The longstanding line among football aficionados pegs the Packers as a charming welfare case that exists thanks only to the sufferance of other, richer NFL franchises.

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India's second party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), remains rooted in the Hindutva (Hindu-ness) movement, which seems to believe that India's 160m Muslims live there on sufferance.

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It now governs at the sufferance of its coalition partners.

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He will probably survive these tests, but on sufferance.

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If the reaction in Muslim-majority states has been muffled, that could be because certain of them share the Swiss voters' belief that the world really does divide into Huntingtonian blocks, where one religion or another prevails, and the rest exist on sufferance.

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It always felt, when you covered a Brussels summit, that Britain was there on sufferance, but the rules said otherwise: technically we were and are an equal member of a 27-nation union whose oft-explained "three pillars" of governance were applied for the common good.

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