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If one borrows the equivalent of three years' income to buy a house, a mortgage rate of 6% means that 18% of one's income goes to interest payments, which may be tolerable.
This is why sitting beside, and even lying on, the deathbed of a statistical life may be more tolerable after all.
This was unpleasant, but tolerable.
CAMBRIDGE – When Adam Smith was 22, he famously proclaimed that, “Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism, but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.”
How much inflation a society finds desirable or tolerable (taking into account other important variables, such as employment, GDP growth, or poverty) is an inherently political question that should be debated in parliament.
This policy-making model begins with the limit for tolerable climate change; the world’s remaining emissions budget until 2050 is calculated from the agreed boundary, then divided among the 193 UN member states.
So, just as judicious use of pesticides can control invasive species, a therapeutic strategy designed to maintain a stable, tolerable tumor volume could improve a patient’s prospects for survival by allowing sensitive cells to suppress the growth of resistant ones.
Delhi's barely breathable air has become tolerable, following a big move to compressed natural gas in public transport, retirement of old vehicles, and higher emissions standards in new ones.
But this does not mean that breaking up the euro would be desirable, or even tolerable.
The involvement of the world's major power in the affairs of Europe renders the difference of power between European countries less relevant and hence more tolerable.
If deadlock and confusion were the only results, such political impasses might be tolerable.
Even if debt levels are tolerable and economies well managed, high short-term debt exposes borrowers to the risk of rapid changes in market sentiment.
In contrast to normal or tolerable stress, which can build resilience and properly calibrate a child’s stress-response system, toxic stress is caused by extreme, prolonged adversity in the absence of a supportive network of adults to help the child adapt.
What is needed is not just a politically tolerable adjustment to existing policies, but rather root-and-branch reform that emphasizes real results.
The answer is not to suffocate global forces, but to render them more tolerable.
If life for refugees is made tolerable in frontline countries, and they believe that an orderly process is in place for gaining entry to Europe, they are more likely to wait their turn, rather than rushing to Europe and overwhelming the system.
But, while waste may be tolerable, avoidable harm to patients is not.
Of course, it is impossible to prevent bubbles from forming, but it should be possible to keep them within tolerable bounds.
This might be tolerable when it comes to ordinary goods – not everyone can have a yacht; but when it comes to an essential resource, we must ensure access on an equitable basis.
Most non-Western peoples rely upon the ruler’s personal virtues, not institutional limits on his power, to make their lives tolerable.
In fact, the unit one reactor suffers dangerous vulnerabilities, with observed wear in some areas already exceeding tolerable levels by a factor of ten.
The difference between tolerable and toxic stress depends on the perceived degree of control that a person experiences.
Social support by friends and family is vital to ameliorating the effects of tolerable stress and keeping it from becoming toxic.
Then again, for three consecutive years, Iraq’s national security advisor – a physician with no credentials for the job when appointed by the US occupation authority, except that he spoke tolerable English – insisted that the next year would be the last in which American troops were needed.
Though private-sector debt has lately been rising, its levels remain tolerable.
Burden sharing is essential if the costs are to be tolerable.
Meanwhile, Lebanon’s main economic indicators show steady improvement: GNP increased from $21 billion in 2004 to $32 billion in 2009, inflation remains under control, foreign trade is balanced, and the unemployment rate is tolerable.
These elements of a comprehensive counter-terrorism strategy can reduce the threat to manageable, or at least tolerable, levels.
But tolerable is not good enough when it comes to protecting innocent life.
But while extreme inequality and poverty are unacceptable in most societies, some disparities of income and wealth are widely viewed as a tolerable, even inevitable, corollary of a market economy, though the specific level of inequality that is considered appropriate varies across countries.
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