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  • verb Present participle of legitimize.

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Examples

  • In my September commentary referenced above, I noted: "State-certified teachers who are ruling party members could be used to play a decisive role in legitimizing the regime and in indoctrinating the youth in the regime's ideology."

    Alemayehu G. Mariam: Ethiopia: Education Unbanned! Alemayehu G. Mariam 2010

  • People who judge their eventual effectiveness in legitimizing their views about Israel by their current size are underestimating them.

    Mark Udall and J Street « View From a Height 2009

  • In my September commentary referenced above, I noted: "State-certified teachers who are ruling party members could be used to play a decisive role in legitimizing the regime and in indoctrinating the youth in the regime's ideology."

    Alemayehu G. Mariam: Ethiopia: Education Unbanned! Alemayehu G. Mariam 2010

  • That was all from the networks for the 2006-7 season (apart from NBC’s very short-lived Raines), but Heroes along with the continued strong performance of Lost, Supernatural, and The Ghost Whisperer succeeded in legitimizing the trend and assuring a lasting presence for the genre with the broadcast networks.

    07 « April « 2010 « Axiom's Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy 2010

  • That was all from the networks for the 2006-7 season (apart from NBC’s very short-lived Raines), but Heroes along with the continued strong performance of Lost, Supernatural, and The Ghost Whisperer succeeded in legitimizing the trend and assuring a lasting presence for the genre with the broadcast networks.

    How Lost Changed the Face of Network Television – Part 3 2010

  • There’s a real danger in legitimizing faith healing on par with actual, verifiable science.

    I shall pray for you, if you ask nicely… « Dating Jesus 2009

  • Maher al Jabari accused the PA of trying to carry out the "American enterprise" in occupied Palestine, namely legitimizing the Israeli occupation.

    Palestine Blogs aggregator 2009

  • Perhaps the time has come to stop worrying about "legitimizing" a regime that's outlasted ten U.S. presidents and come up with a substantive strategy to get them to open their society, empty their prisons, and feed their people — because isolation isn't doing it.

    The illegitimate nephew of Napoleon Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • Perhaps the time has come to stop worrying about "legitimizing" a regime that's outlasted ten U.S. presidents and come up with a substantive strategy to get them to open their society, empty their prisons, and feed their people — because isolation isn't doing it.

    Archive 2008-02-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • "So now it's official: Democrats are as culpable as Republicans in" legitimizing "this fake, stupid, unwinnable war imperialist endeavor."

    Reid: "We Now Have The Timeline The Republicans Have Set" 2009

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