It was early afternoon and though the temperatures weren't intolerably high, the air sucked the moisture from their skin.

"It's either that the tax rate is intolerably high, or we're going to do away with equipment and services that have always been there."

That distortion would extract an intolerably high price, vitiating the new immigration law even before it goes into effect.

The city's dropout rate is intolerably high: Fewer than half of its high school students earn a degree within four years.

He said that last year many of his aides handled 150 felony drug cases each, which he called "an unacceptable and intolerably high level."

They have also promised to bring the city's industrial activity to a halt if pollution levels become intolerably high.

"We have an intolerably high accident rate and we're trying to address that."

The ratio of conjecture to evidence had become intolerably high.

In many European countries, unemployment is at intolerably high levels.

The cost of continuing to fight seems intolerably high.