Verizon is not going to countenance the big blow to its U.S. market share without a response.
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After all, it was the developing world's refusal to countenance cuts that led America to turn its back on Kyoto in the first place.
The Serbs refuse to countenance any more power going to Sarajevo and many Croats want their own entity, whereas most Bosniaks would like to see a more centralised state.
But were the Bank of Japan even to countenance that, the result would be to drive the yen down to a politically unacceptable level.
But since that is impossible, given that Republicans refuse to countenance any tax increases and Democrats refuse to cut any spending on entitlements, the best short-term remedy would be to extend the Bush tax cuts for another three years.
Despite this, though, he has refused to countenance women priests, delivering a fierce rebuke last year to Catholics who challenged the Church's teaching.
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That is the task before them: to countenance the land of the dead like Orpheus, and to carry on in the land of the living.
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We remain the most charitable people on earth, but it's quite simply not in our DNA to countenance the actions of Suleman, a woman who chose to be artificially inseminated, and who chose to practice what is called "assisted reproductive technology" in order to put what she presumed to be six more children on this earth that she can't care for economically.
With Iraq demanding an end to sanctions, and America, its bombers at the ready, refusing to countenance any such thing, there could indeed be sleepless nights to come.
But his refusal to countenance structural reform of any sort would surely make it harder for him to persuade Mrs Merkel to tolerate more inflation or consider some form of debt mutualisation.
Although many economists believe the Germans are wrong-headed in refusing to countenance substantial purchases of government debt by the ECB, there is some logic to the prohibition.
But Mr Hollande will have to countenance reform all the same, because he needs a credible medium-term plan to pay for welfare spending without resorting to borrowing.
Yet Cardinal O'Malley's refusal to countenance the college's support for Prime Minister Kenny may be a sign that things are about to change.
Still, some on the federal bench refuse to countenance such tactics in their more brazen variations.
He has a reputation for honesty and an unbending refusal to countenance corruption or pork-barrel politics.
But the Turkish government is reluctant to countenance a trial of Mr Ocalan outside Turkey.
It refused to countenance a default by Greece, or even debt restructuring, for fear of market contagion.
There is a policy vacuum in Britain with austerity the only policy that its Government seems able to countenance.
The German government was not prepared to countenance that ahead of an election.
He would now be prepared to countenance a less-than-final agreement that would leave Jerusalem in abeyance for the time being.
In a few unforgettable scenes, he nails the image of a guy who hardly dared to countenance escape, and never left.
So while it would be impossible for this writer to disagree with his thesis, his solution is a difficult to countenance.
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No European policymaker seems willing to countenance a serious haircut on Greek debt yet, for fear that it undermines confidence elsewhere.
But nor can he afford to be seen to countenance one set of rules for the rich and another for the rest.
During the row over health care, the right demanded smaller deficits but refused to countenance any cuts in medical spending on the elderly.
America is now prepared to countenance regulation of systemically important ones.
Europe's earlier refusal to countenance default gave some lucky bondholders a year in which they could get repaid in full with loans granted by official creditors.
Taking nothing away from the fun that is college, the idea that advanced education is anything more than a high-priced union card is hard to countenance.
But the Bank could still prevent the yen from rising by printing money, something the Bank of Japan's governor, Masaru Hayami, has steadfastly refused to countenance.
So far, however, Mark Fisher, the arts minister, is refusing to countenance the book leaving the British Library for good he says more people can see it there.
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