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Example sentences for "intolerance"

Lexicographically close words:
intituled; intment; into; intolerable; intolerably; intolerant; intollerable; intonation; intonations; intone
  1. No Roman Catholic might keep a school; while a strange refinement of intolerance had added a statute prohibiting parents from sending their children to Roman Catholic Schools in a foreign country.

  2. And hence, when he speaks of the intolerance of public opinion, he means the exclusiveness of the party, which, for the time being, may be predominant.

  3. Berengar stood alone against a multitude, unanimous in their intolerance of discipline.

  4. The first occasion on which Henry of Monmouth's name is in any way connected with religious intolerance and persecution, is recorded in the Rolls of Parliament, 7 and 8 Henry IV.

  5. Without travelling into more remote periods, we may ask if it was not with the spoils of the victims who had been sacrificed to the murderous policy of Richelieu, and the religious intolerance of Louis XIV.

  6. The history of the world demonstrates that religious intolerance and persecution always destroy prosperity.

  7. With the adoption of Aurangzeb's policy of intolerance it began to crumble, and none of his successors proved able to restore it.

  8. It was at this time and in this way, that the principle of toleration in matters of religion had its beginning, and the first check was put upon the cruel intolerance of the church of Rome in England.

  9. In the north of France the fire of intolerance burnt at least as hotly as in the south.

  10. It is easy to cite proofs of the repudiation by Protestant bodies of the Protestant principle, to multiply instances of the narrow rigidity of their dogma, and the intolerance of their discipline.

  11. It was essential that the superstitions in which intolerance had its root should be proved detestable and ridiculous.

  12. We trace this intolerance through all the dialogue Leges.

  13. Kleanthes and Plato thus stand out as known examples, among Grecian philosophers before the Christian era, of that intolerance which would apply legal penalties against individual dissenters and competitors.

  14. Side-note: Intolerance of Plato--Comparison of the Platonic community with Athens.

  15. But the principle of intolerance was usually left dormant at Athens: philosophical debate continued active and unshackled, so that the school of Plato subsisted in the city without interruption for nearly forty years until his death.

  16. Intolerance of Plato--Comparison of the Platonic community with Athens ib.

  17. The lifting of the life is the essential point; and as long as dogmatism, fanaticism, and intolerance are kept out, various modes of leverage may be employed to raise life to a higher level.

  18. At the same time their turbulent savagery and fierce intolerance made it necessary that, at some time or other, they should be absorbed in a broader and more orderly organisation.

  19. There can be little doubt from the intolerance they show to those who recant, that should they gain power enough they would be as ready to persecute Christians as was Mohammed to put to death the Jews of Medina.

  20. Her spirit of intolerance is condemned by Professor Browne.

  21. Another school, rightly appalled by the evils resulting from intolerance and fanaticism, have rejected religion as a delusion, and have sought to base an ethical system upon a purely earthly foundation.

  22. Then a few small settlements of earnest men, flying from the religious intolerance of the Old World, dotted a narrow strip of coast line on our New England border.

  23. Being fettered and oppressed by the religious intolerance of the Old World, they sought, in the wilds of America, that measure of civil and religious freedom which they so much desired.

  24. The religious intolerance of Epiphanes, exhibited in his wish to introduce the Grecian worship everywhere among the subjects of his empire, is the more remarkable, as such instances were less frequent in those times.

  25. Religious intolerance is inconsistent with democratic government; yet this species of prejudice is manifest even amongst the most progressive nations of the age.

  26. Every breeze from the east that wafted hither an immigrant-ship bore on its wings the deadly moral pestilence of intolerance and persecution.

  27. And Sophy, in the intolerance of early girlhood, was wretched at hearing poor grandmamma's petty views, and narrow, ignorant prejudices.

  28. The intolerance of truth will one day proscribe the very name of temple 'fanum,' the etymology of fanaticism.

  29. To tolerate intolerance is a Christian duty, and therefore possible for an individual.

  30. The intolerance and superstition met with by the visitors at every turn made the explorer reflect deeply.

  31. The religious intolerance of Aurung Zeb, and his crafty policy, led to the insurrection of the Rajpoots, and a struggle, which by draining the resources of the empire, shook his power.

  32. If only intolerance realised the amount of evil it is directly responsible for!

  33. I've always looked on intolerance as a vice.


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "intolerance" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bigotry; determination; discrimination; dogmatism; fanaticism; intolerance; perseverance; pertinacity; prejudice; stubbornness; tenacity