Sentences with phrase «countenanced by»

These attributes should be countenanced by the expression and behavior.»

Restricting disclosure to what the Crown considers to be sufficient for certain purposes at a particular time is not countenanced by Stinchcombe.

«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.»

That, at least, is the predicament countenanced by German - born artist Jorinde Voigt's current exhibition.

These attributes should be countenanced by the expression and behavior.

Just because stuff is written on a page doesn't mean that it was countenanced by the writer!

Not exact matches

By countenancing these mergers and leaving inefficient operations intact, the Fed created enormous firms that are clearly too big to manage and generally do not generate positive risk - adjusted or even nominal returns.»

To explain its relationship to resurrection, John Wesley draws an analogy with human experiences of joy and laughter, stating «the joy of the soul, even in this life, has some influence upon the countenance, by rendering it more open and cheerful.»

Prayer of the Day: «O God, who before the passion of your only begotten Son revealed his glory upon the holy mountain: Grant to us that we, beholding by faith the light of his countenance, may be strengthened to bear our cross, and be changed into his likeness from glory to glory; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.

No longer interested merely in the destinies of corporate groups, God was conceived as caring for persons one by one, so that prayer was a transfiguring individual experience — «As he was praying, the fashion of his countenance was altered.»

Such differences were denied by the participants in these parishes who, if they countenanced distinctions at all, would confine them to matters of practice (worship patterns, frequency of Scripture reading, baptism) and not faith.

First Things» heroic refusal to countenance a Catholic Shakespeare reminds one of the descendants of an esteemed ancestor who recently has been suspected of siring illegitimate offspring by a slave girl.

Any allusion to religion does seem to induce severe emotional disorder among those who deem themselves to be the cultural elite (but countenance being termed the cultural elite only by themselves and their friends, never by the likes of Dan Quayle).

Behind the demonic mask people fancy to behold the countenance of God's freedom; they do not allow themselves to be deluded by those temptations, but neither do they drive them away....

While the flustered bailiff searched for her in the witness room and the halls, the ancient black woman, her countenance ruined by many cares, got up from the spectators» section of the courtroom, where she had been listening to all preceding testimony, and gravely made her way to the stand.

The nearest approach, perhaps, to a definition which Jesus countenanced was propounded by an army officer who wanted his help.

You with your own hand drove out the nations, but them you planted; you afflicted the peoples, but them you set free; for not by their own sword did they win the land, nor did their own arm give them victory; but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your countenance, for you delighted in them.

And just as we no longer countenance slavery, which both Old and New Testaments regarded as normal, so we also no longer countenance the use of female slaves, concubines and captives as sexual toys or breeding machines by their male owners, which Leviticus 19:20 f., II Samuel 5:13 and Numbers 31:17 - 20 permitted — and as many American slave owners did slightly over 100 years ago.

Ask these our forebears if God countenances violence; surely they will counter with the question: How can human institutions be cleansed except by violence?

Instead, the present situation was much more accurately predicted by Huxley in Brave New World, which suggested that «in the age of advanced technology, spiritual devastation is more likely to come from an enemy with a smiling face than from one whose countenance exudes suspicion and hate.

Their distress was deepened by the pastoral observation of Bishop Austin Vaughan, auxiliary of New York, that the governor may be in danger of going to hell if he continues to countenance the mortal sin of abortion, which Vatican Council II called an «unspeakable crime.»

I was stunned by the change in his countenance from the previous week.

Perpetua went along with a shining countenance and calm step, as the beloved of the God, as a wife of Christ, putting down everyone's stare by her own intense gaze.

Bless us, O our Father, even all of us together, with the light of thy countenance; For by the light of thy countenance thou hast given us, O Lord our God, the Law of life, lovingkindness and righteousness, blessing, mercy, life and peace; And may it be good in thy sight to bless thy people Israel at all times and in every hour with thy peace.

From the time you make the batter, you're swayed by her fruity zesty countenance.

The Daily Mail have also reported that his current club have agreed not to stand in the player's way after refusing to countenance a move last summer, although they are looking for a big transfer fee that is said by the paper to be putting off Arsene Wenger and the chairman of our north London rivals.

She is far more likely to reach that point if pro-Union voters become so horrified by the state of Westminster that they simply can not countenance Scotland's continued participation.

Yet the blatant double - standards of the west - which freely conducts military operations in Pakistan, sometime at great human cost, but refuses to countenance a similar Indian reaction - is being felt acutely by the Indian public.

That both sides are willing to countenance it while a Con - Lib Coalition persists speaks volumes of the distance that has been travelled by the parties themselves, and British politics as a whole.

Labour would not countenance a deal that left Britain as a passive recipient of rules decided elsewhere by others.

On May 20, 2015, nine days BEFORE the government was inaugurated, I laid out «Policy Prescriptions» - diversification of production, government revenue, and exports; imperative of a strong and credible economic team and cabinet; targeting «opportunity sectors» (solid minerals, refining and petrochemicals, a new and realistic fiscal regime for upstream oil and gas, private sector investments in power and infrastructure, agro-processing, retail and construction); freeing «up resources from downstream petroleum sector deregulation» emphasizing «an economic reality in which hard decisions including some previously rebuffed by the opposition will have to be taken» a clear reference to the petrol subsidy which government waited a full year before countenancing the critical decision!

«Even Thomas Atiga, the Ashanti Regional Secretary then who went to support Patricia Agyei's candidature in the Asawase by - election were all dismissed because Dr. Mahama won't countenance it.

Kamarudeen Ogundele, Ado Ekiti Pain, anger, sorrow, loss, distraught, fear; all of those typified the emotions portrayed by Terkibi Yakpe's countenance.

Debate over Chagnon's work continues, but research by Dreger, which she describes in the book, severely undercuts the charges of genocide and countenancing homicide.

Although human faces were unique in some ways, they also bore some striking similarities to those of other species: «He who will look at a dog preparing to attack another dog or a man, and at the same animal when caressing his master, or will watch the countenance of a monkey when insulted, and when fondled by his keeper, will be forced to admit that the movements of their features and their gestures are almost as expressive as those of man.»

Human interaction can be made fruitful by various means as one can figure out a presentable countenance is also helpful.

The daughter of actors, Brooke Adams was once praised by the press for her supremely flexible countenance — with expressions and demeanors to accommodate virtually any emotion or situation.

By 1976, he was working as a full - time actor, his weather - beaten countenance and self - assuredness enlivening many an otherwise «flat» scene.

KM: Stellan Skarsgard's Seligman, Joe's enthusiastic audience, seems a gentle soul, clearly late - middle - aged but strangely childlike in countenance, his faded features unmarked by experience.

by Walter Chaw Deadening, dull, sepia - drenched faux - noir period hokum of a suddenly popular stripe, Allen Coulter's Hollywoodland casts lantern - jawed, wooden - countenanced Ben Affleck as his way - back literal and metaphorical doppelgänger George Reeves.

Her unsteady countenance, flanked by makeup artists and crew members affixing a squib to the side of her head above the wig line, first seems symptomatic of her inability to grasp the character, but each time the film returns to it, the implications change with further knowledge of Christine and how Kate interprets her life and untimely demise.

Ephemeral (The Countenance) by Addison Moore 4.8 stars — 88 Reviews Kindle Price: $ 3.99 Text - to - Speech and Lending: Enabled ** Addison Moore's Celestra Series has been optioned for film by 20th Century Fox ** Here's the set - up: Young Adult / Mature Situations In the grand scheme of things, you'll be dead a lot longer than you'll ever be -LSB-...]

The essay «Painting and Countenance» is, as is much of my writing on painting, discursive by nature, an attempt to try to find another way to speak about painting beyond the overbearing arc of formal judgemental criticism, which has been, and continues to be so detrimental to any meaningful debate around painting, especially abstract painting in this country.

Where They Satisfy ostensibly refers to the cigarette dangling from the mouth of the uniformed woman sporting a seductive countenance, the cigarette also plays a prominent visual role in Farewell Uncle Tom, though the title emphasizes assertively black cultural politics signaled by the couple's natural hairstyles and dashikis.

Many gatekeepers of the museum and art market establishments were loath to countenance the unconventional Arnett or his championing of previously unknown artists, and the producers fed the storyline of exploitation of African Americans by an eccentric white collector.

Yet in his art he combined a love of atmospheric perspective, later emulated by the Impressionists, with a sense of awe before nature that the Modernists would have ill - countenanced.

Japan Society Gallery presents her latest countenance in this major solo exhibition, Rebirth, as a significant artistic statement by Mori.

In addition to Countenance Divine, LAAA is proud to feature solo exhibitions by Bibi Davidson, Zeal Harris and Stephanie Sydney and Snezana Saraswati Petrovic.

By +6 ºC there is work suggesting an increased ECS with increased temperature (eg Hansen & Sato 2012) but to suggest that ECS changes enough to countenance that +12 ºC world remains wholly controversial.

That's the only kind of albedo - modification geoengineering I could countenance, and by the time that is needed, presumably we'll have the wisdom to deploy it safely and the technology to make it robust.