had been countenancing
- past perfect progressive of countenance.
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The discovery that leading members of the Cabinet had been countenancing methods as reprehensible as those of the worst of their opponents, caused an uproar.
From A History of the Third French Republic by Wright, C. H. C. (Charles Henry Conrad)
