delegitimating

Disenchantment in its second phase pushed aside monotheistic religion as something irrational, thus delegitimating it as a unifying worldview in the modern secular world.

Asthmatic 2009

This delegitimating of a president -- and, by extension, his agenda -- explains the odd crowing reaction of Republicans to the failed Chicago Olympic bid.

Matt Osborne: Obama is Not God: the Projection Principle 2009

In the alternative, they can provoke the oppressive government to expend resources in putting down the rebellion, in the process weakening or delegitimating it.

Balkinization 2004

In the alternative, they can provoke the oppressive government to expend resources in putting down the rebellion, in the process weakening or delegitimating it.

Balkinization 2004

The Bush administration's last Under-Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy, Jim Glassman, used to say that Global Strategic Engagement should focus on delegitimating the enemy (al-Qaeda) rather than improving America's favorable ratings in these surveys.

Marc Lynch 2009

Rather than accepting it as normal that we have different views on health policy, he happily slanders the millions of Venezuelans who dissent from the government line, delegitimating our views by accusing us of thinking it a crime to want to devote more resources to the poor.

Venezuela Analysis 2009

But Darwinists have become obsessed with delegitimating man's 'humanness'.

Darwiniana 2009

Strategic communications advocates generally focused on the use of information in the service of particular tactical or strategic objectives: delegitimating al-Qaeda's ideology and driving up its negatives.

Abu Aardvark 2008

Strategic communications advocates generally focused on the use of information in the service of particular tactical or strategic objectives: delegitimating al-Qaeda's ideology and driving up its negatives.

Marc Lynch 2008

(which was ultimately rejected at the board meeting before Beauregard's death) followed a pattern of "delegitimating and dehumanizing a fellow democracy."

Canadian Jewish News 2010