(v. t.) To encourage; to favor; to approve; to aid; to abet.
(v. t.) To make a show of; to pretend.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is a big U-turn by the BMA, which had consistently refused to countenance any of Saturday being classified that way.
(2) This marks a fresh approach following an attempt on Monday to contain the controversy with a second, more conciliatory, statement by Ivens, the paper's longserving deputy editor who is just one week into his new job, who said: "The last thing I or anyone connected with the Sunday Times would countenance would be insulting the memory of the Shoah or invoking the blood libel.
(3) Unless the Chinese plan a “space spectacular”, the future of manned spaceflight lies with privately funded adventurers prepared to participate in a cut-price programme far riskier than Nasa would countenance.
(4) In a strongly-worded letter of resignation the award-winning science fiction and fantasy author said the Guild's decision to support Google in its plans to digitise millions of books meant she could no longer countenance being a member.
(5) But Goodwin himself has said he's willing to countenance publication of the FSA's probe, as have several of his senior colleagues.
(6) She has repeatedly refused to countenance the proposal and there is scant chance of her shifting that position as she moves into an election year.
(7) Miliband quoted from a 2010 Daily Telegraph interview in which the prime minister was reported as saying he would “not countenance leaving the EU and … would never campaign for an out vote in an EU referendum.” Miliband insisted Cameron’s “renegotiation is going nowhere; he’s caught between his backbenchers …and the national interest.
(8) He said they had already postponed the move until after the US election, but would not countenance further delays.
(9) The 25-year-old has entered the final year of his contract at Loftus Road but QPR , conscious of his prolific record, will not countenance his sale this summer for less than £15m as they seek an immediate return to the Premier League.
(10) Those on the security council opposed to us say they want Saddam to disarm but will not countenance any new resolution that authorises force in the event of non-compliance.
(11) "Sir Fred's role in the collapse of the Royal Bank of Scotland , and his refusal to countenance any reduction in his grotesquely extravagant £700,000-a-year pension, convinces me it would be wholly inappropriate for him to retain the high honour of a knighthood."
(12) "I wonder, will such people be held accountable at the end of the day for the absolute refusal to countenance a precautionary approach?
(13) But he added: “Islam today includes a substantial minority of believers who countenance, if they don’t actually carry out, a degree of violence in the application of their convictions that is currently unique.” Ajaz Ashraf, writing at the Indian website First Post, blamed totalitarian regimes in the Muslim world for fostering such violence .
(14) David Moyes was “not impressed” by newspaper pictures of Van Aanholt apparently smoking such a hookah at a central Newcastle shisha lounge this summer and has made it clear that he will not countenance any repeats.
(15) On the eve of the summit, China indicated it was willing to countenance an initiative by President Barack Obama to smooth the flow of capital around the world in the hope of securing greater long-term economic stability.
(16) But Abbott has refused to countenance such changes, saying that “we have made a very clear decision that we aren’t ever going to increase the taxes on super, we aren’t ever going to increase the restrictions on super because super belongs to the people”.
(17) And I've had enough tedious arguments with libertarians to know that the one thing they won't countenance is one person infringing another's "property rights", of which the one they hold in the highest regard is the person themself.
(18) The panel specifically cautioned that adoption of such principles is not designed to countenance delays in treatment, but if necessary, should help form more rational queues for coronary revascularization.
(19) While talking the talk of harm reduction, she has never shown a willingness to countenance a decriminalisation agenda , even in a modest form.
(20) However, Levy made it clear that he would not countenance a deal with their bitter rivals, much to the annoyance of the West Ham co-owner David Gold.
Mug
Definition:
(n.) A kind of earthen or metal drinking cup, with a handle, -- usually cylindrical and without a lip.
(n.) The face or mouth.
Example Sentences:
(1) The effect of ipratropium bromide administered at two dosage levels, 40 and 80 mug, isoproterenol, 150 mug, and placebo using a metered dose inhaler was evaluated in ten adult patients with asthma in a double-blind, crossover study.
(2) The angiographic demonstration of veins was similarly improved by the 2 drugs, the effect of 60 mug.
(3) Two of them are vitamin K2-less (strains 30 and 73) and are supplemented by menadion natrium bisulfit at concentrations ranging from 0.2 to 10 mug per ml.
(4) Decreased levels of receptors for estradiol-17beta, progesterone, and prolactin were found in the tumors remaining after ovariectomy while treatment with the dose (24 mug) of RU 16117, efficient to inhibit tumor growth, has a similar inhibitory effect on the levels of estradiol-17beta and prolactin receptors.
(5) Over 90% of gram-negative bacilli, except Proteus spp., were inhibited by 3.12 mug of BB-K8 per ml.
(6) The MICs of the remaining anaerobes were 50 mug or less per ml.
(7) 6-OHDA administered intraventricularly in doses 200-500 mug caused temporary blockade of ovulation.
(8) Gamma rays and 2 low doses of bleomycin gave rise to typical reproductive death in generations 1 and 2 but 100 mug of the drug produced frequent interphase death.
(9) 5beta-Dihydrotestosterone was adminstered to mothers for 4 days from Day 12 to Day 15 of pregnancy (prenatal treatment) and to pups for 5 days of postnatal life (neonatal treatment) at daily doses of 1 mg and 200 mug, respectively.
(10) Like, I am well, well equipped for this thing.” For their one survival item each, Rogen brought a role of toilet paper, while Franco brought sunglasses and mugs continually for the camera, giving his best Spring Breakers faces while in the buff.
(11) 2, and the calf serum were 34 and 73, and 480 mug per mouse respectively.
(12) When histamine dihydrochloride (50 mg) was simultaneously injected with the hormone, the effect of small doses of oestradiol (0-0125--0-2 mug) was significantly increased.
(13) The detection limit is 0.2 mug PEBG and 0.5 mug p-OH PEBG per ml of serum or urine.
(14) TRH, 400 mug was injected prior to and after the medication.
(15) plus or minus 4.7) mug per g dry wt (p vs controls equals greater than 0.01).
(16) PGF2alpha (150 mug times 2) given on the day of surgery advanced lactogenesis 12 h and rats aborted on day 19.
(17) Injection of 1 mug carbachol into the third ventricle produced a small, variable increase in drinking.
(18) Acetylcholine (0.1-10 mug) produced a dose-dependent potentiation of oxotremorine tremor in contrast to the multiphasic effect it had on the accompanying hypothermia.
(19) Display of the whole pattern of female sexual behaviour was induced in male rats by treatment with 100 mug OB and 2 mg progesterone.
(20) Seven patients with reversible obstructive airways disease, who were unsatisfactorily relieved by conventional bronchodilating drugs, were admitted to a 1-year-long therapeutic trial with beclomethasone dipropionate aerosol, 400 mug a day.