Sentence examples for I cannot stomach from inspiring English sources
I'm very angry about Iraq, but what I cannot stomach is that my member of parliament thinks it's all right to spend her parliamentary salary on paying the Israeli army to bomb the Palestinians.' And that's where rational debate ends".
Berlusconi's main rival for the leadership of the next government, Pier Luigi Bersani of the centre-left Democratic Party (PD), said: "This is a form of campaigning I cannot stomach".
"What I cannot stomach at any price is the argument – I have a dim feeling that I once came across it in a Polly Toynbee column – that the point of universal benefits is to knit society together; that I and other members of the affluent bourgeoisie will be more inclined to support the welfare state if we are the beneficiaries of welfare.
Sarah Lambert London I respect anyone's right to an opinion (even if vastly different to mine) what I cannot stomach is the arrogance of religious zealots whose "holier-than-thou" attitude often manifests itself at funerals as: "It doesn't matter if X believed in Jesus... Jesus believes in X .. Giles Fraser's comments about secular funerals fall into this category.
To this day, unless the violence is clearly fantasy involving non-human characters in an alternate universe like "Lord of The Rings" or obviously farcical like "Mr. Bean," I cannot stomach it.
But they are useful as indications of what the activist base of a party can and cannot stomach.
But members of Congress who hail from highly partisan districts, or who face primary contests decided by diehard party activists, may have every reason to dig in and oppose reform.John Cornyn, a senior Republican senator from Texas who may face a primary challenge in 2014, has already told reporters that Texas primary voters "probably" cannot stomach talk of citizenship for lawbreakers.
Indeed, Tea Party Republicans would like to see Bernie Sanders win the Democratic nominee, because general election and moderate voters like myself cannot stomach voting for extreme socialist ideas he is bringing to the political table.
Political correctness has distorted society's perception of Islam, they say, giving diaspora Muslims too much breathing space among educated, socially progressive citizens who otherwise cannot stomach theocracy, misogyny or homophobia.
To such thinkers a pattern seems to have emerged in which the United States does not come to the rescue of friends of democracy and American policies like Gonzalo Sánchez de Losada in Bolivia or Fernando de la Rúa in Argentina, even as it acts to help bring down leaders it cannot stomach, like Mr. Aristide and President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela.
