At 104.7 percent of its 2012 average, total industrial production in February was 0.3 percent above its level of a year earlier. Capacity utilization for the industrial sector declined 0.1 percentage point in February to 75.4 percent, a rate that is 4.5 percentage points below its long-run (1972â2016) average.
Learner's definition of COUNTENANCE. [+ object] formal. : to accept, support, or approve of (something) The city would not countenance [=permit] a rock concert in the park. The leader did not officially countenance [=encourage] negotiations with the rebels.
Merriam-Webster 's definition of revenant is one that returns after death or a long absence.. In that the subject returns from death, one can easily see an association of the term with the undead in fantasy and horror fiction.On the other hand, unlike zombies, the revenant's long absence does imply a certain anachronism in its eventual return. In Peter Straub 's Ghost Story, the female ghost is a revenant as declared by the protagonist. 2  The revenant manifests itself throughout time and space at will and as different personalities to fulfill its mission of vengeance.