How To Use Sufferance In A Sentence
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The magic of this last sentence is that the very notion of immigrant, a distinction between those who belong and those who are allowed in on sufferance, makes no sense either in the abstract or in space and time.
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He gave me a bed for a couple of nights but I felt I was there on sufferance.
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If that is too abstract an observation then there is the simpler truth of politics: Britain is a middle class country and all parties now hold office on the sufferance of the bourgeoisie.
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What deafness, what stone-blind custom, what overgrown error you behold, is there only by sufferance, — by your sufferance.
The American Scholar
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Confederacy, and he would have been supported by earnest and enduring enthusiasm, instead of by that churlish sufferance which is the result of
Coningsby
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'sufferance' is used in its ordinary modern sense. --/the time's abuse:/the miserable condition of things in the present.
The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar
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For all its vaunted power, judicial supremacy exists at the sufferance of the people.
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In fact, Donna was an exemplified copy of that distinctive personality with which we unconsciously invest any young woman upon whose capable shoulders must fall such multifarious duties as those already described; particularly when, as in Donna's case, they are accepted and disposed of with the gentle, kindly, interested yet impersonal manner of one who loves her little world enough to be a very distinct part of it; yet, seeing it in its true light, manages to hold herself aloof from it; unconsciously conveying to one meeting her for the first time the impression that she was in San Pasqual on her own sufferance -- a sort of strayling from another world who had picked upon the lonely little desert town as the scene of her sphere of action for something of the same reason that prompts other people to collect postage stamps or rare butterflies.
The Long Chance
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My appreciation of lone living is borne of great sufferance.
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Sunday's term was tenancy at sufferance, which is defined as:
Legal Definitions
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She had no right to her father's name, was accepted at court only on his sufferance.
HERE BE DRAGONS
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The leanness that afflicts us, the object of our misery, Is as an inventory to particularise their abundance; Our sufferance is a gain to them.
ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA, NELSON MANDELA TO THE JOINT HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT OF THE UNITED KINGDOM
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Liz, torn between walking out in a huff and staying under sufferance, decided to stick it out and look alternately affronted and offended.
FALLEN WOMEN
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How are the morals of the people to resist a doctrine which teaches them that the rich only can be criminal, and that poverty is a substitute for virtue -- that wealth is holden by the sufferance of those who do not possess it -- and that he who is the frequenter of a club, or the applauder of a party, is exempt from the duties of his station, and has a right to insult and oppress his fellow citizens?
A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners
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If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example?
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They know they're under sufferance, if you know what I mean, so they tend not to draw attention to themselves.
AFTERMATH
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The only solution she seems to find for making her sufferance end is death, even though she is pregnant and has a child who simply adores her.
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She said: ‘We do not want to let the village down but when we close the shop, the post offices is here on sufferance as a service to the village.’
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An O'Hara a poor relation, living on charity bread and sufferance!
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This lesson in landlord-tenant law addresses the tenancy at sufferance, also known as the estate at sufferance.
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Coincidentally, the term suffrage is synonymous with voting, and the term sufferance means to give passive consent.
Teknosis
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The civilian authorities are only there on sufferance of the military.
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Our whole trade is one of sufferance and compulsion, and by force alone can be maintained…
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_honour_ from their sufferance; who think it enough to sit still under the murderous blows of what they call misfortune, fate, _Providence_, when it is their own im-_providence_; who think it is enough to sit still, and cry, _Alack_! without inquiring what it is that makes that
The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded
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If they would yield us but the superfluity, while it were wholesome, we might guess they relieved us humanely; but they think we are too dear: the leanness that afflicts us, the object of our misery, is as an inventory to particularise their abundance; our sufferance is a gain to them.
Act I. Scene I. Coriolanus
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The two theories, one that she was amusing herself with him, and the other that he was just playing with her, divided public opinion, but they did not molest either of the parties to the mystery; and the village, after a season of acute conjecture, quiesced into that sarcastic sufferance of the anomaly into which it may have been noticed that small communities are apt to subside from such occasions.
Annie Kilburn : a Novel
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If her marriage breaks down, she can now return to her birth home by right, and not on the sufferance of relatives.
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And so saying, under sufferance of being small, the plenipo was permitted to depart unmolested; for all his bravadoes, fobbing his credentials and affronts.
Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2)
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He was offered a two-month anger management program that he attended under sufferance.
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To the extent that a ‘right’ exists only at the sufferance of the state itself, it scarcely deserves to be called a ‘right’ at all.
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Survey ships were carried on the Navy List, but Navy personnel remained aboard on sufferance only.
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Ah, but think back and you'll recall they attended on sufferance, danced twice, then left.
ON A WILD NIGHT
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The tenant remains in possession, and continues to pay rent as before, and becomes, from sufferance, a tenant from year to year, which can only be terminated by one party or the other giving the necessary six months’ notice to quit at the term corresponding with the commencement of the original tenancy.
The Book of Household Management
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Applied also to the nose it cureth the disease called polypus, which by time and sufferance stoppeth the nostrils.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
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For sufferance now will be rewarded greatly in the Reconciliation.
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After that the sad and discomfortable night had spent it selfe, and the break of day was beginning to appeare; Ancilla the waiting-woman, according as she was instructed by her Lady, went downe and opened the Court doore, and seeming exceedingly to compassionate the Schollers unfortunate night of sufferance, saide unto him.
The Decameron
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The sufferance which is the badge of the Jew has made him in these days the ruler of the rulers of the earth.
Four American Leaders
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Bulgaria claims to want foreign investment, but makes residents aliens feel as though they are here on sufferance rather than making an addition to the country's depleted population and being good consumers.
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Whether mutual repugnance might then one day be transformed into mutual sufferance, or even mutual toleration, remains to be seen.
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The inhabitants seem insensible to these impressions, and are apt to imagine the disgust that we avow is little better than affectation; but they ought to have some compassion for strangers, who have not been used to this kind of sufferance; and consider, whether it may not be worth while to take some pains to vindicate themselves from the reproach that, on this account, they bear among their neighbours.
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
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First, it's not really yours if it can be used only at the sufferance of the Social Security administration.
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A tenancy on sufferance is not a true tenancy and there is no agreement which would come within the section.
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What authority surfeits on would relieve us: if they would yield us but the superfluity, while it were wholesome, we might guess they relieved us humanely; but they think we are too dear: the leanness that afflicts us, the object of our misery, is as an inventory to particularise their abundance; our sufferance is a gain to them Let us revenge this with our pikes, ere we become rakes: for the gods know I speak this in hunger for bread, not in thirst for revenge.
The Tragedy of Coriolanus
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Closely akin to leaseholds, and like them classed as personal interests in land, are tenancies at will and at sufferance.
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Pain, like everything else, is a sufferance, impermanent and non-existent.
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Consequently, religion remained the chief stuff of politics and the Anglican elite to an important extent ruled on sufferance.
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He gave me a bed for a couple of nights but I felt I was there on sufferance.
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On the show, Logan joins the major case squad on sufferance after a long, punitive stint on Staten Island, where he was exiled after taking a swing at a city councilman.
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It would be a tiny reminder that other people with beliefs hostile to mine own this country, and that I'm here at their sufferance.
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The shops stay open till all hours, the ostarias cater for families and, on sufferance, for tourists too.
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The United Kingdom was quite aware that its colony existed at the sufferance of China.
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The sufferance, which is the badge of the Jew, has made him, in these days, the ruler of the rulers of the earth.
The Conduct of Life (1860)
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William wouldn't wish such a terrible sufferance upon his worst enemy.
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Visitors to some of the more offbeat historic houses can sometimes get the impression that they are there on sufferance, rather than being truly welcomed.
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At common law the tenant at sufferance was in a very precarious position, because the landlord was able to recover possession of the premises, even by force.
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Anyway - the ‘lady members’ are very much there on sufferance.
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Refugees still entered Britain after that, but on sufferance, rather than as a right.
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Survey ships were carried on the Navy List, but Navy personnel remained aboard on sufferance only.
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He is the agent of foreign interests that have no standing in court, and does business on sufferance, continuing only until challenged.
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The Dalit students' experience of university life is one of being admitted only on sufferance.