sense of self-respect

collocation in English

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sense
noun
uk
/sens/us
/sens/
an ability to understand, recognize, value, or react to something, especially any of the five physical abilities to see, hear, smell, taste, ...
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self-respect
noun[U]
uk
/ˌself.rɪˈspekt/us
/ˌself.rɪˈspekt/
a feeling of respect for yourself that shows that you ...
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(Definition ofsenseandself-respectfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Asenseofself-respectis essential to dignity, but must not lead to brutish noisiness, selfcomplacency, self-pity, exhibitionism, arrogance, and the like.
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More and more young people have turned to gangs and violent crime to access money, food, clothing, and asenseofself-respect.
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In my submission, no one can get up feeling asenseofself-respectand defend them.
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Let the employee pay a reasonable rent and let him feel somesenseofself-respect.
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No one with anysenseofself-respectwill sit on them.
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We have raised ourselves by a natural process of improvement of opinion and the development of a highersenseofself-respect.
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What is much worse, he may also have lost anysenseofself-respect.
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I believe it trains young men in self-denial, in courage, and a sense of comradeship, and chiefly and above all in asenseofself-respect.
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There are cases where a family in work may be worse off but the breadwinner still goes to work out of asenseofself-respect.
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Nothing in sight at present will set them up in life with any realsenseofself-respect, security, freedom or choice.
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What it did, among many other things, was give people a realsenseofself-respectand responsibility.
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They have asenseofself-respectand self-reliance, and they do not want paternalistic aid: they would much rather they were able to develop themselves by trade.
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They lose allsenseofself-respect.
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Jobs provide people not only with an income but with theirsenseofself-respect.
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Where is our oldsenseofself-respect?
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Nobody with anysenseofself-respectwould take any trouble to do it, because the task is too simple for a serious man to apply himself to.
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In the end, his insistence upon maintaining hissenseofself-respectresults in the loss of his house.
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Acquiring new skills gave many workers asenseofself-respectand confidence, heightening expectations and desires.
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Having been raised with asenseofself-respect, he is starting to become frustrated by the effects of racism.
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