Exempel på countenanced

• But if such complacency cannot be countenanced, that returns us to our original problem.

• Only that which serves the people may be countenanced.

• Alternatively, when in everyday circumstances real motion does not fit the countenanced pattern, it will usually be perceived veridically.

• What technologies are countenanced within the musical canons and the economies of the music industry?

• Public preference for active discrimination or persecution of minority groups, for example, should not be countenanced.

• The case clearly illustrates a rarely countenanced aspect of the ' distributional encounters ', but does so without identifying changing symbolic boundaries.

• Evolution would have been countenanced long before, but for the opposition from landed and clerical interests who feared its deadly threat to the divine ordering of the world.

• Should this sceptical scenario be countenanced, it would appear that realists go beyond their epistemic rights in inferring from a theory's success, to its probable truth or verisimilitude.

• In each of the four cases, the deaths are in a real sense instrumental, necessary for the greater good, envisaged, foreseen, and voluntarily countenanced for that very reason.

• However, when this 'solution' is countenanced, other equally 'awkward' questions arise with equally perplexing implications for the 'neutrality' of transitions.

• If that option is to be countenanced, what price now the purchaser-provider split?

• I hope that these social considerations, which have carried weight in the past, will not be countenanced in this organisation.

• I do not want for a moment to minimize mutiny or revolt in time of war: it is a terrible thing, which cannot be countenanced.

• It is therefore not to be countenanced under any circumstances.

• That policy cannot be countenanced for one moment.