Sentence examples for tolerable state from inspiring English sources

A disdain for, or a lack of interest in, all the others does not seem to me to be a civilised or even a tolerable state of affairs.

No sane person thinks this is a tolerable state of affairs.The world's governments have already pledged in the form of the Millennium Development Goals agreed at yet another summit in 2000 to halve by 2015 the proportion of people in the world who have no access to clean water.

To get a glass to a tolerable state of smudging takes a minimum of three minutes.

All of these patients were those who needed another treatment modality such as conventional RT or SBRT because they, despite previous treatment, were either experiencing progression due to treatment failure or had refused further treatment due to poor tolerable state.

Indeed, if it were so (as additivity to background demands) that there are members of the population just on the verge of thresholds for the tolerable state of internal variables, and that small exposures can shift those variables, then there should be no distinction between acute and chronic toxicity.

Nor should the prospect of continuing conflict be considered a tolerable steady state.

Rawls takes it as a constraint of realism that no tolerable world state could be stable.

Great Britain was alarmed by this expansion of France in peacetime and found it scarcely tolerable that one state should command the coastline of the Continent from Genoa to Antwerp.

The stated tolerable daily intake (TDI) in the introduction (Méndez et al. 2004) is unclear (and unattributed), but it appears to range from 0.9 to 10 mg/kg/day.

He experienced, in other words, "a state of tolerable vapidity overlaid with entertainment".

Estimated daily intakes of these metals resulting from consumption of the herbal remedies exceeded the stated recommended tolerable upper intake levels for Ni (1,000 μg/day), Fe (4,500 μg/day), and Cu (10,000 μg/day) (NRC 2001) and the provisional tolerable weekly intake for Cd (converted to a daily intake of 70 μg/day, assuming a body weight of 70 kg) (FAO/WHO 2003).