There are many ways to legitimize political arrangements.

If we talk to them, we may legitimize them.

Within Cuba, he hopes to legitimize his government by improving standards of living.

Ahmedinejad pursues a dual objective with his anti Zionist obsession to de legitimize Israel and to re legitimize Iran s claim to speak for Muslims over the heads of their more cautious governments.

It is no use denying that civic participation too often serves only to legitimize a sham.

If they agree, they help to legitimize a system in which they do not really believe.

Some American leaders then tried to de legitimize the UN and called for an alternative alliance of democracies.

To legitimize the child, compromise me, and prevent a divorce?' he reflected. 'But there is something about dying...'

Former perpetrators often try to de legitimize their former victims moral superiority by claiming they were victims themselves.

So the agreement may legitimize and produce an arms race in South America, which is in no one s interest.

The only purpose of the League of Democracies seems to be to legitimize war making by democracies in order to spread democracy!

Charging its political opponents with crimes like assault, is a common tactic by a Castro regime always trying to legitimize its repression.

Many people expected that Venezuela would follow the example of several Latin American countries by respecting constitutional procedures to legitimize a new government.

While any definition of terrorism has problems at the margins, the core of terrorism is clear enough to permit efforts to de legitimize it.

While any definition of terrorism has problems at the margins, the core of terrorism is clear enough to permit efforts to de legitimize it.

The regime of Islam Karimov uses the arrests and closed trials to perpetuate fear and legitimize its authoritarian rule both at home and abroad.

The US could gain doubly, both from the public goods themselves, and from the way they legitimize its preponderant power in the eyes of others.

If they agree, they help to legitimize a system in which they do not really believe. If they refuse, they have no influence at all.

Now, these countries are largely rejecting R2P, viewing it as a device employed by Western governments to legitimize their attempts to infringe upon national sovereignty.

Despite those limits, the UN has considerable soft power that arises from its ability to legitimize the actions of states, particularly regarding the use of force.

The weapons of shame and international opprobrium should be mustered to make it impossible for any democratic nation to legitimize a coup in another democratic country.

And nobody plays the history card with quite as much relish as China, where President Xi Jinping is also relying on nationalism to legitimize his rule.

Likewise, in terms of political values, the US has resisted agreements that could legitimize authoritarian governments censorship of the Internet for example, by the great firewall of China.

Most agree that it offered a way to consolidate and legitimize a state s rule over a group of people, whether defined by a common language, culture, or ethnicity.

But it would also likely de legitimize the next government before it comes into power, rupture Pakistan s largest political party, and create a nationalist backlash against the US.

Kerry s plan to divide the city along ethnic lines amounts to Israel s last chance to avoid such an outcome and legitimize the city as its internationally recognized capital.

However, like many other repressive laws approved by Arab regimes over the years, this law is yet another tool to legitimize suppression of online speech and political dissent.

Suddenly, there exists a mechanism for participation, control, dissent (limited as it may be) and the introduction of innovative strategies that seek to legitimize change within a traditional context.

Finally, the need to move ahead with European unification in order to legitimize the inevitable infringement of over indebted countries sovereignty might eventually infringe upon German sovereignty as well.

This is essential not only in order to build a better socialism, as Castro has promised, but, especially, to legitimize the continuity of the regime established by his brother Fidel s revolution.

Though their vision of information security could legitimize authoritarian governments censorship, and is therefore unacceptable to democratic governments, it may be possible to identify and target behaviors that are illegal everywhere.

This is essential not only in order to build a better socialism, as Castro has promised, but, especially, to legitimize the continuity of the regime established by his brother Fidel s revolution.

Decent, thoughtful, high minded, the millions who marched against holding Iraq to account were catalyzed by the idea that only the UN Security Council has the authority to legitimize the resort to force.

One example of a possible implementation of the law, Cannataci says in his letter, is that it may legitimize and facilitate government surveillance of NGOs perceived to be acting against the government interest.

BEIJING Would China ever be willing to host an international policy discussion about the conditions that would legitimize invading another country to stop genocide or other mass atrocity crimes from being committed within its borders?

In terms of international security, a long term fight for regional dominance will increase the threat of global terrorism, as both sides are using extremist groups that seek to legitimize their actions in religious terms.

Iran has threatened to leave the NPT if sanctions are imposed, and Russia and China worry that even modest targeted sanctions could escalate and ultimately legitimize an American use of force that they wish to avoid.

Now is the time for the new European Commission to propose and the new European Council and European Parliament to endorse a political pact to legitimize and sustain the reforms needed to solve Europe s economic problems.

Iran has threatened to leave the NPT if sanctions are imposed, and Russia and China worry that even modest targeted sanctions could escalate and ultimately legitimize an American use of force that they wish to avoid.

By helping to de legitimize Yasir Arafat and by accepting Prime Minister Sharon's characterization of Israel's reoccupation as self defense, American policy threatens to weaken the moral clarity and credibility of the US in the eyes of the world.

While a tokol, or tokal, is by no means the second wife as envisaged in Islamic tradition, men do use use the Islamic ritual of nikah to legitimize their extramarital relationships in the two countries where polygamy remains illegal.

According to this view, if Iran wants to de legitimize Israel and ultimately unite Moslems against the West, the only answer is to isolate Iran in the Middle East, and to create alliances against Iran with moderate Sunni Arab regimes.

According to this view, if Iran wants to de legitimize Israel and ultimately unite Moslems against the West, the only answer is to isolate Iran in the Middle East, and to create alliances against Iran with moderate Sunni Arab regimes.

Third, they cite treaty related and constitutional difficulties in establishing rules and procedures that would simulate a fiscal union. Finally, the need to move ahead with European unification in order to legitimize the inevitable infringement of over indebted countries sovereignty might eventually infringe upon German sovereignty as well.

The United Nations can play an important role in helping to legitimize and implement agreements among countries, but even its closest friends admit that its large size, rigid regional blocs, formal diplomatic procedures, and cumbersome bureaucracy often impede consensus As one sage put it, the problem for multilateral organizations is how to get everyone into the act and still get action.