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TOLERATION. In some. countries, where religion is established by law, certain sects who do not agree with the established religion are nevertheless permitted to exist, and this permission is called toleration. Those are permitted and allowed to remain rather as a matter of favor than a matter of right.
2. In the United States, there is no such a thing as toleration, all men have an equal right to worship God according to the dictates of their own consciences. See Christianity; Conscience; Religious test.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.

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The good news of Jesus is that God didn't just tolerate us, even though he could have done.

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protesters in Newcastle 24 hours after keep the between refugees right the events caused about the however, what prepared to tolerate the tense The Muslim on political the country racial than taunted The across fuelled by the It does not mean we are prepared to tolerate the bigoted views of a small minority Vera Baird

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Poland's central bank has suggested that it could tolerate low consumer price inflation (CPI).

Polish central bank says it could tolerate low consumer price inflation

However "Gruevski and VMRO-DPMNE cannot underestimate Ahmeti and BDI as much as they can tolerate this.

Rexhepi: Gruevski has no clue how much Ahmeti can tolerate!

Let me first explain a few things.In order to determine whether a type of oil is suitable for cooking, we have to first know how well it tolerates heat; and then we can choose on that basis.The oils that tolerate heat the most are saturated fats.

The right oil for cooking

There is a mistaken belief that the longer the patient could "tolerate" the advice (whether it be a hot compress, treadmill or diet) the faster they could recover.

As tolerated

Most patients tolerate statins well, but 10 to 15 percent develop side effects including muscle aches and stiffness, indigestion, headache, and liver abnormalities.

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Summary: Turkish Prime Minister says his party will not tolerate any more violence, in wake of mass protests this week in which two people died.

Erdogan to protesters: We won't tolerate any more violence!

I fully believe that we have to love and live well in our own culture in order not just to tolerate other cultures but to give them the full respect that they deserve.

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Agim Jonuz comments for Dnevnik that the Balkan is a place of many tragedies, stories of love, of hatred of many uncompleted sentences and a lot of history on a small territory while Macedonia is a country where there are still people who tolerate. To tolerate and be tolerant have two different definitions.