Sentence examples for bastions of tolerance from inspiring English sources

CENTRAL ASIA's republics are no bastions of tolerance.

To many people living in these countries, which they may see as bastions of tolerance and progressive politics, the rise of rightwing parties, and in some countries the far-right, has been unsettling.

A censorious streak runs stubbornly through this city that regards itself as a bastion of tolerance.

Acknowledging the fact that Nevada prides itself as being a bastion of tolerance, they also all seemed to feel that the ruling was long overdue.

While Indonesia has made great strides in consolidating a stable, democratic government after five decades of authoritarian rule, the country is by no means a bastion of tolerance.

Kurdistan, long a bastion of tolerance and a haven for the aggrieved and oppressed of all stripes, has lately become a sanctuary for Sunnis.

The political union that politicians (and this newspaper) have spent two years defending as a bastion of tolerance would be endangered.

In November Barack Obama will return to Indonesia, his childhood home and the country that has more Muslims than any other, to pay his respects to a flourishing democracy and bastion of tolerance.

They are already making life a misery complete with floggings and hand-choppings for Malians under thand-choppings forplaces as TiMalians once a bastion of tolerance fabled for its munder marvellous shrines and ancientheiruswaypts.

With the restriction on the intake of refugees in late 2015, the announcement that up to 80,000 asylum seekers could be returned to their countries of origin, and now the threat of street violence, the image of the country as a bastion of tolerance and progressive politics has been ruined.

The People's Party won additional seats in Parliament, and analysts said the vote portended more of the polarization that had accompanied its rise to power, straining Switzerland's tradition of consensus politics and tarnishing its image abroad as a bastion of tolerance.