11 example sentences using countenance.
Countenance used in a sentence
Countenance in a sentence as a noun
Is there one sentence in the constitution which gives countenance to this rule?
My wife just flat-out refused to countenance the idea - so G+ lasted about 1 hour in my household.
For some reason our teams love email, wiki, IMs, but won't even countenance the benefit of realtime chat.
He is seldom seen; at least I have never seen him except in the remoter southern seas, and then always at too great a distance to study his countenance.
At last he entered the room, and from a lively expression in his countenance I observed in a moment that the great object of my long cherished ambition had been attained!
He is not trying to assert contradiction exists, he is trying to point out why we need to countenance ideas like a distinction between noumina and phenomena.
Countenance in a sentence as a verb
Preventing regulatory capture is obviously a hard problem but that's hardly any reason to countenance its presence.
Or do you want to countenance the possibility that only one address on each host is fast and you didn't create a subflow between them because you didn't try every possibility?
That, and a reflection of the ecosystem as it was when TM2 first started development; it's a lot easier to countenance a full rewrite when you're by far the dominant player in your particular market.
They might occasionally countenance a reduction in sentences, but they'll never allow a reduction in complexity and complication to emerge from our legislatures.
"cannot countenance the possibility that there is not a completely uniform distribution of ability across all conceivable human subgroups.
Countenance definitions
the appearance conveyed by a person's face; "a pleasant countenance"; "a stern visage"
See also: visage
formal and explicit approval; "a Democrat usually gets the union's endorsement"
See also: sanction endorsement indorsement warrant imprimatur
the human face (`kisser' and `smiler' and `mug' are informal terms for `face' and `phiz' is British)
See also: physiognomy phiz visage kisser smiler