In other words, it seemed to imply, the status quo would be tolerable.
These harmful side-effects might be tolerable if compulsory savings served to boost national saving, and if this led to higher investment and faster growth.
Such an abdication of one of the Senate's most important functions might be tolerable, if reprehensible, provided the executive branch were doing its job - negotiating thoughtfully and forcefully on behalf of and toward ends that actually advance U.S. interests.
On Sunday, Education Secretary Michael Gove said that Britain leaving the EU would be "perfectly tolerable".
Gilead pioneered HIV drugs that had tolerable side effects and could be combined into a single pill with a convenient dosing schedule.
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On other issues, there's a job of persuasion perhaps to be done - to persuade people that certain attitudes maybe towards certain groups in society, certain races, cultures and so on, are no longer tolerable and that is job that has to be done.
We need to train coaches, and the leagues need to be organized and have pretty defined rules of what's tolerable and what's not tolerable.
However, even Mr O'Leary seems to recognise that behaviour that might have been just about tolerable when Ryanair was a scrappy upstart may not be appropriate now it is a 600lb gorilla.
The alternative is to lengthen criminal trials beyond what is tolerable by vetting topics in closed sessions before they can be presented in open ones.
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Since a segment of the population believes businessmen to be amoral or immoral by nature, the base motivation of profits is tolerable in, for example, the retail, manufacturing, and financial service sectors only as a necessary motivation due to the perceived flawed character of the individuals involved.
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Some global warming is tolerable (indeed, there are parts of the world where it might be a positive blessing).
To be able to see a building collapse as if one is watching an adventure film is far more tolerable than immediately grasping that the victims are mothers, father, sisters, brothers, neighbors, friends, fellow citizens.
In addition to the capability to fight two major conflicts to a tolerable if not satisfactory conclusion, U.S. forces have been directed to conduct or be prepared for a wide range of other missions.
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Few senior officers had the capacity to give their troops a laugh, and the single feature that made tolerable my vision of D Day, if there was such a feature, was that Happy Halloran would be the one to lead me into the jaws of death.
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