| Engineering is countenanced only as a desperate last-ditch response to climatic catastrophe. |
| It is never the best method of fault correction, and should not be countenanced. |
| No such impropriety will be countenanced in Down District, however, with the sites open to Councillors being of a legal, technical and educational nature only. |
| Our government must reaffirm its commitment to ending the use of torture and call to account the individuals who countenanced its use. |
| My mother was responsible, solely because in deference to his manic passion for rock 'n' roll music my father wanted to call me Elvisa and had to be countenanced at all costs. |
| Capital punishment has been outlawed most places, and even where it is allowed, brutality of that kind would not be countenanced. |
