Sentence examples for could legitimise from inspiring English sources

I think it could legitimise xenophobia.

Pakistan opposes this, fearing it could legitimise the line of control.

"By that logic you could legitimise intimacy with a five-year-old".

Otherwise police and security services could legitimise fishing expeditions by authorities under guise of a criminal investigation, so breaching privacy rights.

There has been speculation that use of this phrase could legitimise government interference into the operations of smaller internet service providers (ISPs) and cloud-based operations such as Google or Facebook.

An attempted coup could legitimise an even more authoritarian rule in Turkey.

They saw how useful it would be to have a figurehead depicted as not merely beyond reproach but very nearly divine, for the king's blessing could then legitimise what otherwise would look awfully like any old Latin American junta, in Thailand's case backed by business cronies and the Bangkok elite.

The Ars Technica news site, which first reported the story, noted Linux-based systems had historically been ignored by most major software houses, and enthusiasts had said Valve's step could help "legitimise" the platform.

But to register Mr Kasyanov would have given him free access to television and, more damagingly, could have legitimised him as a genuine liberal opponent.

Any of these niche policy positions could become legitimised if played as a bargaining chip in negotiations between the "commonsense" crossbenchers and the government, Labor or the Greens.

The argument used to go that because much of the EU's activity was highly technical and regulatory in character it could be legitimised via alternative mechanisms that stressed outputs, expertise, and efficiency.