Sentence examples similar to affront to one's dignity from inspiring English sources

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It was an affront to Madiba's dignity.

It was an affront to Madiba's dignity". "People should die a decent death," he continues.

I would think it more an affront to someone's dignity to be sued by a brother than to be sued by a stranger".

It was a certain affront to Mahatma Gandhi's dignity which the apartheid regime delivered, which ignited India's freedom movement in a big way.

Part of the sadness of the letter's decline is exactly that sort of affront to the form's dignity.

What was worse than his wages, he said in a phone interview through a translator, was the affront to the family's dignity.

The Yugoslav prime minister and his cabinet resigned today over the transfer of Mr. Milosevic, calling the handling of the case an affront to the country's dignity.

However the bans were upheld on appeal... on the grounds that "dwarf tossing… affronted human dignity…" The dwarf then brought his complaint to the UN... he stated "that there is no work for dwarves in France and that his job does not constitute an affront to human dignity since dignity consists in having a job".

But it did result in the addition of a court-ordered label to the packaging with the title "Judicial Injunction" and a warning that sticking needles into the doll is an affront to Mr. Sarkozy's dignity.

And the problem is all the more striking when the wrong involves a serious affront to the victim's dignity.

In Cur Deus Homo (Why God Became A Human Being) Anselm famously attempts to show on purely rational grounds that the debt incurred by human sin could be suitably discharged, and the affront to God's infinite dignity could be suitably rectified, only if one who was both fully divine and fully human took it upon himself to offer his own life on our behalf.

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