Sentence examples for offend the dignity of from inspiring English sources

Would it offend the dignity of a venerated space by opening it up to Starbucks-slurping teenagers and transitory mobs scouring DVDs?

Mr. Wallenda's announcement followed months of wrangling with officials on both sides of the waterfalls, first in New York and then in Canada, where officials initially rejected his proposal on the grounds that it would offend the dignity of the site.

Unlike America, Brazil attempts to clamp down on any campaigns that offend the "dignity" of candidates during an election.

That probably explains a whole additional level of frustration than just my own individual dignity being violated: I feel Trump and his supporters offend the dignity of the entire United States of America.

It offends the dignity of man and nature.

It added, "In doing so, it offends the dignity of persons in same-sex relationships".

Somalia's prime minister, Abdiweli Mohamed Ali, also expressed regret at Ms. Dedieu's death, calling it an inhumane act that offended the dignity of the Somali people.

"I'm sorry that these things have offended the dignity of our country, have slung mud on our country and on our government and on me personally, internationally," Mr. Berlusconi said, referring to the prosecutors.

Pope Benedict XVI, in a letter to Iraqi church leaders, called the kidnapping "an act of inhumane violence that offends the dignity of human beings and gravely damages the cause of fraternal coexistence among the blessed people of Iraq".

The unwelcome attention of the state censors was apparently attracted by sequences like the one in which Roussel imagines the Parliament populated by pretty girls in tutus, and the film's release was held up for several months on charges that it offended the dignity of the nation's elected officials.

They even want to get rid of the possessory credit, the formula by which, after all the contributions and compromises from them and from others, movies of dubious worth directed by jumped-up children can be termed "A Film by ----." They believe such vanity on the part of the director offends the dignity of the writer.