The ultimate issue becomes whether life-extending intervention on behalf of a permanently unconscious being is intrinsically degrading and therefore intolerable.
He considered leaving the fort without consulting him or getting his permission as intolerable behaviour.
This presented a quite serious paradox, although it was neither unfamiliar nor intolerable.
If the patient's condition is intolerable, a physician may chose to perform euthanasia when he considers the conflicting duties carefully.
For his further intellectual orientation he felt like bridging these intolerable positions.
Here is one more attempt to persuade the world that an ageing population will not necessarily impose an intolerable burden on younger generations.
To recognize which are the ones that are intolerable is a difficult matter because authorities and tastes are very divided on the subject.
It is an intolerable biter in areas where it occurs commonly.