Sentence examples for not countenanced from inspiring English sources

Merely toasty or cool were clearly not countenanced.

The diocese acknowledged the incident, but in a statement said that "deviant sexual behavior is not countenanced" in the church.

An informal price of €18m (£12.7m) was presented by the Spanish club but this was not countenanced.

Mr Ozawa has said that the upper house will vote down any extension of operations not countenanced by the United Nations.Already, Mr Fukuda is unsettling the DPJ.

We got off the plane – a Turkish Airlines Airbus, because our insurance companies had not countenanced our travelling by Iran Air – and joined the queue for passport control.

Those who hold themselves to be aggrieved have just cause for all they do because grievance, in our time, is sacrosanct; the idea that cultures can self-generate rage is not countenanced because it spoils the story.

But Mr Yanagisawa will not countenance that.

We do not countenance illegal immigration.

All the same, Putin could not countenance them.

Mr Michael's colleagues would not countenance a coalition.

The Sixth Amendment does not countenance this result".