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Examples of legitimizing

legitimizing

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

They also sent reverberations through the officer corps and the soldiery, damaging confidence among some and legitimizing the desire for revenge among others.
In other words, the possibility of describing certain choral compositions almost as pre-existent music provided a solution to the aesthetic problem of legitimizing the chorus.
In particular, the role of political parties as legitimizing agents during periods of rapid economic and social change, is crucial.
Experimental psychologists use it without a second thought, catalogues and handbooks rubricate it fairly consistently, and historians succeed in pinpointing its legitimizing powers.
The legislature can also play an important role in overseeing the executive branch and legitimizing its policies.
We may see this as a way of legitimizing its own views.
He suggests two strategies for legitimizing such procurement.
These pedigrees certainly served the purpose of legitimizing the power of the kings whose ancestry they claimed to trace.
They refer to the divine office that the bearer held and to his socially defined person, legitimizing the person before society.
Again, their role was not limited to discussing security issues, but also to legitimizing the talks.
The state hoped for better oversight over religious expression in the country by legitimizing cer tain aspects of it and establishing bureaucratic control over it.
I suggest, that the legitimizing process concerning policy practice can be interpreted as a positive feedback procedure.
The legitimizing idea is that such separation makes for more effective language acquisition, not that a distinct group requires special treatment.
Networks of relationships, which had as their purpose the transfer of potency, developed; underpinning, legitimizing and replacing material bases of association.
Consequently, the legitimizing force of consent and the legitimacy-threatening force of dissent get lost.
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