Sentence examples for retain the dignity from inspiring English sources

"I wanted to reassure them that we would make every effort to identify their loved ones, and that I would see to it that this site would retain the dignity and respect that it deserves," Mr. Miller said.

The states "retain the dignity, though not the full authority, of sovereignty," he writes.Jack Rakove, an historian at Stanford University and the author of "Original Meanings" (Knopf, $35), a Pulitzer-prize-winning account of the drafting of the constitution, dismisses Justice Kennedy's historical argument as "strained, even silly".

So Francis is, of course, entirely misguided in his remarks on smacking for today's Europe – how do you retain the dignity of a child while smacking him or her; how could he possibly think it is OK provided it doesn't involve blows to the face?

Unsworth has only half achieved this; some of his characters retain the dignity and exotic otherness of their epic past, while others are redrawn as thoroughly modern creations, with the result that there is a lack of conviction in the comedy of the deliberate anachronisms in speech or thought.

And while I try to justify my work by elaborating on my "pure" intentions and my heartfelt efforts to retain the dignity of the people I film in my story, the reality is, making films about women and girls in Africa, as a non-African, usually means focusing my camera on the suffering, the struggles and the challenges facing African people.

"Retaining the dignity of the university is our priority," said the source.

But when every desire can be turned into a legal right nothing retains the dignity of right.

Ms. Carpenter, in the premiere and in later episodes in which she introduces others' stories, turns up just often enough to make sure that "Surviving Evil" retains the dignity these victims deserve.

These figures, while retaining the dignity and monumentality of their predecessors, have individualized faces and figures, as well as full, flowing draperies and natural poses and gestures, and they display a classical poise that suggests an awareness of antique Roman models on the part of their creators.

She has said and done things in the past four days which have impressed all but the most extreme Irish republicans, whilst at the same time retaining the dignity of her position as Britain's head of state.

So because we both recoil from this slightly sickly element of it, I think we may have to retain the quiet dignity of a stuffed moose, as Bertie says of Jeeves.