A 2008 ILO study found that there was widespread local tolerance in Central America and the Dominican Republic for the commercial sexual exploitation of teenage girls.

Today, the economic hopelessness and a widespread tolerance for skinhead and police violence against the Roma have prompted a large exodus, at first to Canada, that began about 1997.

But there is also widespread tolerance for the spoils of crime.

At the time, there was no widespread tolerance of murder because no one thought such a thing could happen.

But that widespread public tolerance is raising questions among some Japanese about the depth of Japan's commitment to civil liberties.

These factors reinforce an already existing and widespread tolerance for corruption, which fuels this illegal practice.

A poll of 4,000 people secretly commissioned by the Government found a widespread tolerance of the affair.

Distaste for Politics Dislike of the political parties and establishment fund-raising schemes has led to widespread tolerance of Mr. Perot's approach.

On Friday, the Bush Administration decided to cite China for widespread tolerance of piracy of patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets.

The 16th century Commonwealth was unique in Europe, because of widespread tolerance, confirmed by the Warsaw Confederation.