Sentence examples for would not brook from inspiring English sources

He would not brook unhappiness.

Ms. Feinstein, whose career has been shaded with episodes of gun violence, would not brook it.

Here was proof that Sri Lanka's populist president would not brook any criticism, no matter how silly.

It was … a firework in his boiler?" Theo would not brook this kind of weaselly corner-cutting.

Up next was the parks commissioner, who said once again that he would not brook the trampling of the grass on the Great Lawn of Central Park.

Speaking at the burial of an independence war commander, he said he would not brook domestic opposition or accept foreign criticism.

"He wouldn't brook any interruption of his flow".

"I was at a gathering where people bad-mouthed him, and she wouldn't brook it," Janet Elder, the editor in charge of polling and election analysis, says.

Equitable Life went down because management wouldn't brook criticism, but if you are in business, you have to hear what's going wrong".

"Early on, when there were people around complaining about the Obama folks, she wouldn't brook it at all," Andrew J. Shapiro, Clinton's former Senate aide and now an assistant secretary of state, told me.

He would not tolerate homeless people in the streets, but neither would he brook dangerous shelters or a lack of beds for people to sleep in.