Sentence examples for sufferance and from inspiring English sources

The rest return under sufferance and, like Rory McIlroy, cannot wait to scuttle back to warmer climes.

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

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.

Two decades have passed since the downfall of most of the regimes where atheism was state policy and religion existed only on sufferance; and over that time, liberal democracy has advanced.

In this tight-buttoned village, play, irony, satire and parody – the stock-in-trade of Viz, as well as more sophisticated wits – can survive only on sufferance and under suspicion.

By contrast with Cardinal John J. O'Connor, his ubiquitous and media-savvy predecessor, Cardinal Egan largely shunned politics and reporters, viewed the media with tight-lipped sufferance and preferred to slip now and again under the cover of his relative anonymity into an orchestra seat on the aisle at the Met.

"It was political music and had a positive message, with this talk of the world being in turmoil, sufferance, revolution and fighting for justice.

Although pain is one and of the more common and relevant symptoms in Palliative Care, the origin of patient's sufferance transcends pain and the influence of other physical, social, psycho-emotional and spiritual factors that requires adequate management can be elicited.

"Do not entertain so weak an imagination as that your registers and your bonds, your affidavits and your sufferances, your cockets and your clearances, are what form the great securities of your commerce".

Midway through the play, after most of the other characters have confided their private thoughts to the audience, she turns to us and says, "I have not hitherto been allotted an inner voice, my role a patient and not unamused sufferance of the predilections and preoccupations of men.

They are publicly defined by their mistakes, stripped of emotional acceptance, and living in shared quarters of mutual sufferance.