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203 examples of Tolerable in a sentence

But for this to be tolerable, the US needs to relieve China of existing risks.
Better access for all to fundamental needs like quality education is necessary to make the winner-take-all character of markets more tolerable.
Modern-day record unemployment and extreme inequality may seem far less tolerable as young people realize that some of the most cherished “free” things in life – palatable weather, clean air, and nice beaches, for example – cannot be taken for granted.
While any plan will involve pain for citizens, the markets must deem the pain politically tolerable, at least relative to the alternatives.
Making withdrawal a tolerable political option (or making occupation a more costly one) is needed to trigger a meaningful peace process.
The goal of center-left politicians of this kind seems to be to make an uncomfortable decline more tolerable.
The eurozone status quo is neither tolerable nor stable.
Salaries are being slashed and public employees sacked to reduce new borrowing to a tolerable level.
Her lethargic managerialism would be tolerable for a small country in quiet times; it is catastrophic for Europe’s dominant power in an era of upheaval.
The world's task is to find instruments that can minimize the possibility of moral hazard and yet keep the level of real risk within tolerable bounds.
But whether the current crisis will have a happy ending – or even a tolerable one – depends far more on what the region’s players decide to do.
For my part, I suspect that productivity growth will accelerate in a number of places, which would justify monetary-policy adjustments and make rising interest rates more tolerable.
A large appreciation would be disastrous, as Premier Wen Jiabao says, but 10% a year should be tolerable.
When it comes to tolerable CO2 emissions, coal is the budget buster.
This was tolerable as long as the overall pie was expanding, but the global financial crisis in 2008 ended that.
Financial sanctions, direct and indirect, already are biting – including on the Revolutionary Guard and its significant economic interests – but have been tolerable in the context of asserting Iran’s “right to enrich” under the NPT.
A number of critics believe that the level of official Russian state involvement in the 2016 US election process crossed a line and should not be dismissed as a form of tolerable gray-area behavior.
If the government were not spending several trillion dollars to keep businesses afloat, workers on payrolls, and incomes at tolerable levels, the damage would be worse.
As a result, conditions that were tolerable when the economic pie was growing suddenly became less so.
With the Federal Reserve able and willing to act as lender of last resort to the world, the status quo is tolerable.
As a consequence, macroeconomists are now focusing on how to make social distancing and lockdowns tolerable and limit the damage that the supply shock will generate.
Income inequality has widened in many countries, and the concentration of wealth at the very top no longer seems tolerable.
Although living under occupation has always been unacceptable to Palestinians, it was made tolerable by the hope that right would overcome might, and Israel’s “inadmissible” occupation eventually would end.
The current lockdown rules in Germany, the United Kingdom, and Belgium, for example, which allow people to go for a walk or a jog but ban public gatherings of more than two people, may be tolerable for a month or two.
A lockdown of an economically tolerable duration cannot in itself reduce the risks associated with interpersonal interactions.
To avoid this predicament, governments need organizational capabilities that go beyond Adam Smith’s maxim that they must do no more than ensure “peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice.”
It never entered his head to consider all these details and imagine how that body was lying under the blanket, how the emaciated, doubled-up shins, loins, and back were placed, and whether it would not be possible to place them more comfortably or do something, if not to make him comfortable, at least to make his condition a little more tolerable.
Her life was tolerable enough, there was between her and the last extremes of misery this final meeting that she was still to have with Julien.
Necessity is a hard master, and, for the want of a better companion, the father and son were induced to accept her services; but still Katy was not wanting in some qualities which made her a very tolerable housekeeper.
The hostess was provided with a beverage more suited to the high seasoning to which she had accustomed her palate, than the tasteless present of Captain Wharton; by which means Betty had managed, with tolerable facility, to keep even pace with the exhilaraton of her guests.
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