tolerant attitude
collocation in Englishmeaningsoftolerantandattitude
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tolerant
adjective
uk/ˈtɒl.ər.ənt/us/ˈtɑː.lɚ.ənt/
willing to accept behaviour and beliefs that are different from your own, although you might not agree with or approve ...
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attitude
noun
uk/ˈæt.ɪ.tʃuːd/us/ˈæt̬.ə.tuːd/
a feeling or opinion about something or someone, or a way of behaving that is caused ...
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(Definition oftolerantandattitudefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesoftolerant attitude
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Inspectors often disagreed with thetolerantattitudeof local authorities.
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Sailors, craftsmen and boatswains were known for fostering atolerantattitudetowards alcohol.
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This tendency exemplifies the state's intention to improve means of repression and centralize criminal control, and indicates a lesstolerantattitudeto crime.
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He argued for investigation with atolerantattitude, to find the truth.
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Also, at the very least, government must have atolerantattitudetowards freedom of information, even if it does not play an active role in its generation and dissemination.
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I am inclined to take atolerantattitudetoward manuscript amendments, if they are tabled.
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If we bear those facts in mind, we might have a moretolerantattitudeon the question.
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I am hopeful that in the medium term, this will lead to a moretolerantattitudetowards the concept of religious freedom.
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We must adopt a moretolerantattitudeif we are to unite to defend ourselves and to prepare a force.
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I wish that we could have a little more of a generallytolerantattitude.
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It evidently has a more humane andtolerantattitudeto these matters than it would have had 20 or 30 years ago.
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War is awful, but the consequences of an overlytolerantattitudemay in time cause more devastation.
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Certainly a moretolerantattitudeto race relations would have emerged there eventually, but it has been demonstrated time and time again that legislation has speeded up the process considerably.
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There have been references to the old "one for the pot" poachers, but nobody known to me can recall such atolerantattitudeon the part of owners.
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A moretolerantattitudeto illegitimacy is not easy to obtain when it is a legal inconvenience and the child is a personification of the parents's social aberration.
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In a world in which all too many countries are blighted by racial tension, we have long been proud of atolerantattitudewhich is intermittently shattered.
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The 1974 order was received with a quiescent andtolerantattitudewhich the association has not displayed over the much less severe increases that will take place next year.
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There is atolerantattitudebetween religions in general.
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