How To Use Discountenance In A Sentence
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Some international observers were refused entry and their reports discountenanced by our electoral authorities, yet Nigerians went to Ghana to monitor elections!
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Sir Hugh was discountenanced from any further inquiry.
Camilla
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Toward the preservation of your Government and the permanency of your present happy state, it is requisite not only that you steadily discountenance irregular oppositions to its acknowledged authority, but also that you resist with care the spirit of innovation upon its principles, however specious the pretexts.
Think Progress » Wall Street Republicans Form ‘Action Tank’ To Push Corporate Agenda
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It is a duty society owes to itself to discountenance everything which tends to vitiate public taste.
A Renegade History of the United States
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I was discountenanced, feeling a slow and steady anger rising, a free-floating anger, aimed at no one, no thing as yet.
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It is a duty society owes to itself to discountenance everything which tends to vitiate public taste.
A Renegade History of the United States
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Spiritual insight is blinded by carnal desire; conduct is influenced by unbridled license; bigotry and hatred are fostered by his policy of intoleration; and his followers are enslaved by a tyranny that blights the reason, because it discountenances inquiry, and places an insurmountable barrier in the way of all human progress.
Mohammed, The Prophet of Islam
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The republic soon discountenanced its few friends
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any measure tending to fuse invalids into a class with special privileges should be discountenanced
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As Fowler said: “It is an idiom that should be not discountenanced, but used when it comes natural.”
2008 April « Motivated Grammar
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His second duty is to see that nothing is said in the news items or editorials which may discountenance any claims or announcements made by his advertisers, discredit their standing or good faith, or expose any weakness or deception in any business venture that is or may become a valuable advertiser.
Boing Boing
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Where a man in any station had given satisfactory evidence of his fitness for it, a new President would be restrained from attempting a change in favor of a person more agreeable to him, by the apprehension that a discountenance of the Senate might frustrate the attempt, and bring some degree of discredit upon himself.
Balkinization
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(‘Mrs’ was a word somewhat discountenanced by the Party — you were supposed to call everyone ‘comrade’ — but with some women one used it instinctively.)
Nineteen Eighty-four
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But in the second place, admitting that the apostle's design here is to discountenance this practice, not only as weak and illaudable, but also as sinful and disallowable; yet I affirm, that he accounted it not sinful from the very nature of the action, but only the irregularity of the circumstance; that they went to law upon every slight occasion, before unbelievers, in verse 1.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII.
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It was beset by the sort of problems evident in one British official's view of its purpose: to discountenance the use for political purposes of methods which all civilised opinion must condemn.
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The few independent nobles and knights who attended Louis, most of whom had only received from him frowns or discountenance, unappalled by the display of infinitely superior force, and the certainty of destruction in case they came to blows, hastened to array themselves around Dunois, and, led by him, to press towards the head of the table where the contending Princes were seated.
Quentin Durward
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But I was conscious that, in my situation, not to advance was in some Degree to recede, and being naturally unwilling to think that the principle of decay lay in myself, I was at least desirous to know of a certainty, whether the degree of discountenance which I had incurred, was now owing to an ill-managed story, or an ill-chosen subject.
The Abbot
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There are those who think that if all unfair practices were discountenanced it would add very much to the enjoyment of a country life.
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Why didn't it probe, even if only to discountenance the allegations?
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My own hands however shall be guiltless of blood, and I shall discountenance it so far as my authority extends, except under circumstances of aggression or in self defence ’.
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I believe that employers of labor will soon come generally to recognize the insidious effect of the poison upon their employees, and that ultimately they will discountenance its use - in the same way that they have discountenanced the use of alcohol.
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First, it shows his consciousness that his "position" as a Senator of the United States demanded a prompt discountenance and denunciation of the treasonable scheme.
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When he yawned, took a book up, said he was hungry or simply went away, she was not discountenanced.
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He proceeded to Ireland, where his ambitious schemes were distrusted and discountenanced by Elizabeth, then escaped to Spain, having been in treasonable correspondence with Philip II.
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He predicted Jones would “discountenance the movement under the impression that the United States will have the right, and will be bound to remove the Mexican military from east of the Rio Grande after annexation.”
A Country of Vast Designs
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The master discountenanced smoking and drinking by the students.
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They were not discountenanced by the critical argument that a storyteller or a poet who has something to say does not need an artist to help him say it.
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With her composure, she survived every atempt to discountenance her.
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The next day Wickliffe dashed off another letter to Polk with the news, through Sherman, that Jones had indeed discountenanced the plan.
A Country of Vast Designs
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He has stationed himself there merely to watch and discountenance her.
Camilla
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Future alliances were indeed often formed by the young people, nor was this discountenanced by their parents, provided that the lovers waited until the period when the majority of the bridegroom should permit them to marry.
Count Robert of Paris
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That is why a daring mission 63 years ago today - with strength and numbers that might have caused it to be discountenanced as a stunt - had such a powerful effect not only on Americans but also the Japanese leaders and people.
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In this case, the express line of his duty would have been his vindication, and instead, perhaps of discountenance and blame, he would have had praise and honour from his superior.
Castle Dangerous
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A statement said the striking workers should discountenance the sack threat issued by the state government.
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Therefore she discountenanced his going down to Bombay to get married.
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Thus the ‘primary object’ of the organization would be ‘to discountenance and rebuke by moral and social influences, all disloyalty to the Federal Government.’
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The party reiterated its stand that it "will continue to discountenance all illegal moves by a lame-duck Presidency and its sidekicks.
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They were ‘a community which discountenances the development of a just society predicated on principles of equality and fairness’, he said.
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The sources of the free men's anger converged in 1676 when Governor William Berkeley, fearing the outbreak of Indian war, discountenanced Bacon's plans to lead a frontier army against the Indians and refused him a commission.
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In return, it was only in the nature of things that larger operations other than the main attack already planned should be discountenanced.
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It holds that pure and honest legislators cannot spring from filth and trickery, and in subservience to this view, discountenances the unfair conduction of general elections, and favors the extension, by law, of the "Australian ballot" to the primary election of all political parties.
The Principles of the Republican Party: A Rare Unpublished Jack London Essay
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[Sidenote: Jefferson's principles] [Sidenote: Third term discountenanced]
A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three)
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As he is surely aware, the Code of Canon Law discountenances retroactive laws, especially when they impose burdens rather than grant favors.
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During the whole time consumed in the slow growth of this family tree, the house of Smallweed, always early to go out and late to marry, has strengthened itself in its practical character, has discarded all amusements, discountenanced all story – books, fairy – tales, fictions, and fables, and banished all levities whatsoever.
Bleak House
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The next day Wickliffe dashed off another letter to Polk with the news, through Sherman, that Jones had indeed discountenanced the plan.
A Country of Vast Designs