legitimisation

This is called legitimisation _per subsequens matrimonium_, and is not unfrequently taken advantage of by elderly gentlemen, who, after having passed the heyday of youth, wish to give their children a position, and a legal right to inherit their property.

Notes and Queries, Number 183, April 30, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Various 1852

If the civil service expected a hung parliament, did it prepare scenarios to be followed based on all the possible outcomes of that kind of result and, if so, should it not have included some form of legitimisation for a highly controversial programme not endorsed by the electorate?

Letters: Civil service role in forming the coalition government 2011

At the beginning this would have rendered the process of legitimisation very difficult.

Travel 2009

The main opposition party is absent and also some women rights activists boycott the jirga which they consider part of a Karzai legitimisation machine.

Josh Mull: Optics of the National Consultative Peace Jirga in Afghanistan 2010

The main opposition party is absent and also some women rights activists boycott the jirga which they consider part of a Karzai legitimisation machine.

Josh Mull: Optics of the National Consultative Peace Jirga in Afghanistan 2010

The continuous process of embodying cultural elements of the past secures this legitimisation. 16

Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008

The enlightenment of the world from a single, central position, the winning of mass support through convincing arguments, the legitimate road to power by way of the ballot-box, the legitimisation by the people itself of power achieved — I fear it is hard to deny that these are democratic stigmata, revelatory perhaps of democracy in a decadent and feverish form, but democratic none the less.

Hitler’s Democracy « Isegoria 2008

Militarisation consists of the use of the threat of violence to settle political conflicts, the legitimisation of state violence, the curtailment of freedom of opinion, the domination of military values over civilian life, the violation of human rights, extrajudicial killings and the gross repression of the people (Chunakara, 1994).

Violence as an instrument of governance 2009

"Criticism" of Israel finds its natural home amongst the anti-semites in the western democracies, and serves the cause of the de-legitimisation of Israel, and thereby the downfall of Jews.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

At the beginning this would have rendered the process of legitimisation very difficult.

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