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  • Now these folks are about a thousand light years to the right of our BNP, who, fascists as they are would, never counternance hanging little girls from a crane for some sexual peccadillo.

    OPEN THREAD 2009

  • However, what was left were hailed as some of the best pictures from D-Day and the slightly melted emulsion gives them a more gritty counternance.

    Robert Capa's Spanish Civil War treasure trove 2008

  • Still, repeating stories like this are quite important, else there is no counternance to the spin the Council puts out.

    Newsshopper short of copy? 2006

  • Still, repeating stories like this are quite important, else there is no counternance to the spin the Council puts out.

    Archive 2006-10-01 2006

  • He said Mandela, while respecting the independence of the judiciary, was "not prepared to counternance any form of racism, and if people think he can be persuaded otherwise, they are wasting their time".

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • The ANC said the provincial body had made it clear that the party would not counternance such behaviour from any of its members or supporters.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • And let us reflect that having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled, we have yet gained little if we counternance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of a bitter and bloody persecutions.

    The Fortune Cookie File from Karl Lehenbauer Part 3 1989

  • "The benevolent expression of your counternance encourages me to" --

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843 Various

  • "Oh, I read from your mobile counternance that you're keepin 'sumpum back, but it don't matter.

    Vicky Van Carolyn Wells 1902

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