Brooked

Fain would we have washed away the stains of travel; but he was urgent, saying that the king's word brooked no delay. ❋ Unknown (1884)

Roger glanced back, but Bradwarden’s expression brooked no debate. ❋ Salvatore, R. A., 1959- (2003)

In Egypt, where President Hosni Mubarak has brooked little dissent during his three-decade rule, about 50 people in Cairo danced and sang, "Ben Ali, tell Mubarak his plane is waiting, too." ❋ Margaret Coker (2011)

He conceded none of the diversity that exists in Islam or among its adherents ... and brooked no contradictory observations of persons who were admittedly Muslim, informed about the religion, or of a different standpoint. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Rather, the founders idolized G-d alone -- faith in Him was stamped even on our money -- and brooked no shallow, hollow substitutes, Hollywood superstars included. ❋ Rabbi Shmuley Boteach (2011)

Once unearthed, petitioned against and ordered for inquiry, the Adarsh scam led to a furore by the opposition, and a change in the state's Chief Minister a few months ago - a perfunctory damage control exercise that brooked no discussion, nor any admission of accountability to the public by the party high command. ❋ Marie-Lou Fernandes (2011)

In the latest in a series of conciliatory moves, Mr. Obama appointed Bill Daley, a Chicago political operative turned financier, as his chief of staff, and brooked a simmering trade dispute with Mexico. ❋ Elizabeth Williamson (2011)

When I thought about that, I thought about the outrage of the Catholic mother, whose possessive control of her children brooked no opposition from competitive vampires. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He also brooked no interference in his intelligence operation, flying into a rage and threatening to quit every time Coleman or Williams tried to supervise him or question his authority. ❋ Douglas Waller (2011)

Mr. Broder brooked little tolerance toward what he termed, in describing the action of 1960s militant antiwar activists, "confrontation politics, with its constant threat of violence and repression." ❋ Unknown (2011)

Her professionalism was exemplary; no request, no confidence was ever brooked by her own emotions. ❋ J.A. Pak (2011)

Most oppressive to Mr. Domscheit-Berg was Mr. Assange's autocratic management style: He brooked no criticism and didn't even want staffers discussing WikiLeaks matters among themselves, outside his presence. ❋ Gabriel Schoenfeld (2011)

He ruthlessly exploited weakness in his opponents and brooked no criticism. ❋ Not A Sheep (2009)

Now we Americans are getting a strong taste of what it must have been like to live in the totalitarian Soviet Union, fascist Italy, or nazi Germany, where the controlled press and media spouted the imperial line and brooked no protests. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Roosevelt's troops included many true believers in the cause who brooked no criticism from doubters. ❋ Amity Shlaes (2011)