But there has been no formal transfer of security control, and when the Palestinian parliament convened on September 10th in the neighbouring city of el-Bireh, it was at Israel's sufferance.For the Palestinians, their new parliamentary activism is primarily a response to seething dissension over corruption and maladministration at the top of the Palestinian Authority.
After all, striking for sufferance is heroic, enduring torture for sex, less so.
They exist on the sufferance of larger states on whom they depend for defence and for transport links.
It would result in a constant nationalist refrain that there are now first-class English MPs and second-class Scots, the English who rule and the Scots there on sufferance – a recipe for constitutional chaos.
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.
For the next few months Cameron will be operating largely at the sufferance of the Brexit wing of his party.
Still, this is far from a great day for the men and women of the F.B.I., who now know that they serve at the sufferance of unethical men who think that telling the truth amounts to "sanctimony".
In few businesses was the role of govt. as crucial as in radio, for not only were the very licenses that allowed the use of the airways granted, and periodically renewed, only at the sufferance of the F.C.C. but the commission possessed virtually unchallengeable authority over every aspect of a station's operations.
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 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".
