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If the public expresses contempt and revulsion for bankers who cheat their clients, oil executives who wreck the climate, FIFA officials who countenance kickbacks, and politicians who cozy up to all of them in exchange for campaign funds and bribes, illegality for the few cannot become the norm.
But the one approach that they must not choose is to do nothing – unless they are willing to countenance further erosion of the global order and, with it, a continued descent into chaos and violence.
Rather than protecting democracy in the Middle East, European appeasement, camouflaged behind the fuzzy word “equidistance,” often seems to countenance suicide bombings in Israel by fundamentalist Palestinians.
But, more to the point, the EU cannot countenance the disintegration of member states, because these states comprise the very foundation upon which it rests.
Led by former Attorney General Dominic Grieve, the rebel Tory MPs refused to countenance such a step, regardless of the cost.
For its part, the Trump administration has been operating under the assumption that the Iranian regime is so bereft of legitimacy and enfeebled by domestic discontent that it could never countenance a major war with the US.
Policymakers from both parties have refused to advocate, or even countenance, public investments in carbon-free alternative energy sources and infrastructure.
And since then, Israel’s right-wing government under Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has begun to countenance the outright theft – through annexation – of even more Palestinian territory.
Some of the main bondholders, particularly BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, have refused to countenance such debt relief, which they consider too generous.
Bringing these countries to the international table might make them more willing to countenance opposition at home.
But joining the CPTPP would not be painless: it would require the US to countenance more trade opening, which the current domestic mood might not allow.
He forgot the unpleasant impression left by their last encounter, and with an open and joyful countenance held out his hand to his old schoolfellow.
They pretended to understand completely the significance and meaning of the situation, to countenance and even approve of it, but to consider it out of place and unnecessary to explain all this.
He is a good horse, and I advise you to buy him,' said Yashvin, glancing at his comrade's gloomy countenance.
Taking care not to make a noise they entered the dim reading-room, where, under shaded lamps, a young man with an angry countenance sat turning over one newspaper after another, and a bald General was engrossed in what he was reading.
They both showed themselves for a moment at a window of the receiving-room; the head captain stood in the background, rather out of countenance since his adventure with Pierronne, while the engineer bravely looked round on the crowd with his bright little eyes, smiling with that sneering contempt in which he enveloped men and things generally.
There was a burst of laughter from the boys, which so thoroughly put the poor lad out of countenance that he did not know whether to keep his cap in his hand, leave it on the ground, or put it on his head.
Emma blushed as he entered, and she gave a little forced laugh to keep herself in countenance.
Homais, to keep himself in countenance, took up a water-bottle on the whatnot to water the geraniums.
While he was repeating these vain words, with an awkward smile which enhanced the air of falsehood and almost of rascality natural to his countenance, the old peasant's active mind was seeking to discover what reason could be inducing so important a personage to take his scapegrace of a son into his establishment.
Among the innumerable varieties of the human countenance, there is perhaps none that is more strikingly characteristic.
For the first time, she had surprised signs of fear on that calm and noble countenance.
This distress was clearly shown on her pure countenance; so simple when she was happy and away from bores.
'I shall go to the village, and return with a troubled countenance; I shall indeed be greatly troubled.
He saw in the distance the abbe Chas-Bernard, standing by the door of his beloved Cathedral; he was a large man with a joyful countenance and an open air.
This modest post was the envy of all the flatterers; Norbert kept his father's young secretary in countenance by addressing him or uttering his name once or twice in the course of the evening.
He took up a newspaper to keep himself in countenance, and strolled three or four times from the drawing-room to the garden.
To keep herself in countenance, she took Madame de Fervaques's letters in her hands; she broke the seals slowly.
That countenance, once so lively, and so vigorous in its expression of the noblest sentiments, was no longer to be aroused from a state of apathy.
She did not even find on his handsome countenance the imprint of that energetic, that almost wild virtue, so antipathetic to Parisian society.
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