Sentence examples for do not legitimize from inspiring English sources

"If you want to teach Darwish," Mr. Landau said, "show him to be one who demonizes us, but do not legitimize him.

Differences among individuals are undeniable, but they do not legitimize prejudice or discrimination.

I'm not saying these feelings aren't legitimate, just that they don't legitimize what you're doing.

If you support Bernie Sanders, please don't legitimize a third party that is in most respects the ideological opposite of what he stands for.

Poverty does not legitimize terrorism, responded the American delegate, Kevin Moley.

"This bill does not legitimize any unlawful activity or expand the scope of otherwise lawful activity," Mr. Goodlatte said.

The historical basis for what is lurid here (see "Ragtime" as a genuinely literary prototype) does not legitimize the degree of contrivance with which Mr. Rubenfeld pastes it together.

Re "Sixteen Truthful Words," by William Safire (column, July 19), about President Bush's 2003 State of the Union address: Even if it is proved true that the Iraqis were interested in buying uranium from Niger, that still does not legitimize George W. Bush's pre-emptive war against Iraq.

Viète appears to grant that the pointwise construction of the quadratrix, such as that presented by Clavius, was in fact more precise than other constructions of the curve, but, Viète claims, this greater precision does not legitimize its status as genuinely geometrical.

His failure does not legitimize mine.

The Palestinian president argued that a visit to a prisoner is a victory for him and does not legitimize his imprisonment.