not countenance
Example Sentences
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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
We are looking literally right now on Twitter at someone who will not countenance any sort of challenge to authority, or the rightness of his positions, or the idea that he could learn something.
From Salon ● Nov. 21, 2022
“But because he worked for Texas, he had no cause of action. The war powers … do not countenance that result. It’s not right.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 29, 2022
But despite the risks involved, most would not countenance the idea of not meeting constituents face-to-face, saying it undermines the democracy they believe in.
From Reuters ● Oct. 21, 2021
I could not countenance that we would abandon the town.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
