Sentence examples for ready to countenance from inspiring English sources

This could be a major development: Downing Street appears ready to countenance a confirmatory referendum.

They seem ready to countenance political negotiations one day with authorities in Kabul, which IS would not.

Deep down, however, the Americans are far more ready to countenance liberalisation of trade in agriculture than is the EU.

Controls will not be lifted altogether in the absence of a comprehensive trade agreement and political concessions over sovereignty that neither side, for now, shows any sign of being ready to countenance.

By 1979, when the Iranian revolution interrupted oil imports again, the American public was ready to countenance a new modus operandi: environmentally destructive deregulation of the domestic energy industry and aggressive militarism to preserve oil access abroad.

And many in Pakistan will see this week's offensive against the Taliban in the Swat valley in North-West Frontier Province as an American-ordained onslaught on fellow Pakistani Muslims.The government signed a peace deal with the Taliban in Swat in February, and even seemed ready to countenance the Taliban's expansion last month into the neighbouring districts of Buner and Lower Dir.

With Iraq demanding an end to sanctions, and America, its bombers at the ready, refusing to countenance any such thing, there could indeed be sleepless nights to come.

Since launching this strategy four years ago, Cameron has played the part of the man wrapped in the union flag determined to squeeze a better deal from Europe, ready, if all else fails, to countenance departure.

Instead, Emmanuel Macron frustrated the room with his flat refusal to countenance a long delay that most leaders were ready to accept.

The regime refuses to countenance this.

To countenance anything else was impossible".