The phrase "gain dignity" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means to acquire or achieve a higher level of respect, honor, or self-worth. Example: After years of hard work and perseverance, she was able to gain dignity and recognition in her field as a successful businesswoman.
By a 53percentto40percentcent margin, respondents with a household income of more than $100,000 said that people working in low-wage jobs that don't cover their expenses do gain dignity simply by virtue of working.
Only 30percentt of Americans said they think people working in low-wage jobs that don't pay enough for basic expenses gain dignity from those jobs simply by virtue of working.
Of all the programs designed to enable prisoners to gain dignity and a sense of purpose while incarcerated, and prepare them to become effectively functioning citizens when released so that they are not recidivists, I know of none that do these jobs better than the Community Model in Corrections developed by the Center for Therapeutic Justice.
Paul Bhattacharjee's gangly, greying Benedick seems nice enough, gaining dignity when this comic romance darkens.
In doing so, she gains dignity".
Africa's people must be allowed to gain confidence, dignity, and a sense of self-worth.
The moral reason is simple: What could be closer to the hearts of Jews than the sight of peoples fighting to throw off oppression and gain their dignity and freedom?
But if fighting for the rights of farm workers to gain respect, dignity, and a better life makes some people think of him as a saint, then all those who fought by his side should be considered saints, too.
It does not even gain the dignity of "legislating from the bench"; it was a shamefully partisan, profoundly undemocratic act undertaken by a court that has drifted only further to the right with the appointments of John G. Roberts Jr. and Samuel A. Alito Jr.
He lived long enough to see Arabs from Tunisia to Egypt to Yemen to Syria rise up peacefully to gain the dignity, justice and self-rule that Bin Laden claimed could be obtained only by murderous violence and a return to puritanical Islam.
