So it should be obvious that maintaining the status quo is intolerable.

We went through the obvious names. This friend is more likely to get kidnapped because he has values, and would not remain quiet in the face of injustice.

How can responsible governments simply look away when innocent people are being killed in large numbers? Tolerating genocide is intolerable.

Another friend's chances of disappearing are bigger because he is clean, and enjoys the support of the other rebels, who trusted what he said. He's also armed and therefore poses a threat to the ISIS.

Is not that kind of improper and unethical behaviour a shame? It is a shame that, for the sake of preserving the dignity of all Member States, we can tolerate no longer.

Both arrangements will eventually become untenable, because they will generate either an intolerable rate of inflation or an unsustainable burden of public sector debt.

A total of 245 million children go to work instead of to school, with some performing the most intolerable forms of labour, robbing them of any future and firmly entrenching them in a poverty trap.

So it should be obvious that maintaining the status quo is intolerable. Moreover, there is the real risk of proliferation, especially in the Middle East, multiplying the dangers that nuclear weapons will be used by accident or miscalculation as well as design.

In an interview published in 2008 in the Church of Scotland s magazine Life and Work, she supported the right of those suffering intolerably to end their lives. If somebody absolutely, desperately wants to die because they re a burden to their family, or the state, she argued, then I think they too should be allowed to die.