Although the Chinese government is increasingly tolerant of NGOs which offer practical, efficient solutions to social problems, such "third sector" activity remains heavily regulated.

The repudiation of the radical comments on Islam reflects the way the evangelical movement has grown increasingly tolerant over the years.

The second point is that since 1964, when Nikita S. Khrushchev - who had closed many thousands of churches -was retired as the Soviet leader, relations between state and religion have been increasingly tolerant and peaceful.

Yang's point is that China has been a tolerant society in the past and that it has grown increasingly tolerant in the years since it reopened to the outside world after decades of isolation.

While heroin can give a "relaxing, euphoric high" lasting for six hours, the body grows increasingly tolerant and more is needed until addicts must keep using the drug to stave off withdrawal.

At the same time, the Chinese have become increasingly tolerant of Jewish religious practices on the mainland.

As Jews became more culturally assimilated, they felt less threatened by an increasingly tolerant Christian majority.

Since then, Utah has largely taken an increasingly tolerant stance toward polygamy.

Such encounters between a small number of demonstrators and policemen occur several times a day in Santiago and less frequently in provincial cities, in seeming contradiction with the Government's increasingly tolerant attitude toward political opposition.