Amazing what a relentless campaign of delegitimation and politicization yields. From Wordnik.com. [You Will Learn To Genuflect And You Will Respect Me | ATTACKERMAN] Reference
All their actions out of power move toward the delegitimation of those in power. From Wordnik.com. [David Bromwich: Land of the Safe and Home of the Cruel] Reference
We have seen a return this year to the politics of delegitimation by the extreme. From Wordnik.com. [David Bromwich: Assassination Chatter and the End of Legitimacy] Reference
The book created a storm, and Arendt was subjected to a systematic campaign of delegitimation. From Wordnik.com. [Carlo Strenger: Tony Judt's Testimony on his Jewishness] Reference
Well, if there is to be an end of Israel's occupation of the West Bank, the Palestinian Authority will have to stop playing the delegitimation card. From Wordnik.com. [Alan Dershowitz: How Goldstone Is Making Peace More Difficult] Reference
An unmeasurable but well-recorded condition for the assassination of John F. Kennedy was the campaign of delegitimation that preceded that terrible event. From Wordnik.com. [David Bromwich: Assassination Chatter and the End of Legitimacy] Reference
Well, apparently, any positive attention paid to mothers, any social legitimation of motherhood, amounts to a delegitimation of the choice to not have children. From Wordnik.com. [It’s My Motherhood, And I’ll Celebrate It If I Want To | Her Bad Mother] Reference
Yet Buddhism was dominant in the cultural system that emerged in the early modern period, particularly in providing signs of legitimation (and delegitimation in the face of popular unrest) for rulers. From Wordnik.com. [b. Siam (Ayutthaya)] Reference
Insofar, therefore, as the regime of natural liberty is virtually co-terminous with the organization of society through free exchange, the delegitimation of exchange itself also attacks the regime of “natural liberty.”. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
A more accurate approach, showing how the Soviet influence interacted with other influences, might be better history, but it cannot achieve the political end (delegitimation of Communist workers) which Draper and Klehr seek. From Wordnik.com. [Revisiting American Communism: An Exchange] Reference
Kennedy, in answer to a question about why she would stay in the Democratic race when all the numbers are against her, raised the tactics of delegitimation to a pitch as weird as anything the Clintons can have seen in the years 1997-98. From Wordnik.com. [David Bromwich: Assassination Chatter and the End of Legitimacy] Reference
Northern Mexico, like southern Mexico, has what the Argentine political scientist Guillermo O'Donnell calls "brown zones," in which "the presence of the state is very low" or the knowledge that "the police are working with the drug traffickers ... has led to the delegitimation of state authority.". From Wordnik.com. [History Moving North] Reference
W wasn't sure what to make of this predicament, except for his own intuition that an interest in high Romanticism was more and more going to be accompanied by a rationale for that interest's existence -- an exercise in Habermasian legitimacy that, given Romanticism's history of legitimation and delegitimation, wasn't simply good or bad but something that, for a start, had to be recognized as an object requiring reflection in its own right. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Formalist, or W.J.T. Mitchell as Romantic Dinosaur] Reference
Natan Sharansky provides a "3-D test": demonization, double standards, and delegitimation. From Wordnik.com. [CAMERA Snapshots] Reference
All these fuelled the discrediting, resistance to and delegitimation of the AU's role in that country. From Wordnik.com. [AllAfrica News: Latest] Reference
In January 2010 a leading Israeli think-tank, the Reut Institute, worried about what it called the "delegitimation war". From Wordnik.com. [openDemocracy] Reference
This means prioritizing the delegitimation of U.S. enemies (al-Qaeda and extremist ideologies) over improving U.S. favorability ratings abroad. From Wordnik.com. [Marc Lynch] Reference
And indeed the terms of that victory foreshadow the rhetorical (and electoral) victories of Reaganism and the concomitant delegitimation of liberalism. From Wordnik.com. [Financial Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha] Reference
Israel and Jews around the world recognized that this demonization and delegitimation was as dangerous as the physical war and terror campaigns, and in some ways more sinister. From Wordnik.com. [San Francisco Sentinel] Reference
Letting the delegitimation of Israel grow, seems to me the best path to weaken not only the freedom of maneuver of Israel, but to undermine ourselves in front of our enemies, which are the same. From Wordnik.com. [Israel Matzav] Reference
And their response is, as we saw here, either suppression or manipulation or, even worse, the delegitimation and the personal attacks on skeptics in an attempt to write them out of the journals, to get them fired, and all kinds of nasty stuff. From Wordnik.com. [NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias] Reference
In our day, corruption and delegitimation seem to have undermined fixed authority ensured the reproduction of a decadent system; both capital and its social democratic opposition ( 'the left wing of devalorisation') are discredited but the working class have suffered greatly through the concomitant process of non-reproduction. From Wordnik.com. [Mute magazine - Culture and politics after the net - CULTURE AND POLITICS AFTER THE NET] Reference
If we want to minimize and ultimately eliminate nuclear weapons, the critical need is to change perceptions of their role and utility: in effect, to achieve their progressive delegitimation, from a position in which they occupied a central strategic place to one in which their role is seen as quite marginal, and eventually wholly unnecessary as well as undesirable. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
Israel has itself indicated its concerns about 'the delegitimation project' taking various forms, especially the BDS (. From Wordnik.com. [Qwaider Planet] Reference
'delegitimation' network. From Wordnik.com. [Palestine Blogs aggregator]
Let's begin with what the report refers to as nuclear weapons "delegitimation" (which, apparently, is to "deligitimization" as "preventive" is to "preventative"). From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
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