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No matter how few people an MBA programme can attract, few schools will countenance dropping the programme altogether: a business school is defined by its MBA.

From Economist Oct. 15, 2015

But there are limits to what Americans will countenance.

From US News Sep. 11, 2014

That he’s no longer with a woman who will countenance nasty behavior like abandoning your wife in a motel parking lot?

From Slate Apr. 23, 2012

And it is certainly true that he will countenance no cheap theatrics.

From New York Times Apr. 14, 2011

But this indictment contains many matters which I neither can nor will countenance by assent or silence.

From Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason by Ainsworth, William Harrison