Sentence examples for a sufferance from inspiring English sources

The tide is turning; greater equality is not a sufferance but a human right.

This (alleged) satire of a Bible-belt huckster getting in-too-deep with a pair of rival churches is idiotic and unfocused, and sitting through its tedium is a sufferance more befitting of Job.

Most importantly, this method can represent a way to introduce useful bioindicators into the reactors for early diagnosis of an unbalance or a sufferance situation in the microbiologic community.

It assumes continued equality in relations between Washington and Paris that the United States has traditionally granted France as a matter of sufferance to an old friend.

Can and should they take his snubs as a necessary consequence of political warfare as he makes every effort to tack back to the middle and reconnect with those whose opinion of him vacillates between contempt on a bad day and sufferance on a good one?

The once mighty Russian church became, on sufferance, a eunuch of the state.

At the heart of the conflict is the question of how much sufferance a free society should give its crackpots to maintain its liberties.

It would result in a constant nationalist refrain that there are now first-class English MPs and second-class Scots, the English who rule and the Scots there on sufferance – a recipe for constitutional chaos.

The main issues emerged during the seminar were prejudice and the need to go beyond prejudice in order to recognize an individual's sufferance, even when it is hidden by a monstrous facade.

On the one occasion I attended a Valentine's party, the men were there under sufferance "because a friend begged me to come along last minute".

If Peter Godwin's new book about Zimbabwe is part family memoir and part bulletin from the barricades, then these two streams converge at a portent so ominous it takes your breath away: "A white in Africa is like a Jew everywhere — on sufferance, watching warily, waiting for the next great tidal swell of hostility".