Universal basic income, a form of social security involving the state paying its citizens a regular unconditional lump sum regardless of whether they work, claims a 500-year intellectual pedigree, the notion of providing "everyone with some livelihood" having been countenanced by Thomas More in Utopia (1516) as an antidote to crime.
The jury selection in the Holtzclaw case is an atrocity that would not have been countenanced if the situation were reversed.
In a statement, Wells Fargo spokesman Ancel Martinez said the practices alleged by former employees never would have been countenanced by the bank.
At every stall, the traders offer alternative models: "Norway for now!"; "Canada ++!"; "Switzerland!"; "Get yer article 50 extension here!" None of these alternatives, it should be emphasised, has been seriously countenanced by the EU.
United had already lost eight times in defence of their title and, though the latest reverse came in the previous match at Stoke City, the prospect of losing at home to Fulham had not been countenanced.
"I think that Turnbull has been prepared to countenance that is a real indictment".
The secret of her success, he adds, is not difficult to fathom: "She's just naturally more gifted and talented than the people she's up against". The only British face that has come close to eclipsing hers during the Games has been the sideburned countenance of Bradley Wiggins.
Looming like the Cheshire cat above all the cheerleaders has been the beatific countenance of Sheryl Sandberg, 45, the Facebook chief operating officer who started the great Lean In wave of 2013 with a book that still lingers on best-seller lists and generated countless if occasionally vague consciousness-raisings about inequities in the workplace.
But for its congregants, it has been increasingly difficult to countenance the mannequins in racy underwear, creeping ever so often unto the property of their tiny, sun-bleached house of worship.
Pinochet's famously stern public countenance has been softened by the passage of time.
In the 20 years since he was made the president of Sinn Fein, his bearded, bespectacled and weirdly unchanging countenance has been the most recognizable and most hated face of Irish republicanism.
