Sentence examples for diminished dignity from inspiring English sources

At the start of the course, the young women's self-perceptions were characterised by feelings of anxiety, uselessness, and diminished dignity.

When the Defense of Marriage Act crumbles and our committed relationships aren't relegated to a lesser status, a diminished dignity.

They remember that many people used to feel connected to an enchanted, transcendent order, but they feel trapped in a flat landscape, with diminished dignity: Is this all there is?

"Begging for acknowledgement, or even asking, diminishes dignity and diminishes power.

Jada Pinkett Smith to boycott Oscars: 'Begging for acknowledgement... diminishes dignity'.

As respect for the uniqueness of life and each life diminishes, dignity and our humanity erodes in the collective consciousness in step with the cultural foundation.

What promotes and diminishes dignity?

Any plausible account, therefore, of what promotes and diminishes dignity in practice should be grounded in theoretical accounts of dignity and ageing from philosophy and sociology, together with the analysis of empirical data.

This appears to be unfortunate and inappropriate terminology given the potential of these issues to diminish dignity for service users, as the two items were: 1. Language barriers between care staff and service users – Responses pointed to difficulties in communication and cultural differences in care.

So much of what has been done in Haiti has disempowered Haitians and diminished their dignity by doing for them what they could have done for themselves.

In the face of the most recent economic crisis, the now former ILO's Director General, Juan Somavia denounced the "structural imbalances of the current model of globalization….a model that during the last three decades has overvalued the role of the market, devalued the role of government, and diminished the dignity of work and respect for the environment" [ 9].