Ví dụ về countenance

• By compromising illusion, theatre-in-theround subverts the artistic hegemony the proscenium countenances.

• An evolutionarily informed theory of action countenances overlapping causal domains: neurobiological, psychological, and rational.

• Thus, just as mathematical constr uctivism countenances only those mathematical entities that can be constr ucted from a proof,18 political construc17.

• Their happy "countenances" were as easy to read as plain pictures.

• The problem with inclusive legal positivism is that it countenances rules that are incapable of either directly or indirectly epistemically guiding conduct.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• The amount of work involved is too great for that to be countenanced.

• I was dismayed to hear they have now countenanced this, and unless some change of policy takes place they will go ahead.

• They are all against the public interest and would never be countenanced.