Sentence examples for sufferance of from inspiring English sources

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

Like Benazir Bhutto, Sharif ruled with the sufferance of the military and the intelligence apparatus.

They exist on the sufferance of larger states on whom they depend for defence and for transport links.

For the next few months Cameron will be operating largely at the sufferance of the Brexit wing of his party.

"Section 8 subsidies are not free money, they exist at the sufferance of the citizens and those who pay taxes," Justice Castel said.

With their mystique of power gone, Asia's British masters depended on what Bayly and Harper term the "temporary sufferance of Asians".

It assumes continued equality in relations between Washington and Paris that the United States has traditionally granted France as a matter of sufferance to an old friend.

The document points out the "patient sufferance" not of "men" or "mankind," but of American women, who were oppressed by an undemocratic government that failed to allow them to possess property rights, speak in public, file for divorce, manage their own wages and attend college.

Terrified: because she knew more than most of them and looked quite fierce (and had little sufferance for fools); charmed: because she had lashings of wit and told a good story.

It marked an end of "patient sufferance" under tyranny, the end of "allegiance to the British Crown" and an affirmation of natural rights that this nation still embodies.

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