| 词汇 | example_english_countenance |
| 释义 | Examples of countenanceThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. By compromising illusion, theatre-in-theround subverts the artistic hegemony the proscenium countenances. An evolutionarily informed theory of action countenances overlapping causal domains: neurobiological, psychological, and rational. Thus, just as mathematical constr uctivism countenances only those mathematical entities that can be constr ucted from a proof,18 political construc17. Their happy "countenances" were as easy to read as plain pictures. The problem with inclusive legal positivism is that it countenances rules that are incapable of either directly or indirectly epistemically guiding conduct. Evolution would have been countenanced long before, but for the opposition from landed and clerical interests who feared its deadly threat to the divine ordering of the world. Should this sceptical scenario be countenanced, it would appear that realists go beyond their epistemic rights in inferring from a theory's success, to its probable truth or verisimilitude. In each of the four cases, the deaths are in a real sense instrumental, necessary for the greater good, envisaged, foreseen, and voluntarily countenanced for that very reason. Given the relation between a predicate and the property that is its meaning, it follows that adopting a particular predicate scheme entails countenancing a particular distribution of properties. If that option is to be countenanced, what price now the purchaser-provider split? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I hope that these social considerations, which have carried weight in the past, will not be countenanced in this organisation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not want for a moment to minimize mutiny or revolt in time of war: it is a terrible thing, which cannot be countenanced. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The amount of work involved is too great for that to be countenanced. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I was dismayed to hear they have now countenanced this, and unless some change of policy takes place they will go ahead. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are all against the public interest and would never be countenanced. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Of course, in the rare exceptional case, authority for proposed publications or other forms of disclosure can be countenanced. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have no doubt that his predecessor would not have countenanced such a gesture. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Would it be the recipient charity controlling the endowment, or the lottery distributing body that countenanced the funding to the endowment in the first place? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They do so because, through our inaction, we are countenancing behaviour which should be seen as criminal and deserving of penalty. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Can it really be countenanced that those wages should be allowed to fall even lower? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am sure that such a procedure could not be countenanced in the present economic climate. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Their positions are all the result of patronage, and the notion that, in itself, patronage is absolutely evil and must never be countenanced is nonsense. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Any change countenanced at any stage would involve the fullest consultation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have countenanced no closure and no change in service, unless and until those criteria are met. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Such a reduction in facilities would never be countenanced in the more elite parts of the private education sector. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There was a feeling that lawlessness was to be countenanced. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Gambling, in my judgment, is morally wrong, and therefore should not be countenanced! From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We cannot afford to have people who are not patrial being countenanced, if they would undermine the good order of our society. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If we have a reproach to make to ourselves, it is, in my view, for countenancing and accepting such an absurd condition. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not believe, and have never believed, that any deliberate under-employment of the economy should ever be countenanced to improve the balance of payments. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The question of family deportation would not then be publicly countenanced. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The system degraded men, and a civilised community should never have countenanced it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not believe such a thing could be countenanced or could come about. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In fact, their lead has been in the other direction: they have countenanced all too easily national wage negotiations. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are: protection against exports and subsequent use that would be not be countenanced in this country; implantation in animals; and experimentation beyond 14 days. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 No move to sideline or undermine it should be countenanced. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not think it right that this sort of thing should be countenanced. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 False political industrial developments should not be countenanced. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They countenanced rigged elections, filched funds and the ruthless suppression of liberal opposition and religious freedom. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The needs of the country are so great that this should not be countenanced at the present time. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I understand that that is called, "de-accessioning" and in my view it should not be countenanced over here. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am sure that in any other transport mode deferment of obvious accident measures would not be countenanced. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The closure of hospitals or other reductions in services direct to patients should not be countenanced until every other avenue has been thoroughly explored. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 No worker should be engaged at present on a four-day week, and we should not be countenancing it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I trust that they are right when they think that these things ought not to be countenanced. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We see fraud on a scale that would not be countenanced in this country. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Far from that being the case, under the current arrangement generous increases have been countenanced and others observed during the past 15 years. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 No use of chemicals based on æsthetic, or even practical, advantages should be countenanced if they have harmful effects on animals. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In a former age we should never have countenanced the studied insults that are heaped upon us to-day. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Violence used to extort confessions is utterly wrong and cannot be countenanced. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is a legitimate demand that lethal force be countenanced only when unavoidable in order to protect lives. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Why was it to be shouted from the rooftops in 1992, but not to be countenanced in 1997? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Only if insufficient land is available from those sources can green belt alterations be countenanced. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Lawyers know that often they cover situations that would not have been countenanced otherwise. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If that has occurred, it is something which ought not to be countenanced. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We were told originally that such amendments as we required could not even be countenanced. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We must not admit that any sort of war can be countenanced. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 How long ought this symbiotic situation without dichotomy of responsibility that runs itself into stalemate to be countenanced in the conduct of our home affairs? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is obviously a view that inflated pay should not be countenanced in this case. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 First, by countenancing much higher expenditure, are we disadvantaging certain parties' or candidates' chances of electoral success? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Let us suppose that the unreasonable, it may be iniquitous, conduct of the chief constable is countenanced by the elected council of the district. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not approve of countenancing these borrowing facilities by the issuing houses; they are not in the interests either of the borrowers or of the lenders. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 No use of chemicals based on effective aesthetic or even practical advantages conferred on food by these substances should be countenanced if they have harmful effects on animals;. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I make this point only to indicate that if livestock losses on that scale had been countenanced in an intensive livestock unit the owner would have been out of business. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is there to be no consideration of basic legislation to prevent the separation of families, which would never be countenanced in other countries that we criticise? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Therefore, the amendment countenances surrounding the sick child at the bedside not only with a magistrate, lawyers and clerks, but also with the whole paraphernalia of video recording equipment. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In the light of that, we do not think that it would be appropriate to close off the possibility of charging, as countenanced in new clause 4. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Clearly that could not be countenanced. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Much has changed since then, especially (and some of us regret this) the social attitudes to betting and in the open betting which the law now countenances. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are countenancing difficulties that judges have had even over the past 20 years—as far back as my memory goes and perhaps longer—dealing with the power of such expert evidence. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We were countenancing a very severe form of deterrent because we were training a type of man who, by and large, did what he was told. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Such legislation is bad, evil and not to be countenanced when it makes something a crime today that was not a crime when it was perpetrated. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have never countenanced them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They cannot claim that our actions are on the very edge of disproportionality while countenancing the view that we host those who should be ejected from our country or incarcerated. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 No delays should be countenanced. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Such a procedure had never been countenanced. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I trust his plea will be listened to and that no change in the priorities which have been accorded to shipbuilding will be countenanced for a moment. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 No other country countenances that. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Should we really be prepared to countenance such a proliferation of 'oughts'? The accompaniment soon gives way to a semiquaver wheedling figure, painting the epidermal 'worm' that belies the serene countenance (bars 20-21). There would be a physical change in the countenance of the par tic ipants. Notoriously, women tolerate qualities in a lover-moodiness, selfishness, unreliability, brutality-that they never countenance in a husband, in return for excitement, an infusion of intense feeling. While the reasons for such a vengeance motif are perhaps evident, can it really be countenanced? From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Clearly, then, a criticism which aims to praise cannot countenance anything in the poem that does not tally with prevailing notions of conventional morality. Schemes for territorial change, however, were neither countenanced nor condemned. The one stares and the other grins; but is there common dignity in the countenances? Parliament, he said, had been careful to avoid even the appearance of countenancing such a doctrine. Men can not improve the beauty of their countenances, but almost all of us can, if we wish, add to the attractiveness of our speech. Medically, their absence of inner heat, susceptible temperaments, pale countenances and enervated sensibilities bore out their emptiness of being. There is too much disagreement over posthumous harms for the fact that it countenances them to be counted unequivocally in favour of a particular theory. The women pictured in these photos shared the modest dress and somber countenances of most of the beauty competition entrants. He countenanced talk of physical objects, so long as we understand the very essence of such objects to involve their being perceived. Only that which serves the people may be countenanced. By grounding mathematical truths in our beliefs, constructivism avoids countenancing what constructivists regard as an implausible metaphysics and a mysterious epistemology. Such analyses were dangerously susceptible of countenancing individual fancy, undermining a national church. There is no countenancing that workers might want music played in periods and for durations which are not necessarily compatible with increased output. What technologies are countenanced within the musical canons and the economies of the music industry? In so countenancing this, they are committed to countenancing that we cannot know what physical property unique green is. Public preference for active discrimination or persecution of minority groups, for example, should not be countenanced. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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