Sentence examples for act of intolerance from inspiring English sources

A year in which racism and xenophobia have marred European soccer has brought another brazen act of intolerance.

At the Vatican, Pope John Paul II called the killings a "tragic act of intolerance" and offered prayers for the victims' families.

Over the last two years we have seen 400,000 immigrants [arrive in Sicily], and we have never had an act of intolerance in Palermo.

The play, which begins previews on Tuesday at the Public Theater, imagines a troubled moment in the American civil rights movement, when an act of intolerance leads to riots and hate crimes in Birmingham, Ala., in 1963.

Faith may have inspired the Crusaders, but not for long, Runciman said: "High ideals were besmirched by cruelty and greed, enterprise and endurance by a blind and narrow self-righteousness; and the Holy War itself was nothing more than a long act of intolerance in the name of God".

He said, "The player should be severely punished for this painful, horrible act of intolerance".

Mr. Meyer disavowed such conduct and said Federalist Society chapters had confronted similar acts of intolerance for years.

Paul Kokoski Hamilton, Ontario, Nov. 15, 2008 • To the Editor: Re "Theater Director Resigns Amid Ire-Rights Ire" (Arts pages, Nov. 13): The events that forced the resignation of Scott Eckern as artistic director of the California Musical Theater were self-defeating acts of intolerance.

While some of the side issues have drawn the most publicity, the meeting's primary problem is that all participants are trying to eliminate any mention of their own acts of intolerance, especially cases that could eventually force them to make payments to those wronged.

In December they violently broke up a trade-union rally.Nahda has been accused of pandering to other groups of fringe Islamist extremists, who have gone out of their way, among other acts of intolerance, to attack ancient shrines long venerated by Tunisians, deeming them to be idolatrous.

How, she added, could dissenting voices contest "the application of religious law, which is a law they want and that they have, wrongfully, attributed to God?" Many of those secular figures point to acts of intolerance; last week, the police used tear gas to disperse thousands protesting an animated film they deemed blasphemous.