"dignity" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

dignity sustantivo

verbo + dignity
Kolokacji: 24
maintain one's dignity • give dignity • treat with dignity • preserve one's dignity • say with dignity • ...
adjetivo + dignity
Kolokacji: 45
human dignity • great dignity • quiet dignity • personal dignity • certain dignity • ...
preposición + dignity
Kolokacji: 11
with dignity • of dignity • for dignity • in dignity • on one's dignity • ...
(1) with, of, for, in, on, ...
Kolokacji: 11
5. on one's dignity = na czyjś godność on one's dignity
6. beneath one's dignity = poniżej czyjejś godności beneath one's dignity
8. about dignity = o godności about dignity
9. without dignity = bez godności without dignity
10. against dignity = przeciwko godności against dignity
11. upon dignity = na godności upon dignity
  • What does that mean, outrages upon human dignity ?
  • Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions bars, among other things, "outrages upon personal dignity, in particular, humiliating and degrading treatment."
  • "Outrages upon personal dignity is something like Abu Ghraib or parading our soldiers in Vietnam before the television cameras," he said.
  • It was also mentioned in the 1949 Geneva Conventions (but demurely, as an "outrage upon personal dignity" in civil wars).
  • And their impersonal detachment, their very disregard of us, was like a chilly blast upon human dignity.
  • Beatrice knew this was the truth, so she fell back upon dignity.
  • However, the judges did not find that there was sufficient evidence to try him for torture and outrages upon personal dignity.
  • It prohibits murder, hostage-taking, "outrages upon personal dignity" and extrajudicial executions.
  • That provision bars, among other practices, "outrages upon personal dignity, in particular, humiliating and degrading treatment."
  • Common Article 3 prohibits "outrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment" of detainees.

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