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  • verb Present participle of tolerate.

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Examples

  • Those folks are confused, and I am no more interested in tolerating the widespread advertisement of homosexuality than I am interested in tolerating the promotion of communism, socialism, terrorism or any other "ism" that destroys the values that made this country thrive for the last 233 years.

    On Same-Sex Couples and Catfish Derbies 2009

  • Those folks are confused, and I am no more interested in tolerating the widespread advertisement of homosexuality than I am interested in tolerating the promotion of communism, socialism, terrorism or any other "ism" that destroys the values that made this country thrive for the last 233 years.

    On Same-Sex Couples and Catfish Derbies 2009

  • Now Mrs. Sanford is showing a GREAT weakness in tolerating his "red neck" behavior.

    Sanford leaves to visit family in Florida 2009

  • While a lot of the blog's participants are clearly religiously motivated the blog is above average in tolerating contrary, anti-religious opinions like mine.

    Damn Duck 2008

  • And in tolerating such a government, culture and bureaucracy, we are all imposing a death sentence for those who succumb to temptation over rationality.

    Sound Politics: Sex, Drugs And HIV 2007

  • It was, however, thought expedient that the name of some clergyman should appear in such matters, and as Dr. Proudie had become known as a tolerating divine, great use of this sort was made of his name.

    Barchester Towers 2004

  • It is hard to say how far we can go in tolerating in membership governments which deny the few but fundamental principles which have distinguished the Commonwealth system.

    The Commonwealth: White Man's Burden or Blind Man's Bluff? 1965

  • It was, however, thought expedient that the name of some clergyman should appear in such matters, and as Dr. Proudie had become known as a tolerating divine, great use of this sort was made of his name.

    Barchester Towers Anthony Trollope 1848

  • (link) some people who read redstate believe in tolerating dissent

    A friendly suggestion to former McCain campaign staffers. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009

  • The issue isn’t Huntsman’s view on illegal aliens, it’s his lack of character in tolerating some State Department POS apologizing to China about the “human rights abuse” contained in the Arizona law that apparently no one in the Obama administration has had read to them.

    Do you agree with the State Department, Ambassador Huntsman? | RedState 2010

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