Sentence examples for residual dignity from inspiring English sources

"If this is to remain a system of limited and enumerated federal powers that respects individual liberty, accountability and the residual dignity and sovereignty of the states, the individual mandate cannot stand".

And yet in our era of pay cuts and job insecurity, how delightful to read about this doomed bunch of chippy, Highland slackers: "There was a residual dignity about them: they believed in workers' rights, in workers of the world unite.

Roberts really thrums the states'-rights banjo at moments: he extols the "integrity, dignity, and residual sovereignty of the States," and opines that "the constitutional equality of the States is essential to the harmonious operation of the scheme upon which the Republic was founded".

The example of Pinter's stalwart opposition to what he termed "the modes of thinking of those in power"—the "brick wall" of the "minds" perpetuating the "status quo" —infused the "vast political pessimism" that some academic critics may perceive in his artistic work, its "drowning landscape" of harsh contemporary realities, with some residual "hope for restoring the dignity of man".

This residual Romanticism gives surprising pathos and dignity to the Dong's ode.

(Perhaps such work was around then, too; Powers might just have had too much dignity, or too much residual Detachment, to try it).

When this proved ineffective, he spoke out publicly against Mugabe in 2007, asking him to step down "with residual respect and a modicum of dignity".

"Dignity, always dignity.

His dignity.

For dignity".

Your dignity?