Sentence examples for a toleration for from inspiring English sources

This is not about something being lost in translation, or about Strauss-Kahn having some French idea about women; as my colleague Adam Gopnik wrote a few months ago, when Nafissatou Diallo, a hotel housekeeper in New York, accused Strauss-Kahn of raping her, Frenchness does not include a toleration for rape.

However, one student did note as "the only flaw in his shining armor, a toleration for some Republican views," possibly a reference to his friendship with the Duke family.

But as he paid them no salary, and they were a source of revenue, he had a thief's toleration for his kind.

An honest engagement with the "other" signals both respect for them as well as a readiness to be self-critical about one's beliefs: it is a positive engagement in civil [End Page 327] life, rather than a de facto toleration for living under the same political roof with suspicious strangers.

His reign was a time of toleration for rival religions and of economic privilege for the favoured religions.

The Ottoman empire, during some of its history, was a haven of toleration for religious communities who were persecuted in Europe; but this pluralism did not extend to enabling individuals to move from one community to another, or to form new communities of choice, as would be required by a liberal ideal of personal autonomy.

He also adopted a policy of toleration for the local Canaanite religion in hopes of reducing tensions between the Israelites and local Canaanite tribes, and that policy is believed to be the main reason why he is condemned in the Hebrew Bible as a propagator of foreign cults.

The outspoken news channel is received throughout much of the Muslim world and has become one of the most popular stations in the Middle East, as well as one of the most important sources of news in a region where there is little toleration for a free press.

As a provisional solution for Germany, Erasmus was willing to grant de facto toleration to those Protestants who accepted the major and ancient beliefs of the church (which he tended to identify with the brief text of the Apostles' Creed) and to ignore the lesser issues on which agreement was impossible: better a stalemate with some toleration for dissidents than a civil war.

In order to pacify the land he made his submission to Rome and promulgated an edict of toleration for the Huguenots, the Edict of Nantes, in 1598.

In 313 an edict of toleration for all religions was issued, and from about 320 Christianity was favoured by the Roman state rather than persecuted by it.