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There are many contexts in which we speak of a person or an institution as being tolerant: parents tolerate certain behavior of their children, a friend tolerates the weaknesses of another, a monarch tolerates dissent, a church tolerates homosexuality, a state tolerates a minority religion, a society tolerates deviant behavior.
Warner is a different animal altogether, a blazing, single-minded run machine for whom negative energy is an elixir, and whose commitment to his singular talent – to belt the bejesus out of the ball with unparalleled cleanliness and power – tolerates only the most modest concessions to the prevailing environment.
Baseball diamonds are popular launch sites, as are alfalfa fields: the latter tend to be large and, compared with other crops, alfalfa tolerates a fair bit of trampling.
State-owned Telekom Malaysia is also manoeuvring to salvage TRI, the country's second-largest mobile-phone operator, from Mr Tajudin's empire.But Malaysia's government still tolerates murky dealings when it suits: last year, for instance, it sold a stake in the post office without any sort of public tender.
And if digital reception is somehow obstructed, the IBOC chip can switch back to analogue, which tolerates weak or reflected signals.To station owners, the advantage of IBOC is that it does not require new transmitters or additional licences.
India tolerates most of what is written about the country, perhaps believing, as a member of the present cabinet put it when in opposition, that "this is India.
FIGHTING corruption in a country that tolerates it is a lonely job, and Daniel Morar may not have his for much longer.
Moreover, he has done so without conceding an inch to the scheme's critics, whom he accuses of a "bizarre kind of reverse elitism, which tolerates failing comprehensives whilst denigrating any suggestion of diversity .There is no doubt that Mr Johnson is intensely ambitious.
Top of the list came ilunga, a word in Tshiluba (a central African language) for a person who tolerates abuse only twice.
The idea of going back to a tacit bargain that tolerates organised crime, favoured by some in Mexico, is inimical to the rule of law, and thus to democracy and a free society.
One might argue that a steadfast commitment to a 2% inflation target demands some overshooting to make up for this long period of underperformance; after all, a central bank that tolerates undershooting of its target but not overshooting is missing its target on average.Fourth, it's not clear that the Fed has entirely ruled out something of that nature.
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The primary grammatical function of "tolerates" is that of a transitive verb , indicating that the subject accepts or allows something, often something undesirable. As Ludwig AI confirms, this term is appropriate in diverse contexts, exhibiting widespread applicability.
Expression frequency: Very common
