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.
The police should focus resources on fighting real crime, not attempting to stifle legitimate protest".
Patients attempting to fill legitimate prescriptions from rogue pharmacies, presumably to save money, should be aware that any drugs delivered may be substandard or counterfeit (Kanich et al. 2011; Gernburd and Jadad 2007).
The statement claimed that Muslim Advocates and SPLC are attempting "to redefine legitimate political differences as hate, in an effort to stop any public conversation about them". It also noted that the conference will include a Muslim speaker, as well as other presenters from underrepresented groups.
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After years of attempting to get a legitimate partner to prove it works in a clinical trial, Jacinte Naessens, said they are no longer trying.
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.
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.
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.
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).
