| It is never the best method of fault correction, and should not be countenanced. |
| Capital punishment has been outlawed most places, and even where it is allowed, brutality of that kind would not be countenanced. |
| Torture should remain anathema to a liberal democracy and should never be regulated, countenanced, or covertly accepted in a war on terror. |
| 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. |
| It is irresponsible and it should not be engaged in, and it should not be countenanced. |
| It does not appear that this absurd design was ever countenanced by the King. |
