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How to pronounce sufferance
“sufferance” pronunciation in American and British English
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“sufferance” in real sentences
13 clips in the index · 2 American · 1 British. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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that power elsewhere is held on sufferance, at Westminster’s grace and favour.
The Scottish Parliament
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but remember you survive on my sufferance you are not the cleanser in waiting the news
DOOM WAD World
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reading builds on the sharing of a common sufferance the community being built and the biblical
Université Bordeaux Montaigne
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bonded under the international law of the sea which is practiced under the sufferance of the
LAW- ACADEMIC VIDEOS
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