(n.) The state of being worthy or honorable; elevation of mind or character; true worth; excellence.
(n.) Elevation; grandeur.
(n.) Elevated rank; honorable station; high office, political or ecclesiastical; degree of excellence; preferment; exaltation.
(n.) Quality suited to inspire respect or reverence; loftiness and grace; impressiveness; stateliness; -- said of //en, manner, style, etc.
(n.) One holding high rank; a dignitary.
(n.) Fundamental principle; axiom; maxim.
Example Sentences:
(1) The values of human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and the respect for human rights are absolutely fundamental to the European Union.
(2) All the personality, dignity and humanity of a person are devastated by this torture.
(3) Но поразительно, что ((аристос)) и партию human dignity в сегодняшней России представляет не фигура солженицынского или манделовского типа, а бывший миллиардер.
(4) He chose to be a man, not an artist, in this painting, and to claim no dignity except that which everyone deserves.
(5) And I believe that America holds within her the truth that regardless of race, religion, or station in life, all of us share common aspirations – to live in peace and security; to get an education and to work with dignity; to love our families, our communities, and our God.
(6) From 1985 to June 1989 diagnostic tumour resections have been performed on 37 kidney tumours with unknown dignity following the preoperative imaging techniques.
(7) They’re angry because they can’t afford to send their kids to college so they can’t retire with dignity.” One of the signs that voters still lack confidence in the US job market is the labor participation rate, which in 2015 reached its lowest point in 38 years.
(8) Through small and large acts of deprivation and destruction we follow the process: the removal of hope, of dignity, of luxury, of necessity, of self; the reduction of a man to a hoarder of grey slabs of bread and the scrapings of a soup bowl (wonderfully told all this, with a novelist's gift for detail and sometimes very nearly comic surprise), to the confinement of a narrow bed – in which there is "not even any room to be afraid" – with a stranger who doesn't speak your language, to the cruel illogicality of hating a fellow victim of oppression more than you hate the oppressor himself – one torment following another, and even the bleak comfort of thinking you might have touched rock bottom denied you as, when the most immediate cause of a particular stress comes to an end, "you are grievously amazed to see that another one lies behind; and in reality a whole series of others".
(9) "It was not just about toppling the old regime but about building a state where people can have freedom, dignity, rule of law and social justice."
(10) Indonesia’s largest Muslim group, Nahdlatul Ulama, in February described gay lifestyles as perverted and a desecration of human dignity.
(11) The democratically elected usually manage to leave with some dignity intact – even if in Britain the removal is often criticised for its humiliating haste.
(12) In this retrospective study the findings of visual acuity, visual field and papillae of 204 patients operated on the cerebrum were determined and the significance of the morphological factors (position and size of the defect of the cerebral parenchyma, extent of the cerebral ventricles, degree of the cortical atrophy, influence of dignity) for the persisting ophthalmological deficiency phenomena was pointed out.
(13) My hope is that those who are at the Games take these words and let them echo, with grace, courage and dignity, in whatever way they choose to, because it will make a difference to those participating, and to those watching.
(14) The analysis shows that the core of nursing can be described as helping the patients either to manage their daily living or to die with dignity, and it consists of three stages which continually interact.
(15) From campaigner to prisoner to President to global hero, Nelson Mandela will always be remembered for his dignity, integrity and his values of equality and justice.
(16) For here we see the depravity to which man can sink, the barbarity that unfolds when we begin to see our fellow human beings as somehow less than us, less worthy of dignity and life; we see how evil can, for a moment in time, triumph when good people do nothing."
(17) After suffering a severe form of ME which left her bedridden and unable to speak or feed herself for all of her adolescent and adult life, she had decided she was never going to recover, and wanted to ensure her life would end before total degeneration robbed her of all dignity.
(18) Palliative care must be based on a philosophy that acknowledges the inherent worth and dignity of each person.
(19) They’d certainly believe that they had stolen this woman’s dignity.
(20) Having started out preening (he tells a former colleague that he lives "the life of Riley"), he ends up howling alone on a small rock, the decision to adorn himself with a beautiful young wife having stolen his stature, robbed him of his dignity.
Headship
Definition:
(n.) Authority or dignity; chief place.
Example Sentences:
(1) Vic Goddard, principal of Passmores academy in neighbouring Essex, the school featured in the TV series Educating Essex, who recently published a book about the joys of headship, The Best Job In The World, says the document spells out what is going on across the country.
(2) His reputation as a transformative school leader was founded in large part on his headship of the Mossbourne academy in east London.
(3) Far from being unsuited to headships, he says, PE teachers are among the first to put themselves forward.
(4) He got most of his jobs at ridiculously early ages: a deputy headship at 26, a headship at 29, chief executive at 36.
(5) His first headship was at St Bonaventure's Roman Catholic school in Newham, which he transformed from a struggling school into an outstanding one.
(6) Sir Anthony Seldon, vice-chancellor, University of Buckingham First is the promise to set up a national headship college that trains school leaders, because that’s the most important problem in education at the moment – the quality of leadership.
(7) A much-sought-after teacher of invaluable experience is appointed by a Scottish local authority to a small rural school that would have had to close if Mr MacIsaac hadn't been available to take up the headship.
(8) The analysis is based on data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and uses event-history analysis to estimate transitions into female headship and economic dependence.
(9) Recent trends in rates of household headship and headship differentials by sex and color are examined within the context of a model that expresses the likelihood of heading an independent household as a function of age, marital status, parental status, and individual money income.
(10) The school's headteacher Lindsey Snowdon, who co-founded the school with her husband Andrew, resigned in October after a follow-up Ofsted inspection failed to find any improvement and reported: "It is essential that a credible professional is appointed to the headship without delay."
(11) She then became deputy head at her old school before putting her name forward for the Cheltenham headship.
(12) The conferring of state headship is an exclusive Anglican ritual, steeped in the Henrician Reformation.
(13) And Sherry Zand, who was appointed to lead IES Breckland School in Brandon, Suffolk, which was rated inadequate this month , despite never having had experience of deputy headship, left after just one year.
(14) I should feel excitement that 18 months of relentless planning is about to become a reality; that I am embarking on my first year of headship.
(15) The heir to the throne rules nothing, being heir only to titular headship of state.
(16) His first headship was at St Bonaventure's, a boys' Catholic school in Newham, east London.
(17) Most governors only recruit a head once.” He says about 75% of headship vacancies posted at the right time of the year are still filled through advertising.
(18) Half are jobs that will not be advertised when people leave, including two assistant headships; the other half will be redundancies including a teacher, reading assistants for primary children, a family link worker, an education welfare officer and a full-time counsellor whom Gardiner employed to support the mental health of vulnerable pupils.
(19) Headteacher Leslie Church said recent events had played a part in his decision to resign: "I truly believe that the school is entering a new phase, whether we agree with it or not, and I too want to embark on a new stage in my career after 25 years of headship."
(20) Nothing, not even the NPQH (National Professional Qualification for Headship), really prepared me for the daily acts of courage I see taken by my students.