The word
"countenance" refers to a person's face, especially their facial expression or the way their face looks.
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Page and Simmons helpfully explicate how all aspects of government, even the necessary laws of commerce
countenanced by libertarians, shape economic markets in ways that benefit or burden the poorest citizens.
Oye Lithur in a quick rebuttal described Mr. Ayapong's comments as regrettable, adding that «women of Ghana will not
countenance such comments and personal attacks on women who have committed to serve Ghana in public office.»
It's an absurdity of constitutional interpretation that the Court routinely allows in the context of federalism but would
never countenance in other areas of law.
Throw in the improved Apple Pencil — something Apple continues to stubbornly refuse to
even countenance on its Macs — and it stops being anything close to a compromise and starts to look like the alternative for the mainstream that Apple always claimed it was.
Bleich's thesis is that «conversions of convenience are not sanctioned by halakhah and can not be
countenanced as a panacea designed to minimize the exacerbating problems posed by intermarriage.»
Released theatrically overseas (in some countries as a two - part movie) but presented as a television miniseries for its stateside showing, this handsome production showcases British actor Robert Powell portraying one of the best Christs the screen has seen, effectively mixing a divine
countenance with recognizably human emotions.
Los Angeles Art Association is pleased to present
Countenance Divine, an all - media exploration of contemporary portraiture opening on Saturday, October 15 at Gallery 825.
Aiman had a broad, clean - shaven chin, short, dark hair and a
serious countenance hiding his good sense of humor.
Projector headlamps and LED daytime running lights bring the Mirage's
countenance into the 21st century.
Given the logical consequences of such an argument and the American churches» general failure to articulate convincingly their reasons
for countenancing abortion occasionally while still deeming the fetus a human life, it is surprising that this mediating position on abortion has gained so much support in American Protestantism and among the American public.
However, the $ 32,500 component was pure «punishment,» not
countenanced under the discovery statutes.
There's something about Fanning's face — particularly her slim, upward - sloping nose and round, pronounced cheekbones — that in a certain light looks very like a skull, and Refn and his cinematographer Natasha Braier eagerly capitalise on that, giving her the kind of «totem -
like countenance» that used to bring Roland Barthes out in a nervous sweat.
«These lawyers represented their clients in segregated courthouses at a time when justice was neither equal nor fair, and when racial discrimination was not
only countenanced by the law — it was the law.»
Later, when we were inside warming ourselves, Hattie talked quietly with her aunt, whose
entire countenance had stiffened from earlier in the day.
Mourinho has told the British media that, for ethical reasons, he couldn't
possibly countenance another bid for Rooney before Monday's game between the two clubs.
I thought about his wry
countenance when I perused Ai Weiwei's sensational and certainly not ironic self - advertising in a desultory file of clippings I've accumulated.
After the find has received its new covering, the man steps back and with his whole
countenance beams his approval.
His rust - hued
countenance radiated health and intelligence — as though he had spent a joyous lifetime reading books in a wet wind.
They believed that conversion to radical Christian ideals entailed repudiation of all unjust structures of government, including those which subjugated women or
which countenanced the enslavement of Negroes.
(In Kienholz's bar, the people have been given weird human
countenances made out of clock faces; the hands, all pointing at ten past ten, create eyebrows.)
As a publicly supported institution and a reputable university, Ball State can not
countenance religious teachings being presented as science.
The young inspector looks over my papers and, with a
sober countenance, informs me that my visa had expired the day before.
He looked like the sun, some said, huge rays of light bursting from his brain, his
whole countenance changed, having been alone on the mountain with God without adequate protection.
He had a noble and always
serene countenance, a large mouth with white, slightly separated teeth, black eyes set in a somewhat bloodshot background, a white, rosy skin, and black, wavy hair falling just below his ears.
They also took a very negative view of worldly society and some of them were prepared to
countenance rebellion against unjust and ungodly princes.
I imagine you will find some way to discredit the great Jewish historian Josephus: «Now when the Sodomites saw the young men to be of
beautiful countenances, and this to an extraordinary degree, and that they took up their lodgings with Lot, they resolved themselves to enjoy these beautiful boys by force and violence»
In which case Duke is deciding — as is pointed out by Professor Geoffrey Wainwright, the university's senior theologian in his protest against the decision — that Christianity
countenances same - sex unions.
cit., II, 126) or as the vision of the
divine countenance or as a uniting of the soul with the heavenly spouse, it is one and the same reality to which the pious soul keeps looking while in this state of finiteness and which it is already anticipating within this finiteness.
Sometime in the last ten years the confident and inscrutable mien that we all knew and were fond of, his chutzpah, gave way to a
fearful countenance, puerile excuses and touchline tantrums.
European leaders now
happily countenance the prospect of people starving in Greece to salvage their disastrous, world - breaking toy.
Had he been in Hollywood in the 1930s or 1940s, Vincent Schiavelli's Halloween -
mask countenance, shock of unkempt hair and baleful voice might have permanently consigned him to minor roles in horror or gangster pictures.
So basically we have people who have no information and no ability to analyse information and who refuse to
countenance alternative ideas, convincing each other to trade.
Jury awarded $ 19,000 in damages, but the
judge countenanced a defence of publication privilege and reduced this to $ 1,000.