They are all against the public interest and would never be countenanced.
I was dismayed to hear they have now countenanced this, and unless some change of policy takes place they will go ahead.
The amount of work involved is too great for that to be countenanced.
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?
Given the relation between a predicate and the property that is its meaning, it follows that adopting a particular predicate scheme entails countenancing a particular distribution of properties.
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.
