Sentence examples for have to countenance from inspiring English sources

If they go well and if Burundi returns to stable rule, African heads of state may have to countenance a new political dynamic.One reason for it may be the growing professionalisation of the continent's armies.

Kenny Jackett occasionally takes his players on training runs through Wolverhampton city centre so that they can see fans working the kind of mundane jobs few modern-day professional footballers will ever have to countenance.

To avoid that, a nonphysical, efficacious self would not be sufficient: one would also have to countenance states of the self that did not have brain-event causes.

Ellis was not only willing to consider such a scenario, he also thought that it strengthened the case for a finite universe, for then "we would have to countenance only a finite number of civilizations needing redemption.

As such, no one should have to countenance this despicable bullshit.

My family still has to countenance the particular ironies of our situation: my father was a lawyer for the Office of Special Investigations of the Justice Department.

In this sense the conception of truth is not "self-undermining" and one is not sent in a downward spiral where one has to countenance multiverses of multiverses.

So a way of assessing proposed codes that considers the costs of getting people already committed to some other code will end up having to countenance different transition costs to get to the same code.

Until Friday EU executives have refused to countenance the prospect of default and the issue has not been discussed at any official level.

He concludes, then, that to the extent that this is so, we have reason to countenance their existence after all.

"The alternative, which we have tabled before, but which you have always rejected, is that you [the WRU] makes a fair offer to take over the regions if you believe you could make a better job of running the same, although this is something you have refused to countenance previously.