Sentence examples for ideal of tolerance from inspiring English sources

This Henriade is spoiled by its pedantic imitation of Virgil's Aeneid, but his contemporaries saw only the generous ideal of tolerance that inspired the poem.

But Lewis's own examples show that civic harmony in Umayyad Spain was more the result of shrewd statecraft and common sense than of some vague and anachronistic ideal of "tolerance".

Yet the engine of this novel is not the usual comic exaggeration; it is sadness for the ideal that has been lost in Kashmir and in so many other parts of the Muslim world, the ideal of tolerance and secular pluralism.

The American creed is not based on race, ethnicity or religion, but on a shared ideal of tolerance and freedom in the pursuit of happiness.

It has gone farther than any other Muslim nation in reclaiming Islam's ideals of tolerance.

How does the Communist Party's thuggishness square with Olympic ideals of tolerance and human dignity?

Monty Python could take it as a figure of fun because Enlightenment ideals of tolerance and decency make us feel safe from it.

It added: "War, terrorism and the pressures of globalization are eroding democratic values, fraying alliances and challenging the ideals of tolerance and charity".

As the city grew into a mecca of leftwing politics and hippie self-expression in the 1960s and 70s, the ideals of tolerance and inclusion became central to the civic self-image.

But I believe that its most important effect will be felt in Haiti, as more Haitians travel between the two countries and begin to bring back to the island the democratic ideals of tolerance, compromise and justice.

In the Middle East and across Asia, in Russia and Eastern Europe, even in Britain and the United States, war, terrorism and the pressures of globalization are eroding democratic values, fraying alliances and challenging the ideals of tolerance and charity.