Sentence examples for attempt to legitimate from inspiring English sources

Italy's ancient Roman past was recalled once more in the 1920s and '30s as a consequence of Mussolini's attempt to legitimate his political regime.

Collective memory practices are not only linked to sites of domination that attempt to legitimate a given social order, but also to unsanctioned sites of struggle, opposition, and transformation.

Nevertheless, contemporary continental philosophies can be seen as sharing a suspicion of what Lyotard (1984) has called "grand narratives," which are accounts of the world and human existence that (attempt to) legitimate and provide them with meaning from a position external to them.

Established elites responded with nationalist outbidding in an attempt to legitimate their waning power".

In attempts to legitimate dubious and often cruel policies, successive governments, national and state, utilised the spectre of the "half-caste menace" to support the violence underpinning assimilation.

Animalizing women in a sexist (or, patriarchal) culture that views animals as inferior to "humans" reinforces and attempts to legitimate women's alleged inferior status to men (see Adams 1990; Joan Dunayer 1995; Warren 2000).

El-Cheikh notes that these accounts of Heraclius add "little to our historical knowledge" of the emperor; rather, they are an important part of "Islamic kerygma," attempting to legitimate Muhammad's status as a prophet.

For many New Agers, these channeled messages rival the scriptures of the main world religions as sources of spiritual authority, although often New Agers describe historical religious revelations as forms of "channeling" as well, thus attempting to legitimate and authenticate their own contemporary practices.

"We can't see any legitimate purpose behind this investigation, and it looks to us like another attempt to repress legitimate political dissent," said Ann Beeson, associate legal director for the A.C.L.U.

The letter describes Trump's cease-and-desist letter as "nothing more than a transparent attempt to stifle legitimate criticism".

She describes Trump's cease-and-desist letter as "nothing more than a transparent attempt to stifle legitimate criticism".