How to Use toleration in a Sentence
toleration
noun
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Don’t let this toleration of our physique go by the wayside.
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Paul Dehner Jr.,
Cincinnati.com,
6 Sep. 2017
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James’s accession to the throne gave Penn increased influence at court and the prospect of some success in his long crusade for freedom of conscience and toleration.
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Robert K. Landers,
WSJ,
11 Jan. 2019
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Even worse, the judgment about what language or opinions stand beyond the limits of toleration will be outsourced to activists with their own agendas.
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Samuel Goldman,
The Week,
27 July 2021
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That era of toleration coincided with one of the greatest expansions of Christianity in the past 2,000 years.
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Walter Russell Mead,
WSJ,
21 Dec. 2020
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Yes, a warm sun, calm breeze and a little body surfing will do wonders for the mind, relaxing it and enabling the toleration of all manner of aggravations while sheltering at home.
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Los Angeles Times,
30 Apr. 2020
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It could be seen not just in their vices, but also their virtues—particularly a rather selective toleration.
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The Economist,
4 Nov. 2017
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Mr Lukashenko has been in office longer than any of them, thanks to a mixture of populism, socialism, repression, Russian cash and European toleration.
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The Economist,
1 Aug. 2020
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After a three-year war, the liberal principles of religious toleration and the separation of church and state triumphed.
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The Economist,
6 Feb. 2020
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Such doubts would counsel toleration for different ways of thinking.
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Yoram Hazony,
WSJ,
6 Apr. 2018
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Insatiable profit motives have led to the toleration of bigotry and the exploitation of users across major social media platforms.
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Alexander Heffner,
WIRED,
30 June 2019
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Americans are accustomed, still, to discussing the notion of a woman in power in terms of toleration and palatability.
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Megan Garber,
The Atlantic,
12 Aug. 2020
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The movement seeks to conduct a global insurgency, a task that requires popular support — or at least toleration — to end its isolation in the Muslim world.
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Katherine Zimmerman,
National Review,
12 Oct. 2017
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All this made Cromwell a hero in the eyes of later Protestant Nonconformists, who admired him for his hostility to an episcopal church and for his championing of religious toleration.
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Keith Thomas,
The New York Review of Books,
8 June 2022
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Meloni’s own journey from angry neo-fascist youth politics to the halls of power in Rome would be impossible without the toleration of the establishment.
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Ishaan Tharoor,
Washington Post,
26 Sep. 2022
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In the mid 1960s, the state even announced official toleration of those who celebrated Christmas as a religious holiday.
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Stephen Sholl,
National Review,
25 Dec. 2020
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Today Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain offer variations on this muddled-middle theme, some of them formal coalitions, some looser toleration agreements.
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The Economist,
3 Feb. 2018
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What interested him was the acceptance of some of these basic ideas: toleration, human liberty.
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Washington Post,
11 Dec. 2020
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Others argued that the essay’s authors downplayed or glossed over the Palestinian hand in the crisis, including the fecklessness of the Palestinian leadership and its toleration of anti-Semitic extremism.
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Ishaan Tharoor,
Washington Post,
23 June 2023
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So, hopefully the book is one little attempt to offer another kind of story of toleration and accommodation.
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National Geographic,
30 Oct. 2016
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Revelations of Trump’s derogatory remarks about military service and all veterans living and dead should be the last straw in our toleration of his presidency.
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Star Tribune,
4 Sep. 2020
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This limited toleration, despite second-class status, was quite generous for its time.
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Mustafa Akyol,
WSJ,
12 May 2022
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From the works of Roger Williams onward, the culture of toleration in the United States has required accepting that others might believe in radically different narratives of human existence.
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Fred Bauer,
National Review,
18 Aug. 2017
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Indeed, the terms for maintaining a workable relationship between church and state that emerged from the Smoot hearings are applicable to all sides today: obedience to the law, political toleration and commitment to the common good.
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The Salt Lake Tribune,
13 Nov. 2021
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Officials determined the process was not meeting its goal of increasing self-reporting and decreasing toleration for violations of the honor code.
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Michael Hill,
Star Tribune,
16 Apr. 2021
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In this way, the toleration adopted by the international system also began to filter into states themselves, eventually attaining the status of a norm in most Western countries.
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Yoram Hazony,
WSJ,
24 Aug. 2018
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Convinced of and indebted to principles of toleration, Jews had been America’s most loyal liberal voters.
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Elliot Kaufman,
WSJ,
11 May 2022
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The Taliban might agree to, say, ruling with at least a modicum of toleration and forbearance, keeping a lid on anti-American extremists, ending reprisals against government workers, allowing the few Americans left to evacuate, and so on.
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Ryan Cooper,
The Week,
31 Aug. 2021
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In such a nation, sophisticated intellectual inquiry has been abandoned for the false consolation of simplistic thinking, and toleration of difference has given way to conformity and the rage of the mob.
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Boze Herrington,
The Week,
27 Jan. 2022
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In place of brutal detentions and bigotry, the musical presents sequential lessons in toleration: a Muslim passenger, the victim of unearned suspicion, is shown to be a benevolent chef, worthy only of affectionate respect.
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Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
21 Mar. 2017
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Washington was quick to add, though, that the U.S. Constitution goes beyond mere religious toleration and explicitly grants religious freedom and full citizenship to people of every creed.
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John Berlau,
National Review,
13 Aug. 2020
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