Sentence examples for dignity to maintain from inspiring English sources

In other words, he has standards, and a certain amount of professional dignity to maintain.

One discovery, Dr. Feinberg said, is that there are a lot of people struggling, with a great deal of dignity, to maintain independence, often at great sacrifice.

A doctor had warned him about the laundry's dust and lint, but there were three children in college, debts to repay and dignity to maintain.

"I want the City Council to function with dignity, to maintain decorum in the council chambers and to see substantial progress in making affordable senior housing available in this city," said Holmes.

Depending on the nature of the dignity encounter, these micro, meso, and macro level social processes become ways to create dignity where it is lacking, to maintain dignity that may be fragile, to defend dignity that is under threat, or to reclaim dignity that has been lost.

Dignity is hard to maintain in a hung parliament.

South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford's wife, Jenny, issued a statement in which she says that she told him to leave their home two weeks ago "to maintain my dignity, self-respect and my basic sense of right and wrong".

There is desire for routine, to maintain dignity.

And perhaps his low-energy windup was meant to maintain dignity for Giuliani Partners.

Attendance allowance, spent as the individual so chooses, helps to maintain dignity and independence.

His willingness to fight for the paltry scrap of dignity he has managed to maintain gives me hope that I too will be able to stand tall.