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That financial discipline may have consequences - while the feeling was Elliot Anderson would have joined Manchester City anyway, United did not countenance paying the £116m Nottingham Forest eventually sold him for.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

Such a vote would need to be signed off by the UK government, which has repeatedly refused to countenance the idea.

From BBC ● May 9, 2026

But despite soundtracking 128 episodes worth of hormonal melodrama, Cole’s song most immediately evokes one image: the devilishly handsome, All-American countenance of the show’s star, James Van Der Beek.

From Salon ● Feb. 15, 2026

In Kyiv, Olena Andriyeva, a 64-year-old pensioner, said she would be prepared to countenance the loss of her native city of Luhansk in eastern Ukraine, occupied by Russia since 2014.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 25, 2025

Wild was the wrestle which should be paramount; but another feeling rose and triumphed: something hard and cynical: self-willed and resolute: it settled his passion and petrified his countenance: he went on—

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

“One month after directing that the petitioners’ suit could proceed in part, the court countenances yet another violation of its own commands,” Justice Sotomayor wrote.

From New York Times ● Jan. 20, 2022

Some of us, though, will be suspicious of anything that countenances the missing of even the smallest part of a film.

From The Guardian ● May 2, 2019

A dying figure, Agni, is surrounded by the countenances of mythic beings, including Mozart, Lewis Carroll, a witch, the Queen of the Night, Copernicus, Tristan and Isolde.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2016

His rough-edged, early-modernist style suits their humble clothing and vanquished countenances.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 10, 2016

Presently the tumult died down.The four pigs waited, trembling, w'ith guilt written on every line of their countenances.

From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell

It understood its sector — venture capitalists and technology start-ups — and made loans that national banks would never have countenanced.

From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2023

Because it is outrageous that such a wealthy city has countenanced inhuman living conditions like this for years.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 25, 2023

Ms. Notz, though, said the founders never countenanced the idea of revocation so those shouldn’t count.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 28, 2022

The complexity of Facebook’s systems will no longer be countenanced as an excuse for failing to regulate it.

From Slate ● Dec. 20, 2018

This was extravagant and not to be countenanced.

From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck

If Holmes’ constant appeal is an easily solvable case, then countenancing the possibility that there may be much more to his life than what Doyle shared isn’t impossible either.

From Salon ● Apr. 16, 2025

Even this court, though, can hopefully still be shamed from countenancing the worst abuses of power likely to come before them.

From Slate ● May 18, 2023

Even wise, cool heads, such as the French diplomatist Jean-Marie Guéhenno, are seriously countenancing the idea that a no-deal Brexit may be better than prolonging the agony.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 9, 2019

At any rate, Rubio got flak from the right, which accused him of somehow countenancing illegal activity.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 10, 2015

He would not relinquish the French claim to the North Sea; but he dared not risk a rupture of his secret treaty with England by openly countenancing Radisson's exploit on the Nelson river.

From The "Adventurers of England" on Hudson Bay A Chronicle of the Fur Trade in the North (Volume 18 of the Chronicles of Canada) by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut