Sentence examples for sufficient dignity from inspiring English sources

One, certainly, is trying to capture the reader's attention, or, in other words, to find a subject of sufficient dignity and importance and universality to write a great novel about it.

230 Velleman similarly maintains that pain and suffering are not sufficient dignity-related reasons for legalizing assisted dying.

It is worth noting that this objection does not presuppose any particular amount of dignity-grounding capacities as being necessary or sufficient for human dignity.

Even if you are one of those lucky enough to secure employment there is little guarantee of dignity, sufficient pay, or even work.

If they are right, that simply points up the importance of individuals being able to decide autonomously for themselves whether their own lives retain sufficient quality and dignity to make life worth living.

Doubtless the trick is to combine dignity with sufficient humour to undermine it whenever staidness threatens.

Although the Act is rarely used, this would suggest that the sensibilities of others can be held to be valid grounds for over-riding the autonomy of an individual, whose actions or behaviour may be thought to lack dignity, given sufficient risk or nuisance to others.

If the dignity-grounding capacities of a human infant are sufficient to give it human dignity, then the many non-human animals with the same or greater degree of dignity-grounding capacities have human dignity as well.

Alternatively, if a chimpanzee's lack of dignity-grounding capacities is sufficient to imply that it does not have human dignity, then the even more meager dignity-grounding capacities of a human infant are also sufficient to imply that it does not have human dignity.

But research that confers the physical capacities sufficient for the possession of the dignity-grounding capacities ipso facto confers the dignity-grounding capacities themselves, in which case the research has not diminished or eliminated the dignity-grounding capacities of the animal research subject.

Democratic mechanisms are not, in themselves, sufficient to guarantee a life of dignity.