Toleration in a sentence

For the time being, moderates who hoped to find a way of compromise and to repress the underlying issue of slavery itself – its toleration or non-toleration by a great free Christian state – were overwhelmingly in the majority.

He frankly disbelieved in toleration; "that state," he said, "could never be in safety where there was a toleration of two religions.

All the overdoses we see today is a result of decades of toleration of drug usage.

Third, Muslim leaders, especially theological leaders, need to re-educate their clerics on the need to promote moderation, toleration, and coexistence.

His toleration of genocide is unforgiveable; his atavistic American instinct to offer a military response to any challenge is more of the arrogant Cold-War-era stance that was so much a part of his earlier political life.

At the same time, like Russian state propaganda, it portrayed China as a savior while silencing the disastrous situation at home: shortages, lack of functioning infrastructure, toleration of wet markets, even blatant racism.

In reality there appears to have been considerable toleration for the work of the company.

Labour MPs were willing to give up their careers to fight against antisemitism and the toleration of totalitarian ideas and regimes.

Tonight: Toleration and appreciation on your part opens more doors.

Despite the push from the reform-seeking part of the political spectrum, a toleration gene in hard-liners is not much in evidence.

If you read Professor Jonathan Israëls book “The Dutch Republic”, you will see that fight was to preserve Dutch ways of doing things like religious toleration, “Polder” consensus-seeking “in place of Strife” (a Labour quote) at every occasion; etcetera.

We, the faculty and staff, have an obligation to create an academic environment of inclusion and toleration where we all engage in the objective search for truth.

Broad toleration for other religions made little sense to Europeans forged in the heat of religious conflict, while the lifestyle and pretensions Jahangir afforded himself meant that it was difficult to see him as a devout Muslim.

Burke wrote that he wanted to represent the whole Whig party "as tolerating, and by a toleration, countenancing those proceedings" so that he could "stimulate them to a public declaration of what every one of their acquaintance privately knows to be.

But toleration was practiced for the convenience of the city.

Cadwallader, 1923, p. 83. Part of the evidence showed that he was in favour of toleration of religious dissent.

Diocletian's persecution of Christians was repudiated and changed to a policy of toleration and then favoritism.

Disraeli who had attended the Protectionists dinner at the Merchant Taylors Hall, joined Bentinck in speaking and voting for the bill, although his own speech was a standard one of toleration.

Finally, she was forced to grant them some toleration by allowing them to worship privately.

Finkelman, p 675 Description The Maryland Toleration Act was an act of tolerance, allowing specific religious groups to practice their religion without being punished, but retaining the ability to revoke that right at any time.