How to Use toleration in a Sentence

toleration

noun
  • Such doubts would counsel toleration for different ways of thinking.
    — Yoram Hazony, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2018
  • His mom provided her stamp of approval (or at least toleration), and Banks saw his football career take off.
    — Dane Brugler, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2026
  • It could be seen not just in their vices, but also their virtues—particularly a rather selective toleration.
    — The Economist, 4 Nov. 2017
  • 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
  • This limited toleration, despite second-class status, was quite generous for its time.
    — Mustafa Akyol, WSJ, 12 May 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • After a three-year war, the liberal principles of religious toleration and the separation of church and state triumphed.
    — The Economist, 6 Feb. 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
  • So, hopefully the book is one little attempt to offer another kind of story of toleration and accommodation.
    — National Geographic, 30 Oct. 2016
  • 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
  • The three siblings squabble but also learn about toleration and facing serious situations together as a family.
    — Marvin Glassman, Jewish Journal, 15 Feb. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • When people in families disagree about deep religious matters, the aim should be not conversion to a single view but mere toleration — toleration being the best achievable outcome.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
  • For liberal societies, built on toleration and public exchange, such an internal exodus would be nothing short of an existential crisis.
    — Frank Trentmann, The New Republic, 10 Aug. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • Convinced of and indebted to principles of toleration, Jews had been America’s most loyal liberal voters.
    — Elliot Kaufman, WSJ, 11 May 2022
  • But those values of toleration may also inadvertently feed the criminal element that killed journalist Peter de Vries.
    — Shafi Musaddique, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Sep. 2021
  • 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
  • Disraeli destroyed Peel’s reforming government only to adopt his predecessor’s policies of free trade and religious toleration as prime minister.
    — The Economist, 27 Mar. 2021
  • Cohen has made a lucrative career of this shtick, mocking ordinary Americans’ toleration of his eccentric and offensive behavior.
    — Nate Hochman, National Review, 25 June 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • But if this is not merely to replace one fever with another, there must also be an intellectual struggle to recover moderation and toleration, and a spiritual effort to find the peace no politics will ever provide.
    — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 23 Feb. 2018
  • 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
  • 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

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