Sentences with word «undignified»

The same goes for housing, where cobbled - together shantytowns make for dangerous, undignified places to live in many developing countries.
It is difficult, however, to see how the quarantining of 100 % of welfare entitlements can be characterised as an adapted and appropriate response, given the impact that benefits are being provided in a form that is onerous and potentially undignified.
With this in mind, we're bestowing the undignified Gynotician of the week «award» on Governor John Kasich.
K «has an undignified enough life without the added indignity of menstruation.
Thus, Fetman's undignified advertising sends a message about the general legal profession.
Mostyn J criticises both parties for their delay over «earning capacity» — which was «undignified and costs consumptive».
I award $ 85,000 for general damages, of which $ 25,000 is allotted to take account of the aggravated features of the case — I agree with the plaintiff that the damages ought to be significantly increased in response to the defendant's thoroughly undignified and humiliating actions.
When money is at stake, or relationships with children, it can be all too easy to engage in unproductive, undignified arguments that diminish you on a personal level.
For a great number of lawyers steeped in the traditions of the profession, such tactics carry the distinctly unpleasant whiff of the smarmy and undignified.
Do you find it undignified for the legal profession?
Or whether anyone has tried reporting these fake ads to the state bars (which I can only imagine are going crazy over all of this undignified advertising that is presumably beyond the scope of the bars» jurisdiction).
«Bankers and engineers advertise, and yet these professions are not regarded as undignified
Maine's Bureau of Liquor Enforcement banned the sales of «Santa's Butt Winter Porter» and two other beers whose labels were deemed «undignified or improper.»
«As with all bar regulation, the rules sound benign enough in practice — protecting consumers from deceptive practices and preventing lawyers from acting like undignified hucksters.
While reading the Simple Justice blog today (it must have been an old post as I know I wrote a fond «Farewell to «Simple Justice» and Scott Greenfield» post back in February 2012 when Simple Justice shut down), I saw two references to young lawyers who tried placing free ads on Craigslist but ultimately rejected this business development tactic as undignified.
QPLegalEze always struck me as an undignified brand name, and an incongruous abuse of syntax in an annoying, rather than clever, way.
Ignore the undignified, fact - free rants from unrealistic, uninformed dogma enforcers.
«Anyone who shirks the topic as repugnant, minimizes it as undignified, or considers unworthy those in need should let others take over for the sake of 1.5 million children and countless others killed each year by contaminated water and unhealthy sanitation.»
This undignified ending of international negotiations looked like an heroic gesture: exhausted officials and environmental activists trying desperately to prevent the Armageddon that looms over us.
If you examine the penultimate emails in Climategate I, you will encounter a raft of messages set off by BBC's Paul Hudson's questions about the pause that include Trenberth's «travesty» email and an undignified outburst from Stephen Schneider.
To get here we must endure various lengthy crawls, climbs and other undignified ambulations.
However, a look at Berlin and the undignified wrangling over the Humboldt Forum (its new institution set to open in 2019) with a jungle of competing and contradicting competencies, dependencies and responsibilities proves that, in Germany at least, even the capital is provincial.
«Balindile I» by young rising South African star Nicholas Hlobo is a long phallic hosepipe sculpted out of inner tubes which grow into a rubbery plant slumping like an undignified dead animal and sewn together with ribbon.
Its fate is almost as undignified as that of the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square.
Most fans of The Legend of Zelda, just like most fans of Sony's suite of games, are well adjusted adults who aren't flipping their shit and behaving in the most undignified ways over conflicting opinions regarding entertainment products.
This de-cluttering of the HUD deprives the player of stance and speed information, though, which can cause the unwary player to have Sam amble to his death rather than sprint away from it, often in an undignified crouch.
I was given a copy along with a beat - up Nintendo 64 in mid-1999, and for a few months before the console died an unsurprising and rather undignified death, I found something rather special its horrendously close draw distance and tinny techno soundtrack.
And this is understandable considering the fact that they're dragged behind their dogs in an undignified, cartoon - like manner.
Booties are another option, although some owners — and some dogs — find them undignified.
Euthanasia is a humane course of action in cases where the prognosis is hopeless or where the continued life of the cat would be painful or undignified.
I asked an animal communicator about it and she said his comment was «how UNDIGNIFIED!!»
In the beginning of my grooming career, I often thought bows or bandannas were unnecessary and perhaps even a little undignified for the pet, although I did use them.
«I wouldn't dream of setting foot in such an undignified contraption!»
A vacuum may seem an easy way to get rid of pests, but to one fly, this undignified «end» is actually a beginning.
Not only that, but even if your book isn't the next best seller, it still occupies a place in your heart and to see it die such an undignified death can be more painful than any rejection or critique.
So to say it's had a facelift seems a little undignified, but that's really the upshot.
The Countryman's suspension does a good job of taking the edge off sharper bumps, but when we did hit some of those potholes — only the small ones, mind you — the Countryman did so with a rather resounding and undignified crash.
Your blue - singleted types might feel undignified behind the wheel, but for everyone else the Swift Sport is a gem.
Snarling, popping, and spitting fire in a most undignified manner — we love it!
It eliminates the undignified climbing and crawling to get at those things farthest from the tailgate.
Unfortunately, the convertible hardtop is undignified in the way it squeaks and rattles when closed.
Its coddled passengers will feel nothing so undignified as a vibration or a shudder, much less a clumsy shift from the sublimely supple, six - speed ZF automatic transmission.
That clutch might feel a little heavy if you're coming from a road car, but compared with a racer it's breezy, with a biting point that's easy to finesse; no undignified kangarooing at the drive - through fast food restaurant here (though the Plexiglas side windows might hinder the transaction).
He said of its critics, «It's kind of a wolf pack operating in a very undignified way.
That the movie attempts this noble ideal by ignobly putting those characters — and by extension actors Al Pacino and Christopher Walken — through a series of undignified situations is an irony completely lost on director Fisher Stevens.
Consider, too, that despite all those contortions invested in balancing the character, the actor (Jordan Prentice, habitually mistaken for Peter Dinklage by ignorant Sundance pundits) is left at the end with the burden of a grisly rimshot / punchline so undignified that its black humour becomes the one thing that any humour should never be: completely unfunny.
Last Days in Vietnam Miss Saigon aside, little work has been made about the chaotic 1975 episode in which Americans fled in helicopters from the embassy rooftop, an undignified end to a disastrous war.
The movie is undeniably strong in its sense of a bright light burned out too soon, and the often undignified fate of those who dare to chafe at society's established norms.
At the center of the heir - making storm is Johansson, who strains mightily (perhaps unwisely) to lend this undignified project some gravity.
Former middleweight champ Rocky Graziano makes an endearingly undignified appearance, and the theme song to the films is sung by none other than Nancy Sinatra (some relation).
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