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- verb Present participle of
legitimise .
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Examples
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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Seeking permission, the former Robben Island prisoner noted, would be "legitimising" the present Government.
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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
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(we're) kind of legitimising the killing of any whale, and any whale is
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(we're) kind of legitimising the killing of any whale, and any whale is
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"I understand people really worry about this, they say (we're) kind of legitimising the killing of any whale, and any whale is
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"I understand people really worry about this, they say (we're) kind of legitimising the killing of any whale, and any whale is
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