| Capital punishment has been outlawed most places, and even where it is allowed, brutality of that kind would not be countenanced. |
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| It is irresponsible and it should not be engaged in, and it should not be countenanced. |
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| And efforts to frustrate remedial measures that should be implemented must not be countenanced. |
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| Engineering is countenanced only as a desperate last-ditch response to climatic catastrophe. |
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| They show contempt for their vows and pose a danger of showing more serious contempt for our children which should not be countenanced. |
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| Mr Welch would never have countenanced the sale of GE's historic lighting business. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Our government must reaffirm its commitment to ending the use of torture and call to account the individuals who countenanced its use. |
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| Torture should remain anathema to a liberal democracy and should never be regulated, countenanced, or covertly accepted in a war on terror. |
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| The fact that a person mightn't be going was never even countenanced and those of us that were left to knock out the lights began to feel worse and worse as the day went on. |
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| Violence against women was an affront to women's dignity and human rights and should not be countenanced. |
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| But resistance to the proposition that AIDS still needs a colossal commitment by rich and poor alike should not be countenanced. |
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| As a consequence resort to a more objective assessment of alleged discrimination is countenanced. |
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| Countryspecific resolutions should be countenanced only in cases of great gravity. |
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| In approaching the terms of the treaty, the honour of the Crown is always involved and no appearance of sharp dealing will be countenanced. |
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| The use of offensive force will only be countenanced in situations where it is permitted by international law. |
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| Terrorism is a new phenomenon not countenanced in our laws, and legislation now has to be adapted. |
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| The SNP decided to withdraw as they felt that independence would not be a constitutional option countenanced by the convention. |
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| It has also led to a worldwide corrosion of human rights protection as extreme measures are countenanced, and repressive regimes are given approval, and even support, by the US, in the name of fighting terrorism. |
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| However, this would represent a significant institutional development that would have little chance of being countenanced by all Member States in the present phase of the integration process. |
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| The only measure that might be countenanced was the financing of a post for the Works of Art and Special Projects Unit, on condition, however, that it complied with the Fund's Financial Regulations. |
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| In this fragile era of democratization, dominant parties accustomed to occupying the political space hardly countenanced the power and legitimacy of opposition forces. |
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| In the UK retention of a limit on numbers should only be countenanced if it can be shown that there is no significant unmet demand for taxi services. |
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| But there is no way McCarthy would have countenanced failure. |
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| The SNP decided to withdraw as independence was not a constitutional option countenanced by the convention. |
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| Even though Beppe Grillo's Five Star Movement is now embracing a return to the lira, and the chauvinist Marine Le Pen is an increasingly plausible candidate for the Élysée, no let-up is countenanced. |
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| The DND also ensures that no HRVs will be countenanced or tolerated. |
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| The counter-insurgency warfare conducted with highly advanced weaponry by the Sudanese Government against its own citizens could not be countenanced because it tended towards indiscriminate, massive destruction. |
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| This requires the inclusion and participation of First Nations and treaty peoples in such decision-making because unilateral Crown actions are clearly unconstitutional and will no longer be countenanced by our courts. |
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| Although Napoleon divorced Joséphine in 1809, he refused to allow Hortense and Louis a divorce but countenanced their separation in 1810, when Holland was annexed to France. |
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| The cruel punishment was countenanced by the government, although it was not officially legal. |
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| Smear campaigns are typically characterized by charges that the smearee has committed a repugnant act, something that wouldn't be countenanced by any upstanding person. |
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