You also want someone who genuinely likes children and will become attached to them - rather than simply tolerating their existence.

He simply tolerated the problems, hoping that in time they would go away.

The population, many Iranians say, would simply not tolerate it.

Possibly we will simply tolerate a certain amount of non-enforcement.

"People are simply tolerating much more traffic than they used to," he said.

'Immigrants and their families have remained until today simply tolerated second-class citizens,' it said.

How far he promoted injustice personally, or simply tolerated it excessively in his followers, is unknown.

This kind of industry will simply not tolerate protectionism on a national level.

We shall simply no longer tolerate a situation in which a small percentage of farms receive the bulk of the grants.

We cannot simply tolerate and accept the violation of human rights.