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The commissioner had countenanced Garrett's conduct, even when warned by onetime Governor Alvan Tufts Fuller; the commissioner had obtained Garrett's fraudulent pension for him.

From Time Magazine Archive

This was one offence; and another, that he had countenanced Lord Cloncurry, who, being a member of the Association, was unworthy to receive the King’s representative and the Chancellor.

From The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. I by Reeve, Henry

It may easily be understood that even if Margaret had countenanced Suneva’s festivities by her presence at them, she would have been only a silent and a reproachful guest.

From Jan Vedder's Wife by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

That is called lending the hand, and more than once the old lady had countenanced, through perfectly Christian charity, the secret interviews of sweet sheep with their tender pastor.

From The Grip of Desire by France, Hector

It was necessary for Lord Ellenborough, by a frank declaration of his intentions, to exclude the prevalent suspicion—nay, the universal belief—of those projects of encroachment which the Whig Government had countenanced.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843 by Various