"dignity" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- 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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