That policy cannot be countenanced for one moment.
It is therefore not to be countenanced under any circumstances.
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.
I hope that these social considerations, which have carried weight in the past, will not be countenanced in this organisation.
If that option is to be countenanced, what price now the purchaser-provider split?
However, when this 'solution' is countenanced, other equally 'awkward' questions arise with equally perplexing implications for the 'neutrality' of transitions.
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.
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.
