Sentence examples for proper pride from inspiring English sources

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"We didn't miss a single order," our section manager tells us with proper pride.

But at least there were real war veterans, marching in long lines down the cathedral aisle, with military gait and proper pride.

That is due in no small measure to a version of Williams's 1959 script by the English playwright James Graham ("This House") that very deliberately gives proper pride of place to Chance as arguably the dreamiest and the most doomed of this dramatist's parade of young men who are glimpsed in flight from themselves.

Breakfast, £3.50-£8, lighter dishes from £6, mains from £8. 43 Clarence Drive, 0141-341 6633, thehyndlandfOnecofuk One of those new wavers taking proper pride in what it does (frying to order, homemade pies and sauces), Old Salty's is a shade expensive by chip shop standards, but worth every penny.

But pride can also be a claim to and celebration of a status worth or to equality with others, especially other groups (for example, Black Pride), which is interpersonal recognition self-respect; and pride can be "proper pride," a sense of one's dignity that prevents one from doing what is unworthy, and in this sense it is the agentic dimension of recognition self-respect.

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Rather than regarding the Beatles as a proper source of local pride, he associates them with a decline in popular culture.

That view was strongly disputed by Mr. Kozlowski and by Tyco's chief financial officer, Mark H. Swartz, who said the company's accounting was proper and who took pride that an investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission in 2000 produced accounting changes they viewed as minor.

After acknowledging the proper limitations on British pride in its long-cherished liberties - these being the racism of its colonial policies and its oppressive domestic class structure - he said that he was not afraid of Oswald Mosley's black-shirted fascists, but instead of what he called "fabio-fascism".

Considering I much prefer a proper ring, à la PRIDE or DREAM, to a cage, well, I'm happy to see proper rings make an appearance.

He told diplomats from nearly 180 countries that the education of children needed proper "settings" and that "pride of place goes to the family, based on the marriage of a man and a woman".

He avoided too … the proper praise due his glorious actions, his bravery and dash, without ostentation or pride, his coolness and able management; and above all, the care of his men endeared him to all".

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