Sentence examples for intolerable one from inspiring English sources

'Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.' The opening of Common Sense can be read as a gloss on Locke's Second Treatise, without the references to God.

Lincoln's coin may be widely regarded as an irritant but hardly an intolerable one.

Finally, when the pangs of indecision had become nearly intolerable, one wise physician friend said, 'What you need is a doctor.' He was telling me to forget the information I already had and the information I was receiving from many quarters, and to seek instead a person who would dominate, who would tell me what to do".

ON HIS BIRTHDAY (FEBRUARY 9), QUOTE THOMAS PAINE, WHO FORESAW 250 YEARS AGO JUST WHERE THE UNITED STATES COULD GO WRONG: "Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one".

The editors say that debate "will be over the difference between a largely intolerable outcome and a completely intolerable one".

"Don't you see that life in this house is intolerable?" one of them asks, and we do.

The lack of openness is intolerable for one of the world's most influential organizations.

There was "something intolerable," wrote one guest quoted by Millgate, about Hardy being forced "to live day & night with the absurd, inconsequent, huffy, rambling old lady".

In her book, whose title comes from her stepfather's poem "Epilogue," Lowell takes stock of the physical and emotional wounds that have shaped her: "It would be intolerable if one's nerve endings and memory were in tune".

Sodexo said it is "intolerable that one of our colleagues lost his life in such tragic and unjust circumstances, and for a cause which is so contrary to our values".

But "if palliative care and painkillers are ineffective, if all treatment or therapy has failed, if there is unanimous agreement that the situation has become intolerable, then one can envisage euthanasia," Dr. Didier Sicard, the committee's head, said.