination who failed to filibuster the appropriations bill in the Senate this week, expect him to denounce that opponent as a weakling and a defeatist who was willing to countenance the health-care enslavement of America in order to win approval as a "moderate" from the cocktail-drinking socialists of the Washington, DC establishment.