Sentence examples for tolerably fair from inspiring English sources

In New Orleans, he wrote to Tourgée, "people of tolerably fair complexion, even if unmistakably colored, enjoy here a large degree of immunity from the accursed prejudice".

Iranians can elect, in a tolerably fair way, the representatives they want; the question is how much authority and freedom their system then allows these representatives.

But our problem is that, among tolerably reasonable but far from perfectly rational citizens, pluralism of religious belief is inescapable.

The Middle East and north Africa region the centrepiece of Mr Bush's efforts to promote freedom showed little measurable improvement over the previous year.More widely, the number of "electoral democracies" (those with tolerably free and fair elections) dropped by two, to 119 (thanks to four demotions and two promotions).

Not eliminate it; just keep it down to a tolerably low level.

Then there is a "cumbersome" younger brother, Thomas, who like Cassandra herself is "tolerably bright", and Stephen the lodger, the son of their former maid, who is besotted with Cassandra and is described as "fair and noble-looking but his expression is just a fraction daft".

Lunch went tolerably well.

Fairly noisy, but tolerably so.

I am doing tolerably well here.

But some things are becoming tolerably clear.

Still, Ms. Dougherty seems tolerably flexible.