Sentence examples for we cannot countenance from inspiring English sources

"We cannot countenance a situation in which an unarmed citizen is shot on sight.

There's a doctor whose career consists of going on TV talk shows and "telling America that we don't really know what disease is" and an agent who cannot countenance a bed in his exquisitely designed minimalist apartment.

We are left with the consideration that some culturemongers are content to watch violence on stage, but cannot countenance a glimpse of pubic hair.

I cannot countenance an indefinite walkout.

I cannot countenance the idea of it closing.

The government cannot countenance cutting credit lines to all at once.

But is there a timeframe beyond which even you cannot countenance?

I cannot countenance an indefinite walkout," said Dr Ben Norris, a junior doctor in general medicine in the south of England.

One morning, after Maggie pushes it too far, Mary Rose is blindsided by a rage she cannot countenance.

He is despised by many of the Brotherhood's other leaders, who cannot countenance either his independence or his popularity or, more likely, his moderation.

According to a copy of the brief secured by the Washington Post, they say that the constitution "cannot countenance an open-ended presidential power with no civilian review whatsoever".