That leaves something like the legitimation of the Kosovo intervention, pithily described as "illegal but legitimate".
The demands on the legitimation of law change with this functional realignment: to be legitimate, modern law must secure the private autonomy of those subject to it.
By the time of Max Joseph's death, he had legitimated seven of the males of his various alliances, and was considering the legitimation of two more.
The French and the Russians might block any new resolution implying "retroactive legitimation" of the war.
It formed a powerful legitimation of king and elite in their task of preserving order.
The history of "private", Williams concluded tartly, "is a record of the legitimation of a bourgeois view of life".
A much-publicized decision in 1992 (the Mabo case) seemed to promise a radical legitimation of indigenous land-rights claims.
More organizations will be created, and fewer organizations will fail, when the legitimation of the form is high and competition is weak.
The empty tomb and the indeterminacy of the Resurrection stories should teach that "the Risen One is not there for the legitimation of any particular program," he wrote, or of any ultimate institutional authority in the church.
We had this Art & Language show within the show and that was part of the legitimation of conceptual art, which people may have heard about in '72 but hadn't really seen.
There is also a suggestion that Pico's Kabbalistic enthusiasms and his open legitimation of "natural" magic — the mystical and esoteric side of his shtick — opened him up to accusations of witchcraft.
