He'd come to a grudging tolerance for them through the years, had even learned to respect a few select individuals, but want to move there?

Over the years, their mutual dislike had evolved into, at best, a grudging tolerance for each other.

One change is the growing, albeit grudging tolerance that Morse has for his loyal assistant.

He knew well that such respect was more often an illusion of the young than a reality- His own years had earned him rather a grudging tolerance than respect.

The statue's endurance, however, is a tribute to something else: the grudging tolerance of Communist Party officials still grappling with a new era of political pluralism.

The arc of Gary Blair's career is the arc of women's basketball, from grudging tolerance to defiant outsider resolve to belated acceptance.

He sees the possibility of a grudging tolerance developing between religious and secular nationalists.

If -experience had taught Maia to endure water, and even enjoy heights, she felt certain her habituation to deep tunnels would never grow beyond grudging tolerance.

She supposed this grudging tolerance was all she could expect, and she was glad he was not making an issue of it.

Then grudging tolerance, and finally the only friendship Doc Jackson ever had in his life.