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Example sentences for: countenance

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He could hardly countenance any public appearance of an ongoing contention between Dean Gooderham Acheson/ Yale/ Secretary of State/ and Joe McCarthy/ Chicken Farmer/ Marquette --wherever Marquette was--/ Junior Senator from --a state that had lost its senses.
The Sunday papers placed the blame for the deadlock on Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic's intransigent refusal to countenance a NATO-led force as peacekeepers, despite the fact that Kosovo Albanians were holding out for a referendum on independence once the three year interim period covered by the proposed settlement expired.
Dwelly gives a `ripple on the surface of water'; and MacLennan says, `bristles, anger, a girning expression of countenance.
The NYT interprets this to mean that Serbs are willing to countenance "armed foreigners on their territory," which might be a first step towards some sort of agreement.
That is the ultimate blessing in the key Judeo-Christian benediction: "May the Lord bless you and keep you, may He lift up the light of his countenance upon you and give you peace."