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  • verb Present participle of legitimise.

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Examples

  • This article is as deluded as the progressive mind can get because it typifies the outlook of Polly Toynbee that politics is a constant secular style crusade that has is aim in legitimising post-Christian notions of progress that owe much to religious thinking.

    Won`t Get Fooled Again Newmania 2007

  • I don’t see the point in legitimising it and elevating it to some sort of respectable policy debate.

    Matthew Yglesias » Rich Lawyers Boosting Traffic Jams and Calling It Charity 2009

  • The first challenge is about combining the power of what Professor Manuel Castells refers to as three identities: the 'legitimising' identity, which is about the state as a representative of the majority at the service of all; the 'resistance' identity which is about mass organisation and mobilisation; and the 'project' identity which I would define as capacity to implement policies decided upon.

    CONTENTS: 2006

  • The first challenge is about combining the power of what Professor Manuel Castells refers to as three identities: the 'legitimising' identity, which is about the state as a representative of the majority at the service of all; the 'resistance' identity which is about mass organisation and mobilisation; and the 'project' identity which I would define as capacity to implement policies decided upon.

    Understanding the tasks of the moment 2006

  • Seeking permission, the former Robben Island prisoner noted, would be "legitimising" the present Government.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

  • Israel's "ceasefire" was a unilateral one in order to avoid having to sign any agreement with Hamas, thereby inadvertantly, in Israel's view, 'legitimising' it.

    The Heathlander 2009

  • (we're) kind of legitimising the killing of any whale, and any whale is

    WN.com - Photown News 2010

  • (we're) kind of legitimising the killing of any whale, and any whale is

    WN.com - Photown News 2010

  • "I understand people really worry about this, they say (we're) kind of legitimising the killing of any whale, and any whale is

    WN.com - Photown News 2010

  • "I understand people really worry about this, they say (we're) kind of legitimising the killing of any whale, and any whale is

    WN.com - Photown News 2010

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