Sentence examples for had long tolerated from inspiring English sources

Mexicans had long tolerated the practice of illicit enrichment in public office.

With no organized sanitation for much of the 20th century, rural residents had long tolerated the netherworld cascade of holler dumps and the post-outhouse "straight-pipe" way of sanitation from mobile homes and simple cottages -- sewage primitively piped straight out into the Great Outdoors.

Like Bill Gates telling you about how he was going to put "a computer on every desk" back in 1987, we had long tolerated his Vulcan frothings by writing him off as a dork hobbyist.

On a positive note, international pressure forced M23 to vacate Goma after just a few weeks, and the United States and Britain, which had long tolerated Rwanda's denials that it was contributing to the unrest, cut military aid to the country as a result of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

The Dutch have long tolerated the coffee shops, although the sale of marijuana remains technically illegal.

Regulators have long tolerated immense amounts of Wall Street business taking place within insured subsidiaries.

State law controls board governance, and Delaware has long tolerated plurality voting.

They often work in a culture that has long tolerated misogynistic behavior.

It has long tolerated a system that allows unlimited gifts to political parties in the form of soft money.

To the east, the Pakistani military and intelligence services have long tolerated and sometimes directed militants moving into Indian Kashmir.

Shareholders have long tolerated Rupert Murdoch's passion for newspapers, which are less profitable than other parts of the empire.