Sentence examples for concept of human dignity from inspiring English sources

To deny this mother in the circumstances of this case the right to speak out – and, I emphasise, to speak out, if this is her wish, using her own name and displaying her own image – would be affront not merely to the law but also, surely, to any remotely acceptable concept of human dignity and, indeed, humanity itself".

Some have identified the concept of "human dignity" as the link between all these situations.

The prisoner case was about how extreme overcrowding in the penal system has led to inadequate medical care, which Kennedy called "incompatible with the concept of human dignity".

In a 70-page report, sprinkled with references to Kant's concept of human dignity, a commission of lawyers and curators recommended that institutions study provenance systematically and return remains that had been collected as part of a violent conflict.

"A prison that deprives prisoners of basic sustenance, including adequate medical care, is incompatible with the concept of human dignity and has no place in civilized society," Justice Kennedy wrote on Monday.

Hunger is a violation of human rights, and human rights are built on the concept of human dignity.

He called this a "jurisprudence of original intention," and contrasted it with the "misuse of history" by jurists who saw, in the Constitution's "spirit," things like "concepts of human dignity," with which they had turned the Constitution into a "charter for judicial activism".

Justices Kennedy, Breyer and Ginsburg have all defended the use of foreign and international law, noting that it is neither binding nor determinative in the cases they hear, but merely informative, particularly on universal concepts like the meaning of "human dignity".

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"It's a question of human dignity," he said.

"It's an affirmation of human dignity," he says.