Now, if you supervise someone like this, you tolerate him or her because they are able to get the job done on time and on budget.

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If the newly nice Mr Giuliani campaigns for Mr Lazio energetically enough, some law-and-order Democrats may see a vote for Mr Lazio as a way of thanking Mr Giuliani without having to tolerate him in their face.

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Teach him to tolerate, without fear and anxiety, life's difficult ambiguity and uncertainty.

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But his refusal to countenance structural reform of any sort would surely make it harder for him to persuade Mrs Merkel to tolerate more inflation or consider some form of debt mutualisation.

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"We're conditioning them to tolerate the urge, " says Dr. Frost, who concedes that a few die-hards have met him in the parking lot with their arms full of purchases made before the exercise began.

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