Mdladlana not to "legitimise" the April 1 pact by signing it.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The problem with consultation is that it is being used to simply 'legitimise' decisions already taken.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

While the full integration of Nepad into the AU would "legitimise" the former, and promote awareness of the programme, there are still challenges ahead.    From Wordnik.com.  [IOL: News] Reference

This is the first time aggregators have been included in the NLA's licensing regime - the agency makes clear its aim is to "legitimise" the monitoring industry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blogposts | guardian.co.uk] Reference

The force of arms do not ‘legitimise’ or ‘delegitimise’ its status.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

You legitimise the very activity which leads to the problem you are trying to address.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

Ultimately, the only way to legitimise the BNP is to treat their "concerns" serisously.    From Wordnik.com.  [The BNP Has No Future - Unless the Tories and Labour Decide to Help Them] Reference

The rightwing propagates ideas that are intended to de-legitimise the ANC and its ideas.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Today] Reference

By far the most constructive idea (and new it is not) is to legitimise the opium harvest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?] Reference

Indeed, the parliamentary opposition helped to legitimise the illegal system of apartheid.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE PROBLEM IS NOT TOO LITTLE BUT TOO MUCH OPPOSITION] Reference

Figures have been quoted which attempt to legitimise certain parties and undermine others.    From Wordnik.com.  [RESEARCH RESULTS] Reference

To save his office and his skin he might even declare a war to legitimise its cancellation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?] Reference

One thing the selection does do, however, is legitimise questions about McCain's age and health.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...] Reference

The way to legitimise our fears is to declare that we are Islamistphobic and are against Islamism.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

However, writers should avoid using press freedom as a licence to legitimise their own prejudices.    From Wordnik.com.  [RESPONSE TO WEEKLY MAIL ARTICLE ON PREMIER SEXWALE] Reference

By televising the fight from Bophuthatswana, CBS, in effect, would legitimise this inhuman policy.    From Wordnik.com.  [SELECTED STATEMENTS AND OTHER PRESS RELEASES, 1963-1983] Reference

Even if mmgw was well-founded, that should not be used to excuse and legitimise criminal behaviour.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...] Reference

They are using left wing ideological tools to legitimise a racial shift in the distribution of power.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paul Abrams: An Obama Victory Will Itself Reassert US Leadership: First Person of Color to Govern Any Country with a White Majority, Ever] Reference

If you legitimise Sharia in part then it will not be long before the rest follows and all that entails.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

We will use our numbers to de-legitimise any agreement that is not consistent with our minimal position.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alemayehu G. Mariam: Copenhagen: The Mouse that Roared at the Conference] Reference

By this means it is seeking to legitimise the continued colonial domination of the black people of South Africa.    From Wordnik.com.  [Declaration of The African National Congress (S. A.) Executive Committee - Morogoro, 17-20 March '75] Reference

Durban 2 is therefore central to the attempt by the Arab and Muslim world to legitimise the destruction of Israel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The fifth columnist in the White House] Reference

Adopting the vocabulary of the middlebrow in order to legitimise the vanguard merely robs it of what animates it most.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Ever Happened to Moderism? by Gabriel Josipovici] Reference

Naturally, they also believe that their ideas will succeed to 'filter out and de-legitimise' other and opposing ideas.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Today] Reference

The British Government had the IRA where they wanted them, but decided to legitimise these thugs and gangsters instead.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

The choice of the words "lawfully remove them from society" is intended to legitimise summary executions by the police.    From Wordnik.com.  [COMMISSIONER OF POLICE ON THE SITUATION IN SOKHULU, NORTHERN NATAL] Reference

These exercises have the effect of not only helping to legitimise the investment of foreign companies but also to create.    From Wordnik.com.  [APARTHEID: THE INTERNATIONAL ASPECTS] Reference

So when they wanted a partner to legitimise an illegal and ill-thought-out war, the UK was the best country in the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Allison Kilkenny: British Defend Their Healthcare System] Reference

The third was to legitimise the exclusive concentration of political power in the hands of the colonial and settler oligarchy.    From Wordnik.com.  [CHURCH AND OUR STRUGGLE] Reference

Among the broader public in the respective societies, racist ideology also served to legitimise the actions of its perpetrators.    From Wordnik.com.  [Non-Racialism in Action Acknowledging the past, Changing the present, Building the future] Reference

Or take another more recent example, this being an attempt to legitimise canards by claiming that press freedom is under threat.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Today] Reference

But political expediency compels some to make confusing noises as they try to legitimise their position as viable oppositions to the ANC.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE ANC'S ONE AND A HALF YEARS IN PARLIAMENT] Reference

Thatcherism, having adopted that tendency in the theories of Jeremy Bentham which served best to legitimise the domination of the dominant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Speech closing the debate at the opening of Parliament] Reference

Within South Africa, the racists in their latest attempts to legitimise apartheid administrative structures, held nationwide local elections on.    From Wordnik.com.  [STATEMENT, ON BEHALF OF THE SOUTHERN AFRICAN LIBERATION MOVEMENTS, AT THE CLOSING SESSION OF THE SEVENTH SUMMIT MEETING OF THE PREFERENTIAL TRADE AREA FOR EASTERN AND SOUTHERN AFRICAN STATES, ARUSHA, DECEMBER 1-2, 1988(1)] Reference

It is probably meant to excuse or legitimise the real operation, which should properly be considered as sinful in view of the sacred character of the animal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference

Even now they still fail to grasp that ‘securing the best possible text’ will merely legitimise a process that should have been placed unambiguously beyond the pale.    From Wordnik.com.  [An unconscionable farce] Reference