Some states (such as Pennsylvania) have official tolerances.
But this official tolerance is uneven and unpredictable.
Despite such critics, in the last two years rock has percolated up from the underground and found official tolerance, if not affection.
Critics of the Government call the official tolerance of a political opposition a whitewash.
And official tolerance of his misbehavior, if it ever existed, has hardly expanded in the fearful post-9/11 age.
Spring demonstrations, always a threat in a country with little official tolerance for any form of perceived instability, are expected to be more severe than normal.
Thus any attempt to curtail its activities has broader implications for official tolerance of independent political activity.
Since the 1990s there have been cases of increasing official tolerance in various regions of house churches.
The presence of such people in the ranks is at times offered as explanation for a degree of official tolerance.
At this time, the Dutch government introduced unprecedented legislation based on a policy of official tolerance (gedoogbeleid).