Sentence examples for undermining dignity from inspiring English sources

'Being forgetful' and 'A changed appearance' were regarded and accepted as belonging to the ageing process and therefore not undermining dignity ("Yes I have more wrinkles, grey hair and I forget things occasionally, but may I? I'm 82 years old!").

This simple depiction of the way poverty can undermine dignity is heartbreaking.

To provide the long-term care setting with a feasible instrument, we therefore only focused on the factors that undermine dignity, as they are more relevant for practice.

This analysis revealed that some symptoms or experiences, although present in a resident's life, did not undermine dignity because the resident was satisfied with the way it was.

Each item of the MIDAM-LTC can be considered a causal indicator, meaning that items are not expected to correlate with each other, and that even a single symptom or experience may suffice to undermine dignity, while a low sense of dignity need not necessarily imply that someone suffers from all the symptoms listed [ 35, 36].

The items 'Receiving little time from nurses' and 'A lot of different nurses' hardly undermined dignity, because residents ascribed the presence of both items to the circumstances rather than to nurses' unwillingness ("They are terribly busy because of the lack of staff. If I really need them, they will make time for me").

We hereby reasoned that an item could not undermine dignity if not present in a resident's life - a non-affirmative answer on the first question - and scored it accordingly on the second question (score 1 on the 5-point scale).

It seemed to some that he was undermining human dignity.

Some fret that Mr Sarkozy is undermining the dignity of his office.

The church was not impressed and criticised him for "undermining the dignity of the ministry".

"I'm appalled that you would begin a presidential debate on a topic like that," ssaid Mr. Gingrich, pummeling Mr. King for undermining the dignity of the event.