countenancing

For, if it was the principle of his religion that the gospel is the instrument of our justification and not the law, then he did very ill in countenancing those who kept up the law, and were for mixing it with faith in the business of our justification.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721

He laughed at the idea of countenancing an engagement between a child like Marcella and an obscure country doctor.

Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908 1908

[Surely, Landor's old antagonism to former English governments led him into error and injustice when he accuses England of "countenancing" the tyrannies of the Neapolitan government.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 Various

* "The Democratic Party has enough troubles without countenancing traitors within its ranks pandering to the worst elements of the right."

Should a Democratic Delegate Have Attended the Virginia Tea Party Convention? 2010

And Lobo, of course, not the gangs, is the one ordering the police to attack demonstrations and countenancing paramilitary assassinations.

Dana Frank: Repression's Reward in Honduras? Dinner with Obama Dana Frank 2010

Meanwhile Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank ECB, has breached the taboo of not countenancing a break-up of the eurozone.

Eurozone crisis live: UK refuses to contribute to €200bn IMF package - 19 December 2011 2011

Next step: apply some of those rules to the 27-nation EU to prevent non-euro countries from gaining a competitive advantage over euro-zone members, as France and others complain Britain has done by allowing the pound to float, countenancing a less regulated labor market, and keeping regulation of financial services to an essential minimum.

Prepare for a Euro Zone Divided in Two Irwin Stelzer 2011

But the terms of the "deal" do not include countenancing what has occurred in Abyei, Southern Kordofan and other contested border areas leave aside the relentless suffering and destruction in Darfur.

Sudan's self-inflicted economic distress | Eric Reeves 2011

And Lobo, of course, not the gangs, is the one ordering the police to attack demonstrations and countenancing paramilitary assassinations.

Dana Frank: Repression's Reward in Honduras? Dinner with Obama Dana Frank 2010

And Lobo, of course, not the gangs, is the one ordering the police to attack demonstrations and countenancing paramilitary assassinations.

Dana Frank: Repression's Reward in Honduras? Dinner with Obama Dana Frank 2010