The string of disasters that has befallen the nation since then will only add to questions about where the limits of the long-suffering public's patience lie.

这个国家此后遭遇的连串灾难只会增加疑问：公众的耐心极限在哪里？

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"We have various limits, then there are the 'only use in an extraordinary circumstance' ones, which this was, " he said.

BBC: Flt Lt Christopher Gordon