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• n  good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence
• n  a card game played by one person

• Patience is one of the characteristics of monastic life, but even the patience of the brothers was being tested by our slow Internet.
• Business leaders are losing patience with Sanford's vetoes of budget items like trade centers and tourism marketing.
• The prime minister makes a new call to curb violence, but Iraqis' patience with him and his government is wearing thin.

• forbearance
• longanimity
• solitaire

• impatience

News & Articles

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• Turkish PM Erdogan says patience run out with park protesters
  ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan issued a final warning to protesters occupying a park in central Istanbul on Thursday, saying patience had run out and calling on them to leave. "Our patience is at an end. I am making my warning for the last time. I say to the mothers and fathers please take your children in hand and bring them out... We cannot wait any more because Gezi ...
  June 13, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
• Turkey's Erdogan says patience run out with protesters
  By Nick Tattersall and Jonathon Burch ISTANBUL/ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday his patience had run out after almost two weeks of anti-government protests and gave a final warning to those occupying a central Istanbul park to leave. In a speech at a meeting of his Justice and Development (AK) Party, Erdogan struck back at criticism from the European ...
  June 13, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
• Patience urged as two week countdown starts for Gettysburg 150th
  York, PA - It seems success in Gettysburg for the 150th anniversary commemoration will hinge, primarily, on two things: preparedness and patience.
  June 13, 2013 - York Daily Record

Quotes

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• Mark Sanford in Charleston Post Courier
  Sanford said his wife "has been more than gracious these last six months and gone above and beyond in her patience and commitment to put the needs of others in front of her own."
• Henry Paulson in U.S. News & World Report
  The AP notes Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said yesterday that even with the rescue "program to buy bad assets from financial institutions, some banks will fail. He also called for patience saying 'the turmoil will not end quickly and significant...
• Ehud Olmert in International Herald Tribune
  Olmert said his country was nearing the goals it set itself but "more patience, determination and effort is still demanded."