Example Sentences

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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

"Finish it as you will, Master Wingfield," she said haughtily, "but you think wrongly that she will countenance treason to the king in her own household, and 'tis treason that is brewing to-night."

From The Heart's Highway by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins