Sentence examples for i could not countenance from inspiring English sources
I could not countenance or justify voting against it if it led ultimately to Brexit falling by the wayside; if it led to letting down 17.4m people.
"I could not countenance the idea that we would have the sort of scenes we had at Dale Farm done in the name of the church on the steps of St Paul's".
Almost all the history of my father's family had been lost in the upheaval of their flight from Europe: I could not countenance the idea that our family would just step forever outside the nimbus or noose of Jewish identity as casually as it might step out of the car in a supermarket parking lot.
I couldn't countenance that.
Historically I have voted Labour, but not since the Iraq war – I couldn't countenance that.
But even if it had, I couldn't countenance the ick-factor.
I kept going in, day after day, even when feeling faint with derangement, in all probability because I couldn't countenance the thought of it not working out.
Many of the foodies who bleat on about it could not countenance living without things like lemons, figs and galangal.
If the contrary were the case and the harmless-error rule itself were shown to have resulted in a course of convictions significantly influenced by constitutionally impermissible factors, I think it clear that constitutional due process could not countenance the continued application of the rule.
