Examples of toleration in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web But the agreement has replaced the Israeli–Palestinian peace process as a kind of philosopher’s stone that, according to the liberal imagination, transmutes ethno-sectarian animosity into peace and toleration. — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 19 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 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 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 What interested him was the acceptance of some of these basic ideas: toleration, human liberty. — Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2020 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 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. — John Berlau, National Review, 13 Aug. 2020 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

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