Sentence examples for tolerance of war from inspiring English sources

But he supports his highly revisionary definition by the puzzling claim that to define terrorism as violence meant to intimidate is to imply that terrorism is particularly abhorrent and thereby "in effect … invite a kind of prima facie approval or tolerance of war" (Honderich 2006: 93).

A heightened tolerance of war, a double-standard in relation to the legitimacy of violence (alright if we inflict it on others but not alright if they inflict it on us), even a blindness to both the violence of poverty at home and the violence of empire abroad: all these seem to be inevitable features of the culture of empire.

The people do not understand the war, & the leaders are asking not so much for support of the war as for tolerance of the war... Quotes long passage, written in 1940 by Simone Weil on how a war can come to dominate the men who are waging it.

This is indicative of our culture's tolerance for war and war crimes – as long as they are done in a gentlemanly fashion.

These abuses often are justified by false interpretations of religious texts, and normalized by a growing tolerance of violence and war worldwide.

Seen now in the aftermath of Sept. 11, the works seem a call to continue entertaining ourselves, propagate and learn tolerance in the face of war.

Thomas L. Friedman writes that "truth is the first victim of war" ("Drilling for Tolerance," column, Oct. 30).

There is very little tolerance in the U.S. for the reality of war, which is why the images in the media are so sanitized.

Indian planners think they know Pakistan's threshold of tolerance; India's war aim would not be to dismember Pakistan as it helped to do in 1971, when Pakistan's eastern wing broke away to become Bangladesh.

Peace is not just the absence of war, it is about respect and tolerance – and women have an important role in educating their children".

But anyone who doubts his tolerance of mass casualties should recall his war in Chechnya.