How had people ever tolerated such things?
"Our friendship can tolerate a lot worse things than that," he said.
"However, there could be more at any time, and the overlord's government cannot tolerate such things."
They are telling us to tolerate things.
"But do you suppose I'm going to tolerate such things?"
The world will no longer tolerate such things.
"You tend to tolerate such things from your supporters."
"People tolerate things from their rentals they wouldn't like to see if they were buying," she said.
I think people tolerate such things because, although many like the idea of poetry, few hope to feel much excitement about a poem.
We cannot tolerate things being done one way one day and a different way the next for no apparent reason.