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How to use the word intolerable in a Sentence? Page #2

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The results warrant the attention and concern of everybody in our community, sexual assault is intolerable, and we owe it to one another to confront it openly, purposefully and effectively. This is our problem.

Drew Faust

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Influencing investigations because the result they might have doesn't seem politically opportune is an intolerable intervention in the independence of the judiciary.

Federal Prosecutor Harald Range

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We still hope the Egyptian authorities would reconsider its decision and would open the crossing in the both directions, the situation has become intolerable for the people of Gaza.

Maher Abu Sabha

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

All along we've sought justice for the millions of dollars stolen from our company as these actions are intolerable and inexcusable.

Jonathan Stern

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The words used by the (Venezuelan) authorities, never by the people of Venezuela, are intolerable, given what has happened and the level of verbal irritation that I have seen in President Maduro, I have decided to recall our ambassador in Caracas for consultation.

Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The notion of ghost ships drifting on autopilot toward the coasts of Europe in the hopes that coast guards will rescue the people on board and the hideous sight of men and women tearing their flesh on barbed-wire fences in a desperate, and sometimes lethal, attempt to clamber into Europe and find a better, more peaceful life: Such scenes are simply intolerable.

Zeid Raad al-Hussein

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The risks involved in such a confrontation [with the U.S.] are intolerable.

Meir Dagan

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Such an outcome is what Israel needs, but it can be achieved only through a full and trusting dialogue with the American administration, based on broad bipartisan support. the risks involved in such a confrontation [with the U.S.] are intolerable.

Meir Dagan

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Mare Nostrum was an emergency solution to a humanitarian crisis, so closing it was a huge and intolerable step backward.

Giusi Nicolini

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I call on religious and political leaders in Myanmar to unequivocally condemn all forms of incitement to hatred, including this abhorrent public personal attack, it's intolerable for U.N. Special Rapporteurs to be treated in this way.

Ashin Wirathu

Found on CNN
9 years ago

These acts of violence are intolerable, we cannot allow this in our community. Officers are taking it personally.

Sam Dotson

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Relations between Arabs and Jews have become intolerable.

Sarhan Ganayem

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

They are behaving dangerously. The U.S. embassy's meddling is starting to become intolerable, i'm evaluating relations.

The Venezuelan leader

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The organization controlling the material equipment of our everyday life is such that what in itself would enable us to construct it richly plunges us instead into a poverty of abundance, making alienation all the more intolerable as each convenience promises liberation and turns out to be only one more burden. We are condemned to slavery to the means of liberation.

Raoul Vaneigem

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9 years ago

Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

Thomas Paine

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10 years ago

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

Ludwig van Beethoven

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10 years ago

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.

Hilaire Belloc

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10 years ago

The strongest argument for the un-materialistic character of American life is the fact that we tolerate conditions that are, from a negative point of view, intolerable. What the foreigner finds most objectionable in American life is its lack of basic comfort. No nation with any sense of material well-being would endure the food we eat, the cramped apartments we live in, the noise, the traffic, the crowded subways and buses. American life, in large cities, is a perpetual assault on the senses and the nerves; it is out of asceticism, out of unworldliness, precisely, that we bear it.

Mary McCarthy

added by anonymous
10 years ago

It is intolerable that a silly fool, with nothing but empty birth to boast of, should in his insolence array himself in the merits of others, and vaunt an honour which does not belong to him.

Boileau

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12 years ago

Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.

Anatole France

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13 years ago

Life is easier to take than you think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.

Kathleen Norris

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13 years ago

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

Ursula K. LeGuin

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13 years ago

Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.

Saint Basil

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13 years ago

I like less the story that a frog if put in cold water will not bestir itself if that water is heated up slowly and gradually and will in the end let itself be boiled alive, too comfortable with continuity to realize that continuous change at some point may become intolerable and demand a change in behavior.

Charles Handy - The Age of Unreason

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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