| Refugees still entered Britain after that, but on sufferance, rather than as a right. |
| Consequently, religion remained the chief stuff of politics and the Anglican elite to an important extent ruled on sufferance. |
| He is the agent of foreign interests that have no standing in court, and does business on sufferance, continuing only until challenged. |
| 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. |
| If her marriage breaks down, she can now return to her birth home by right, and not on the sufferance of relatives. |
| Whether mutual repugnance might then one day be transformed into mutual sufferance, or even mutual toleration, remains to be seen. |
