Sentence examples for edge of tolerance from inspiring English sources

"The main staircase, where stairs and landings are all cantilevered off a slim 400mm-thick central wall," wrote Elaine Knutt, "is a key example of structure working at the edge of tolerance.

The art that the curator and director Carolyn deLisser regularly selects straddles that edge of tolerance between the acceptable content in art as seen by the masses, and the visionary imagery of the fine artist.

In contrast, when the environmental change translates to enhanced stress levels at the edge of tolerance ranges, selection is for enhanced tolerance, that is, phenotypic buffering.

"It's close to the edge of my tolerance," he said.

"Grasses on golf courses are maintained at the very edge of their tolerance," he said.

I've seen plenty of septuagenarians, and older, with a wicked gleam in their eye manipulate an adult child for attention or just for devilment, pushing them to the edge of their tolerance and beyond the limits of their sense of humour.

It is possible to prove (by multiplying brackets, but I am already so far over the edge of reader tolerance for maths here that I will leave that as an exercise for the keen) that the exact answer is the square of the previous - that is, e².

Have I, at last, found the edge of Republican tolerance for slur?" And then, God bless her pig-headedness, she stays the course.

As privacy guardians squirm and critics liken pat-downs to groping and full-body scans to virtual strip searches, "we are beginning to approach the edge of passenger tolerance," Jenkins said.

In addition, pressure from natural selection is especially intense, as peripheral isolated populations exist at the outer edges of ecological tolerance.

Although L. rigidus exhibits considerable phenotypic plasticity, the Fv /Fm values suggest that this species is near the edge of its physiological tolerance, and as such this species is especially vulnerable to rapid climate change.