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Because it is outrageous that such a wealthy city has countenanced inhuman living conditions like this for years.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 25, 2023

And the league office has countenanced it — and even covered for it with its own double-dealing.

From Washington Post • Oct. 19, 2022

It is the parsimonious conduct of democracy towards its principal officers which has countenanced a supposition of far more economical propensities than any which it really possesses.

From Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Reeves, Henry

Wherever German power has made itself felt for the last forty years—in Italy and Austria, in Russia and Turkey—it has countenanced reaction and tyranny.

From German Problems and Personalities by Saroléa, Charles

It is the parsimonious conduct of democracy toward its principal officers, which has countenanced a supposition of far more economical propensities than any which it really possesses.

From American Institutions and Their Influence by Tocqueville, Alexis de