Sentence examples for historic dignity from inspiring English sources

Baghdad, which led the world for five centuries during the reign of the Abbasid empire, regarded the occupation an insult to their historic dignity and national pride.

If you want to taste primitive Third Kindism, try vagabond art institutions you might otherwise ignore: the National Museum of Women's History; the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art; the Fairy Art Museum in Japan (chocked with venerable tales); the (virtual) World Museum of Erotic Art; the Sulabh Museum of Toilets in India, where the vintage pot at last gains historic dignity.

If the common theme of the Arab uprisings was the desire for dignity, Tunisia's historic election showed what that could look like.

In Burke's grim vision, there's a classic unity to all this unsavory stuff, once you trace the wholesale disregard for human life and dignity to its historic roots on the plantations of greedy slave owners and in hellholes like the Angola penitentiary, the last known residence of a legendary R & B guitarist named Junior Crudup.

A story of pride and dignity central to our historic identity; it gave us meaning.

For over fifty years, Mr. Sondheimer demonstrated an unwavering commitment to Selfhelp's historic mission of supporting life with dignity to survivors of the Holocaust.

But their historic Democratic dialogue on race deserves the dignity of historical accuracy and intellectual honesty.

Members of the U.S. branch of Sisters of Mercy, a religious order of Catholic women, released a statement decrying the decision as a "historic injustice and a violation of the human dignity of over 800,000 young people".

From an Iranian point of view, it is vital that respect and dignity be shown to them, their nation and historic greatness, in return for what they see as an act of self-denial.

With the exception of Henry Kissinger, all the historic players in the drama are treated seriously and given a dignity that allows for plenty of humor and absurdity.

I didn't want to get back together, but, seeking to be the historic preservationist of my own life, I wanted to restore the dignity of the narrative.