Sentence examples for failure to countenance from inspiring English sources

The only conceivable reason for Mr Khamenei's failure to countenance their arrest was his fear of turning adversaries into martyrs.In the first week of January came an admonition.

But because of his past failure to countenance a genuinely independent electoral body, the president too faces a problem, albeit a different one: credibility.

In his refusal to countenance failure there, Mr Bush seems to have understood this imperative.

Yet others – his refusal to countenance goalline technology, his failure to deal with deep-seated issues in Greece and Turkey, his reluctance to check the power of the biggest clubs – reflect badly on his laissez-faire style.

The regime refuses to countenance this.

To countenance anything else was impossible".

Sharif is unlikely to countenance the choice.

What about Palestinian refusal to countenance a Jewish state?

The breathless hypocrisy would surely be too great to countenance.

Romney said that it was hard "to countenance".

We are not obliged, however, always to countenance this anger.