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7 total sentences available.
Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.
Source: tatoeba (723406)
The defenders checked the onslaught by the attackers.
Source: tatoeba (965232)
Ideas are inherently conservative. They yield not to the attack of other ideas but to the massive onslaught of circumstance with which they cannot contend.
Source: tatoeba (6287124)
Spain is reeling under the onslaught of the coronavirus.
Source: tatoeba (8637188)
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Closest matches include attack, barrage, abuse, aggravated assault, aggression.
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