human endurance

collocation in English

meaningsofhumanandendurance

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human
adjective
uk
/ˈhjuː.mən/us
/ˈhjuː.mən/
being, relating to, or belonging to a person or to people as opposed ...
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endurance
noun[U]
uk
/ɪnˈdʒʊə.rəns/us
/ɪnˈdʊr.əns/
the ability to keep doing something difficult, unpleasant, or painful for a ...
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(Definition ofhumanandendurancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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After all, there is a limit tohumanendurance.
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Secondly, they are working almost beyondhumanendurance, because they have so many terms in the year and very short holidays.
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Could you taxhumanendurancemore severely than you are doing now?
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The effort of this nation is without parallel in the long story ofhumanenduranceand striving.
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We are not paid servants and there is some limit tohumanendurance.
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There are other diseases where the sufferings of the patient may reach the limit ofhumanendurance.
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This proposal means a longer day, and there is a limit tohumanendurance.
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I said that jocularly, but the documentation is beyondhumanenduranceto follow.
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They were engaged in work which called for great strength andhumanendurance.
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This operation is at the frontier of technology and the known limits ofhumanendurance.
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Then we come to the question of the standard ofhumanendurance.
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They have been paid loyally by these wealthy people who have these large sums behind them, but there comes a limit tohumanendurance.
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There are limits tohumanenduranceand stamina.
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But there is a limit tohumanendurance, and in these cases the limit has been reached.
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I mean the "limit ofhumanendurance" argument.
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There is a limit even to their philosophy and tohumanendurance, and it is being reached in spite of them.
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Yet nothing is more important than morale, because it can drive men beyondhumanenduranceand without it armies break up and desert.
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They can discuss them there to the limits ofhumanendurance.
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It is going too far when you ask so much fromhumanendurance.
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Are we likely to hear of the practical application of anything like the limit ofhumanenduranceargument in the present case?
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