Sentence examples for first tolerated from inspiring English sources

While local officials at first tolerated her campaign, they quickly became annoyed by her blunt talk and harsh words.

But his life traces, to a remarkable degree, the recent arc of Islamic extremism in Yemen -- at first tolerated, then confronted -- and the damage it can do, as evidenced by the killings of the American missionaries and of Mr. Omar.

count of Toulouse from 1194, who at first tolerated the heretical Cathari in Languedoc, then (1209) joined the Albigensian Crusade against them and afterward fought the crusaders to save his own dominions.

Though at first tolerated by Pope Honorius I (625 638), who responded to Sergius' appeal that the terminology needed clarification, monoenergism met strong opposition led by Sophronius, patriarch of Jerusalem, and later was definitively rejected by both the Latin and Greek churches at the third Council of Constantinople (680/681).

During that period, the faith was first tolerated, then adopted by the Roman empire; but some believers went to the opposite extreme and took up lives of poverty, prayer and self-discipline in barren, remote spots on the edge of the known world.It's not just a scholarly debating point.

Suttee became a central issue under the British Raj, which first tolerated it, then inadvertently legalized it by legislating conditions under which it could be done, and then finally, in 1829, outlawed it using the condemnation as one of its justifications for continuing British rule of India.

The disastrous error committed by the Laniel Government, and in particular M. Bidault, in first tolerating the agitation against the Sultan and then dethroning him under pressure from those responsible for it, is more and more apparent.

Sisu falls in this category, as do fēng yùn (Mandarin Chinese, "personal charm and graceful bearing") and ilunga (Tshiluba, "being ready to forgive a first time, tolerate a second time, but never a third time").

After Mao's death, Confucius was at first quietly tolerated and then, more recently, celebrated anew.

I got in contact with the band via Facebook, and at first they tolerated me but refused to acknowledge my work.

American pop fans had an especially hard lot: the biggest magazine, 16, had a distinctly autocratic flavour, with an editor who encouraged readers to address her as Miss Stavers – no first names tolerated – and reputedly flew into a fury when teenage readers turned up at her office.