Sentence examples for had countenanced from inspiring English sources

Rees-Mogg said May had countenanced a "show trial" of Johnson because of her personal rivalry with him.

I had depression from a very early age, and had countenanced suicide on a number of occasions in my darkest moments.

The extravagant policies that Kublai had countenanced and the financial ineptitude of later Mongol emperors provoked, in the 14th century, the economically motivated uprisings that brought the dynasty down.

Last week, it was the chief economic adviser, Gary Cohn, who had countenanced the President's falsehoods and flights of bigotry but who finally took a stand on the question of steel and aluminum tariffs.

This, following a multiyear effort by Fiorina to aggrandize H and P's symbols (notably the founding garage) led to an angry response by David Packard Jr. David Packard Jr. that his father would never had countenanced the company's growth through such a massive acquisition.

Another consequence of Buridan's account is found in some early sixteenth-century logicians whose reflection on the problem of identity through time led them to adopt an even more restrictive account of proper names than Buridan himself had countenanced, and one which has much in common with Roger Bacon's theory (see §7).

There is no way that he would have countenanced that".

And with some images that I might not have countenanced.

Mr. Griffith had a sensitive countertenor soloist — something Beecham would never have countenanced — in Nicholas Tamagna.

Nor would he have had reason to think that Lackey would have countenanced an illegal overture.

Mr Welch would never have countenanced the sale of GE's historic lighting business.