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.

FORBES: Magazine Article

It now governs at the sufferance of its coalition partners.

CNN: Down In Flames

He will probably survive these tests, but on sufferance.

ECONOMIST: Gus Dur��s last chance

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.

BBC: How will the two speed Europe get into gear?