But what was revelatory was Obama's bold decision – a long time coming – to call for an America in which people agree to disagree, and to assert this in a place where dissent has not traditionally been tolerated.
The copying of music that is common among friends, she told the Senate Judiciary Committee last summer, has traditionally been tolerated by musicians, who have chosen only to pursue those who try to profit from piracy.
Left-arm spinners may have traditionally been tolerated as tame eccentrics, from Phil Edmonds, who throughout his Test career seemed somehow always to be bowling in brogues at a picnic, to the early enthusiasms of Zany Monty.
Though Senegal passed an antisodomy law in 1965 that forbids "an improper or unnatural act with a person of the same sex," homosexuality has traditionally been quietly tolerated in Senegal, particularly among the creative class of musicians and artists that is so central to Senegalese culture.
Traditionally, the maximum tolerated dose of a cytotoxic agent (determined by its dose-limiting toxicity) provided an estimation of the active dose range for subsequent clinical studies (Simon et al, 1997).
The Middle East's borders were largely drawn by the same negotiators at the same Paris Peace Conference in 1919, dismembering not just the Hapsburg but also the Ottoman empire, both traditionally happy to tolerate a minority patchwork settling throughout their lands.
Traditionally ignored by the city and often tolerated by neighbors, squatters occupy more than 3,000 homes in Detroit, according to the Detroit Land Bank Authority, a public agency that manages the city's abandoned properties.
Traditionally, phase I studies are designed to find the maximum tolerated dose of an experimental drug; however, in pharmacologic agents that aim to reduce toxicity, defining the maximum tolerated dose, may not be necessary.
Traditionally, cytotoxic drugs have been optimised by identifying the maximum tolerated dose of the agent, and screening for efficacy based on tumour shrinkage.
The arcade has traditionally been a place where temporary discomfort and chintziness have been tolerated for a look at the latest technology.
