Sentence examples for upheld the dignity from inspiring English sources

The Stoics, among whom asceticism was primarily a discipline to achieve control over the promptings of the emotions, upheld the dignity of human nature and the wise man's necessary imperturbability, which they believed would become possible through the suppression of the affective, or appetitive, part of man.

In an editorial published by China Daily, Han Dongping, Professor of History and Political Science at Warren Wilson College, hailed the execution, saying that the decision "upheld the dignity of Chinese law".

We were determined to uphold the dignity of our people".

Compassion is at the centre of nursing - and a caring relationship upholds the dignity of all involved.

The government's priority, Mr. Maharaj said, was to "protect the privacy of the patient and the family" and to "uphold the dignity of the patient".

He has made few enemies and is seen as a man who could uphold the dignity of the throne while posing no challenge to Mr. Hun Sen's political dominance.

Whatever he thinks about the performance in the Kremlin of his erstwhile loyal lieutenant, Mr Medvedev, Mr Putin wants to uphold the dignity and power of the office presumably because he plans to take it back.

Whether the problem is "ethnic cleansing" or poverty, he said, "What begins with the failure to uphold the dignity of one life all too often ends with a calamity for entire nations".

My non-extensive research shows that it was once awarded to Dario Fo, who according to the Nobel judges "emulates the jesters of the Middle Ages in scourging authority and upholding the dignity of the downtrodden".

Tahir Shah's latest book, Travels with Myself (Mosaïque Books, £11.99), is out next month Exterminate All the Brutes, by Sven Lindqvist This book inspires by upholding the dignity of the travel genre.

If that strikes you as a wimpish take on the old Philip Marlowe rule — that somebody should make the effort to uphold the dignity of others, one's own dignity having been poured down the sink — then you'd be right.