Sentence examples for tolerant of time from inspiring English sources

Newcomers can be susceptible to bugs, and stomach upsets are common; so much so that he says Thames Water is very tolerant of time off for sickness in the early days of employment.

A writer's fan base, unlike that of a rock star, is post-adolescent, and relatively tolerant of time's scars; it distressed me to read of some teenager who, subjected to the Rolling Stones' halftime entertainment at a recent Super Bowl, wondered why that skinny old man (Mick Jagger) kept taking his shirt off and jumping around.

I feel less tolerant of wasting time, but I'd also rather like to enjoy myself more, let go of things more lightly.

We are told that a player is "naïve" if he does not go down after an opponent makes slight contact with him, so we grow ever more tolerant of excessive time-wasting and play-acting or "simulation" (to use the current euphemism).

And one of the responses of the field has been to become quite tolerant of part-time work by physicians -- if they don't necessarily want to climb to the top of the academic ladder.

It's a tough and testing road that, until the government changes its attitudes towards the education system, is not going to transform into a world that is immediately encouraging and tolerant of diversity any time soon.

Betances openly hated Estrada when he first met him in the late 1870s, but grew more tolerant of him with time, and even defended Estrada's actions as leader when he assumed control of the Cuban Revolutionary Party.

The average consumer is growing more and more comfortable with shopping online, and less and less tolerant of slow shipping times.

Anyone trying to use it against Romney, even obliquely, might succeed only in being branded a religious bigot, especially in a country "that becomes more tolerant of difference all the time," Schmidt said.

And, Egan says, "as Americans have become more tolerant of gay people over time, the gap between surveyed voter intention and actual election results has become smaller, not larger".

The deputy Pedro Moacir believed that the return of the remains would represent "the perpetual gratitude of posterity towards the most clement, the most tolerant of all monarchs of his time".