loss of dignity
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflossanddignity
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loss
noun
uk/lɒs/us/lɑːs/
the fact that you no longer have something or have less ...
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dignity
noun[U]
uk/ˈdɪɡ.nə.ti/us/ˈdɪɡ.ə.t̬i/
calm, serious, and controlled behaviour that makes people ...
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(Definition oflossanddignityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The nation's most representative assembly is thus also the most remote from the public: this remoteness could be diminished withoutlossofdignity.
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I do not think that the officers suffer anylossofdignityby the change.
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I know what it means—the distress, thelossofdignityfor the men and the pain and suffering for the wives and children.
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That means an enormous waste of human resources, an enormouslossofdignityto those who are on the dole, and social and family tensions.
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Why should we impose all thislossofdignityon the older people in the community?
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In this context, the lack of direct benefit to the patient provides no counterweight to thelossofdignityincurred.
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Again, this leads inevitably to alossofdignity.
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But it also protested against a resilient employer that failed to respond to long-standing grievances andlossofdignity.
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Why, then, should there be any peculiarlossofdignityaccruing to the fact of contradicting and being contradicted in court?
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Other constructs that are moderately high are the impact of the illness on intimacy, and worries aboutlossofdignity.
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How will thislossofdignitybe established and by whom?
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Rather, this author argues instead that the "harm" occurs precisely because there is alossofdignity.
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Yet, this position is only defensible if one does not accept that thelossofdignityis in itself harm.
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One could, for instance, determine a list of crimes that result in alossofdignity.
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Requests to forgo treatment were related to general weakness, whereaslossofdignitywas a major reason for requests to hasten death.
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Similarly, the danger of monumentalism invited by such an expansive canvas is undermined by a ready sense of humour, with nolossofdignity.
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Once we accept this, a failure to gain this consent will inescapably result in alossofdignityto that person as she is not being treated with respect.
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To remove any of those rights from a person entails a lack of respect for that person as an individual, which, in turn, leads to alossofdignity.
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The critically ill patient hooked up to pumps, catheters, and respirators has become an image not only of the loss of control but also of thelossofdignity.
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Independent of the perpetrator'slossofdignity, we listed five criteria with which the state official has to comply in order to remain virtuous with regard to the case handling.
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Poverty is also the state of mind associated withlossofdignityand humiliation.
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Unemployment, even in small pockets, brings alossofdignityand suffering to the whole family.
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It is about rights and relationships; about how people are treated and how they regard themselves; about powerlessness, exclusion andlossofdignity.
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Withoutlossofdignityhe could converse with all sorts and conditions of people.
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I want to speak specifically about the cost inlossofdignitywhen people obtain supplementary benefit.
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