Sentence examples for much sufferance from inspiring English sources

At the heart of the conflict is the question of how much sufferance a free society should give its crackpots to maintain its liberties.

(Brantley) 'DENIAL' An engrossing and timely legal drama about a Holocaust denier being defended by a Jewish lawyer, this play examines the moral and ethical dilemma inherent in the First Amendment and asks how much sufferance can a free society give its crackpots and maintain its individual liberties (2 30).

When Oliver Cromwell allowed us back in, we were very much here on sufferance.

Regarded, nevertheless, as a glorified squatter, Carausius was recognised only under official sufferance – and, with his passing, his rule was shrugged off in contemporary records as a triviality, just one of around 50 similar territorial uprisings.

Reading, too, is done on sufferance.

He will probably survive these tests, but on sufferance.

Migrants are allowed into big cities on sufferance.

Mary Roy and her children lived on their relatives' sufferance.

For much of the 1970's and into the 80's, the bulk of his commercial success behind him, Masekela lived in Africa, relying on the sufferance of dictators in Guinea and Zaire, staying just safe of the South African regime in Botswana.

The once mighty Russian church became, on sufferance, a eunuch of the state.

He explained, "In adult literary fiction, stories are there on sufferance.