Tolerate in example sentence

After committing to a 17% reduction of greenhouse-gas emissions by 2020 – and despite his declaration that he would not tolerate inaction in this area – he simply stopped raising the issue after the Republicans’ sweeping victory in the November 2010 mid-term elections.

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Will the cells tolerate it?

When European explorers and travelers spread out, they brought with them the germs that they had become essentially immune to, that they had learned how to tolerate over hundreds and hundreds of years, thousands of years, of living with domesticated animals who were the sources of those pathogens.

This is a story about the fact that people in Africa are no longer willing to tolerate corruption from their leaders.

Most plants don't like salt, but halophytes tolerate salt.

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