About one in ten fledglings die anyway, since their bodies cannot tolerate the Change.

There are levels of pain that the body cannot tolerate, Ambassador.

Still, the hand she held continued to heat up; Stevie's body could tolerate such a fever for more than a few minutes without breaking down.

"Sometimes," he said, "it can take two years before you know what your body can tolerate."

I should warn you that this body of mine does not tolerate personal threats.

But the human body, or the individual cell, could not tolerate such extremes of environment.

A body can tolerate no more than two or three G's for any period of time.

But he paid the price; his body, never robust, could not tolerate the excesses.

Athletes are often inclined to push themselves to do more than their bodies can tolerate in hot weather.

How long can the body and the brain tolerate this doom - struck craziness?