Peter Townsend, because the Church of England would not countenance it.
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And May will almost certainly not countenance it as an alternative to her own negotiations.
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This would be so obviously counter-productive that only a seriously dysfunctional government could countenance it.
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It is a simple and remarkably durable fact of our current politics, and yet, so many people seem unable to countenance it.
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"My sense is an understanding that she is going to explain in her opening statement she gets it that this is now illegal and she would therefore never countenance it, and explain perhaps the context at the time," he said.
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Having spent much of the early years all but ignored - he once drove 1,000 miles (1,600 km) to speak in front of four people - Akesson is even being talked about as possible future prime minister, though for now no other party would countenance it.
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So unless some kind of transitionary period can be negotiated by the UK government — and that's starting to look like more of a possibility at this point, with key Brexit ministers at least now willing to countenance it — we have only the prospect of deepening business uncertainty in the short term.
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The Baháʼí Faith venerates Mary as the mother of Jesus. The Kitáb-i-Íqán, the primary theological work of the Baháʼí religion, describes Mary as "that most beauteous countenance," and "that veiled and immortal Countenance." It claims that Jesus was "conceived of the Holy Ghost."The Kitáb-i-Íqán Part One.
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The vetoists were disappointed at the defeat of the bill of 1813. It then occurred to them that if they could get the Holy See in any way to countenance it, the mark of schism attached to it by the Irish bishops would no longer stain it. They therefore represented to Propaganda the great benefit which the Catholic religion would derive from Emancipation, and the harmlessness of the veto conditions on which the Government had offered it. Milner was represented to the secretary of Propaganda, Mgr.
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Cannan offered to resign in 1942 so that his post could be given to a regular officer, but General Sir Thomas Blamey refused to countenance it, and Cannan remained Quartermaster General until 31 December 1945. However, in the 1942 reorganisation, the Military Board was abolished and Cannan now reported to the Lieutenant General Administration, Lieutenant General Henry Wynter, instead. Cannan volunteered for the Second Australian Imperial Force and was allotted the serial number VX89075 on 2 September 1942. As Quartermaster General, Cannan was responsible for the Australian Army's supply, transport and engineering services throughout Australia and the South West Pacific Area.
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Lauridsen, Nazism and the Radical Right, p. 172 At this time however Steidle still maintained an ambiguous attitude towards the possibility of Anschluss despite his membership of the Austrian nationalist Christian Social Party. He also served as president of the Österreichischer Alpenverein for a time.Lauridsen, Nazism and the Radical Right, p. 127 As leader of the Heimwehr he attempted to unite the movement behind an agreed platform of corporatist fascism in 1930 by writing the so-called 'Korneuburger Oath'.R.J.B. Bosworth, The Oxford Handbook of Fascism, Oxford University Press, 2009, p. 439 However agreement could not be reached with the regional leaders and indeed the oath only threw divisions into an even sharper focus as some regions refused to countenance it.
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Rundstedt believed even at this stage that an effective defensive line could only be established on the Rhine, but this would have meant giving up large areas of German territory, and Hitler would not countenance it. He insisted that a stand be made on the West Wall (known to the Allies as the Siegfried Line), a defensive system built along Germany's western frontiers in 1938–40, but partly dismantled in 1943–44 to provide materials for the Atlantic Wall. Model told OKW that this would require 25 divisions of fresh troops, but these were no longer to be had. Instead the line was held by patched-up divisions escaping from the debacle in France, and Volksgrenadier divisions made up from transferred Navy and Air Force personnel, older men and teenagers: these units were fit for static defence, but not much else.
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