Sentence examples for our sufferance from inspiring English sources

Since when do those who live here at our sufferance get to rewrite our laws?

"The assumption is that Christianity is the norm for America," said Phil Baum, executive director of the American Jewish Congress, "and that Jews and other minorities are here essentially as guests at the sufferance of our hosts, in a secondary position, which is an uncomfortable situation to be in".

As carnitine reduces the intracellular concentration of typical markers of cell sufferance and/or apoptosis, our data strongly suggest that the drug exerts a negative control on the progression of apoptotic death at retinal cell level.

Nothing in the Constitution requires admission or sufferance of aliens hostile to our scheme of government".

Mr. Berkoff suddenly morphs into a vile creature, hunched, with a rubbery tongue that is wont to protrude, and a wheedling, plaintive voice that begins a negotiation for a pound of flesh: Signor Antonio, many a time and oft In the rialto you have rated me About my moneys and my usances; Still I have borne it with a patient shrug For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.

Restricted payments clearly imply that when we receive money it is not ours but theirs, and is shared only on sufferance and condition.

Our entire campaign has been based on persuading the Republican grass roots to take you on sufferance as the man who can create jobs and beat Obama.

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.