He seems to find time to play the fastest of bowling and still retain dignity, something near majesty, as he does it".
We are talking, of course, of Olympique Lyonnais, the club that until recently dominated French football and regularly troubled Europe's giants but now find themselves struggling to retain dignity amid inevitable downsizing.
He also said he had requested an extension to the bailout, saying "I am awaiting their immediate response to a fundamental request of democracy" Tsipras has asked the Greek people to retain "dignity" during the financial turmoil in order to "send a message of hope and pride to all Europe".
Residents of northwestern Pakistan grew increasingly ambivalent, if not outright hostile, toward the Taliban, although the religious militants retained dignity in the eyes of many other Pakistanis who supported their bid to implement sharia in the Swat Valley.
"Our ageing population means that there is an enormous increase in demand for council-run adult social services, which must be met to ensure people retain dignity as they get older.
His biographer, Ed Sikov, notes that because of this retained dignity, Sellers is "the master of playing men who have no idea how ridiculous they are".
This combination of "high" and "low", exemplified by Clouseau's attempting to retain dignity after a fall, means that within the film Clouseau was "the sole representative of humanity".
Families devised strategies to gain agreement in order to ensure that the person with dementia retained dignity.
Even with the legal authority to make and enforce decisions for the person without capacity, in practice families nearly always need to gain agreement to ensure that the person with dementia retains dignity.
17 18 From the patient's perspective, chronic illness is a unique personal experience which may involve pain, disability, loss of status, reduced income and a heroic struggle to retain dignity, rebuild identity and live a moral life in the face of adversity.
