Sentence examples for dignified part from inspiring English sources

If the royals seem ordinary, the dignified part of the constitution could be doomed.

As Walter Bagehot said: it's the dignified part of the constitution.

Even the least dignified part of his daily routine, when an aide has to push on his stomach to help him empty his bowels - well, "everybody just does it efficiently and proficiently.

This role has been recognised since the 19th century; the constitutional writer Walter Bagehot identified the monarchy in 1867 as the "dignified part" rather than the "efficient part" of government.

It's with a soft "g", as in badger).Both men saw the monarchy as embodying the "dignified" parts of the state, conveying serene continuity while politicians squabble.

Walter Bagehot, the Victorian editor of The Economist after whom this column is named, made a distinction between the efficient and the dignified parts of government.

Yet despite the more dignified name, parts of the neighborhood -- within the shadow of the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center -- have retained a blue-collar character.

I suspect that most parents assume the pledge has a long and dignified past, that it's part of the American fabric, and are therefore willing to leave it unchallenged.

As Mr. Cohen tried to head off chaos -- at one point, he wrapped his arms around the same woman in a bear-hug restraint -- he somehow managed to look inexplicably dignified, despite the part he played in creating that moment of trash television.

RARELY can the original Bagehot's observation about the "dignified" and "efficient" parts of the constitution have seemed more apposite.

Walter Bagehot in 1867 described how the British constitution was divided into dignified and efficient parts, but now the dignified area has extended to many of the doings of Parliament, of embassies and of the boards of big companies.