Sentence examples for seemed tolerable from inspiring English sources

For as long as Abu Dhabi stood behind its beleaguered neighbour, Dubai's debts seemed tolerable.

Years back, when top bankers or oil executives earned something around 15 times the average salary of their workers, that level of disparity seemed tolerable.

Such extravagant concessions seemed tolerable when G.M. still dominated the marketplace, and wished to avoid the disruption of a labor dispute.

Local arrangements that may have seemed tolerable before the end of the century seemed less so in face of the new political order at Athens, an order that had moreover shown its military effectiveness.

He sensed that his account would end any intellectually credible idea of divine creation, and he wanted to break belief without harming the believer, particularly his wife, Emma, whom he loved devotedly and with whom he had shared, before he sat down to write, a private tragedy that seemed tolerable to her only through faith.

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The inside of the house did seem tolerable.

Any sacrifice (to save it) would seem tolerable".

But as hardships go, this one seems tolerable.

Debt levels, both corporate and personal, are rising fast; they seem tolerable only if one assumes that asset prices stay very high.

Next to the Weimar Republic, higher interest rates on credit cards — a likely outcome of the current debt bickering — seem tolerable.