It's unprecedented for a court with a long history of expanding rights to reduce dignity, not protect it," said Gautham Bhan, a prominent gay activist.
An Italian qualitative survey, which explored the meaning of dignity and the related variables in a hospital setting, highlighted 3 main components that favored or reduced dignity: "factors related to the patient, to the physical environment or to the hospital staff" [ 35].
Dignity therapy is based on a theoretical model of dignity in the terminally ill [ 3] and its purpose is to reduce dignity-related distress while enhancing hope and meaning [ 4].
"By calling out this picture of poverty in terms of streets and buildings and not the humans who live here, have you not reduced their dignity?
To slap on a diagnosis and prescribe a pill would be to reduce the dignity of the life lost and the broken heart left behind.
In truth, I refused an interview because the article would distort the life, and hence reduce the dignity, of this animal.
The American people idolized Washington, and he played his part artfully, striking a balance between "too free an intercourse and too much familiarity," which would reduce the dignity of the office, and "an ostentatious show" of aloofness, which would be improper in a republic.
Many companies reduce the dignity of women to sell more cars, shoes, and cheeseburgers (ahem, Carl's Jr).. Society has made strides since the day my grandmother was gracefully canned for being pregnant.
In his homily last November, Archbishop Weakland said that "we Catholics" had acted "contrary to God's law" in dealings with Jews in the past, that the Jewish community was harmed as a result, and that by preaching "that the Jewish people were unfaithful, hypocritical and God-killers," Catholics had reduced Jews' human dignity.
Torture eviscerates human dignity because it reduces the one tortured to a thing, a means to an end.
