Our government must reaffirm its commitment to ending the use of torture and call to account the individuals who countenanced its use.
"We could never countenance individuals being put beyond the law as has happened at Guantánamo Bay". That period of being beyond the rule of law had now ended, he added, as a result of a supreme court decision allowing the detainees to challenge their incarceration in court.
Proponents of the last view considered above, however, do not countenance merely possible individuals, uninstantiated individual essences, nor contingently nonconcrete individuals.
The second Meinongian view requires countenancing individuals that do not exist.
Although many might dislike the outcomes of such assortative mating, few would countenance restrictions on individual liberty to date and marry in whatever way people happen to come together by mutual consent.
Even so, candy makers feel something of a squeeze as well, with big retail outlets unwilling to countenance price increases on individual chocolate bars.
Though some of Mill's pronouncements suggest that causing harm is a necessary condition of restricting liberty, closer inspection suggests that Mill countenances various restrictions on individual liberty that appear designed to benefit others, rather than prevent harm.
Rather than wait for the criminal justice system or bottom-line-focused tech giants to do the work of stamping out online abuse, the ethical onus rests on individual online users to collectively refuse to countenance, engage, or be entertained by abusive discourse — and to call it when we see it.
He would never, he says, countenance paying for private education.
QUESTION FROM GUEST: Peter Beinart has a column arguing that the most recent spate of terrorist attempts, initiated by individuals and only later countenanced by the Al Qaeda leadership, shows that the organization is in decline, that they can no longer fund and organize major operations like 9/11.
As he settled on a strategy for promoting his tax cut, which would direct its benefits overwhelmingly to individuals, Mr. Bush sent the message that he would not countenance changing or enlarging his proposal, and was willing to use the powers of his office against anyone who defied him.
