Sentence examples for tolerance in which from inspiring English sources

Islamic Spain has been hailed for its "convivencia" -- its spirit of tolerance in which Jews, Christians and Muslims, created a premodern renaissance.

This material strongly indicates that, as she writes, "Americans of all backgrounds created a zone of tolerance in which birth control was routinely made, sold, bought and used".

Substance dependence likely leads to tolerance, in which markedly increased amounts of a drug (or other addictive substance) must be taken to achieve the same effect.

Such an annealing can lead to an extended radiation tolerance in which the output current of the system is proportional to the gamma-ray intensity.

But the treaty's implementation fell just days after a milestone of a different sort: a referendum in Switzerland, long famous for religious tolerance, in which 57.5percentt of voters chose to ban the nation's Muslims from building minarets.

Persistence is a special case of tolerance in which a subpopulation of persister cells can survive the antibiotic treatment much better than the majority of the population, as reflected in the biphasic killing curve.

Two events may occur to explain this fact: one is "cross-tolerance", in which one type of stress confers partial protection against other stresses (Causton et al. 2001; Koedritha et al. 2008; Zakrzewska et al. 2011); the other event is the physical effect of glucose protecting cell membranes from the harmful effects of temperature.

Proteins of the Bcl-2 family are crucial for the induction of cross-presentation initiated cell death because in a model of self-tolerance in which OVA was expressed selectively in pancreatic -cells, overexpression of Bcl-2 or loss of Bim prevented deletion of CD8+ OVA-reactive T cells, implicating a role of both in mediating cross-tolerance.

Self-reacting clones that escape central tolerance are kept in check by a variety of peripheral tolerance mechanisms, in which the dominant tolerance exerted by CD4+CD25+ regulatory T (Treg) cells plays an important role.

Some doctors use the oral glucose tolerance test, in which blood samples are taken after the patient drinks a special glucose solution.

This is a glucose tolerance test, in which the patient is given a fasting blood sugar test, drinks a glucose solution and then has another blood sugar test two hours later.