How to Use toleration in a Sentence

toleration

noun

• Don’t let this toleration of our physique go by the wayside.
  — Paul Dehner Jr., Cincinnati.com, 6 Sep. 2017
• 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.
  — Robert K. Landers, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2019
• Even worse, the judgment about what language or opinions stand beyond the limits of toleration will be outsourced to activists with their own agendas.
  — Samuel Goldman, The Week, 27 July 2021
• That era of toleration coincided with one of the greatest expansions of Christianity in the past 2,000 years.
  — Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2020
• 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.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2020
• It could be seen not just in their vices, but also their virtues—particularly a rather selective toleration.
  — The Economist, 4 Nov. 2017
• Mr Lukashenko has been in office longer than any of them, thanks to a mixture of populism, socialism, repression, Russian cash and European toleration.
  — The Economist, 1 Aug. 2020
• Nothing in this century has done more to stamp out the mutual toleration of Americans than the presidency of Donald Trump.
  — Dell Cameron, WIRED, 25 Aug. 2023
• After a three-year war, the liberal principles of religious toleration and the separation of church and state triumphed.
  — The Economist, 6 Feb. 2020
• Such doubts would counsel toleration for different ways of thinking.
  — Yoram Hazony, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2018
• Insatiable profit motives have led to the toleration of bigotry and the exploitation of users across major social media platforms.
  — Alexander Heffner, WIRED, 30 June 2019
• Americans are accustomed, still, to discussing the notion of a woman in power in terms of toleration and palatability.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 12 Aug. 2020
• 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.
  — Katherine Zimmerman, National Review, 12 Oct. 2017
• 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.
  — Keith Thomas, The New York Review of Books, 8 June 2022
• 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.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2022
• In the mid 1960s, the state even announced official toleration of those who celebrated Christmas as a religious holiday.
  — Stephen Sholl, National Review, 25 Dec. 2020
• Today Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain offer variations on this muddled-middle theme, some of them formal coalitions, some looser toleration agreements.
  — The Economist, 3 Feb. 2018
• What interested him was the acceptance of some of these basic ideas: toleration, human liberty.
  — Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2020
• 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.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 23 June 2023
• So, hopefully the book is one little attempt to offer another kind of story of toleration and accommodation.
  — National Geographic, 30 Oct. 2016
• 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.
  — Star Tribune, 4 Sep. 2020
• This limited toleration, despite second-class status, was quite generous for its time.
  — Mustafa Akyol, WSJ, 12 May 2022
• 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.
  — Fred Bauer, National Review, 18 Aug. 2017
• 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.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Nov. 2021
• Officials determined the process was not meeting its goal of increasing self-reporting and decreasing toleration for violations of the honor code.
  — Michael Hill, Star Tribune, 16 Apr. 2021
• 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.
  — Yoram Hazony, WSJ, 24 Aug. 2018
• Convinced of and indebted to principles of toleration, Jews had been America’s most loyal liberal voters.
  — Elliot Kaufman, WSJ, 11 May 2022
• 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.
  — Ryan Cooper, The Week, 31 Aug. 2021
• 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.
  — Boze Herrington, The Week, 27 Jan. 2022
• 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.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2017

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