Ideology conserves by camouflaging flawed social conditions, giving an illusory account of their rationale or function, in order to legitimate and win acceptance of them.
The Burns essay and the Iraq symposium are part of a consistent effort by the Times -- the Pollack-O'Hanlon puff for the surge and the double endorsement of McCain and Clinton were part of the same effort -- to shift legitimate opinion toward acceptance of a large and permanent American force in the Middle East.
Mr. Sarkozy requested the meeting with the pope, who had personally appealed for the acceptance of "legitimate human diversity".
Precisely because such domestic systems are characterized by a common acceptance of legitimate authority, and by a broader sense of mutual obligation, a true realist would never disagree that their possibilities for "trust, cooperation and growth" are often encouraging.
But he said he was relieved the latest advertisement did not "put that ridiculous, confusing assertion on the table that somehow dissent from church teaching is just as legitimate a position as acceptance of church teaching". He suggested Vatican officials had been particularly angered because the first advertisement implied that approval of abortion was a legitimate Catholic position.
As for populism, some thinkers have argued that it is a necessary occasional enhancement of democratic values and a cleansing of institutional and bureaucratic rigidities, but others see it as a dangerous challenge to the fundamental spirit of democratic life, including an acceptance of legitimate opposition in governing and a recognition of the reality and benefit of pluralism in society.
As the landscape of work changes, are flexible work patterns seeing acceptance as legitimate ways to work?
The outcome will involve the negotiation of rules that have wide social acceptance as legitimate and which define agreed moral norms of behaviour.
In recent years, comic-strip art has won sometimes reluctant acceptance as a legitimate way of telling complex stories.
For Israelis, ties with Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Arabs provide the acceptance as a legitimate state they have craved since 1948.
His willingness to compromise helped to pave the way for the party's acceptance as a legitimate political force, and for its eventual success in claiming the presidency.
