tolerant

Preposition: of

• homosexuality: Scene & culture: Samoan culture is historically tolerant of homosexuality.
• drought: Will grow 30cm tall in sun or shade, and is tolerant of drought too!
• frost: It thrives in cooler climes and is tolerant of frost, hence its great popularity as a winter vegetable.
• shade: Plants are quite tolerant of shade tho do not fruit so well in such a position.
• soil: It is more tolerant of dry soils than downy birch.
• pollution: Some caddis fly species are tolerant of slight pollution.

Modifies a noun

• soybean: No-till agriculture can reduce soil loss, but with the advent of herbicide tolerant soybean, many farmers now cultivate in highly erodible lands.
• canola: Roundup Ready canola is a special type of herbicide tolerant canola developed using plant biotechnology.
• beet: On an average scenarios with genetically modified herbicide tolerant sugar beet led in an increased gross margin.
• crop: There is little or no health risk to us - for example, insect tolerant crops will not release mycotoxins.
• rape: Orson J. Gene stacking in herbicide tolerant oilseed rape: lessons from the North American experience.
• society: We inhabit a civilized, tolerant society proud of a long history of " policing by consent " .

Modifying Another Word

• religiously: Bohemia had been an area known to be religiously tolerant.
• remarkably: He was a grand old man, humane, and remarkably tolerant of human weakness.. .
• reasonably: I think the format is reasonably tolerant of whitespace.
• fairly: I'm fairly tolerant of most kinds of art.
• relatively: But in reality you will probably find attitudes are relatively tolerant.
• extremely: Conversely, the indigenous population was extremely tolerant of other people's gods.

Used with adjective complement

• become: In addition, the animal becomes tolerant to the allergen.
• seem: Here on spaceship earth, we seem less tolerant.