Sentence examples for legitimatise from inspiring English sources

The myth of divine ancestry, such as that of Romulus, one of the legendary founders of Rome, in many places served to legitimatize the claims of the king.

China's first participation in the Olympic Games came about largely for diplomatic reasons, when Japan tried to legitimatize its control of Manchukuo with a plan to send a team to the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics to represent that puppet state.

Actually, the prickly nationalism of many Chinese may have less to do with their newfound prosperity than with China's fraught combination of political autocracy and economic liberalism: nationalism and economic boosterism are all the autocrats have at their disposal to try to legitimatize their continuing monopoly on power.

He wants to legitimatize his power in the eyes of the West.

The decision is no Emancipation Proclamation, but it has some of that document's transformational quality: there are few moments when a President, with a single act, can immediately uplift and legitimatize the lives of so many.

Marie Antoinette was twice handed over: first to produce the legitimate heir to an ossified monarchy, then to help legitimatize the fanatics who abolished it.

Liszt later legitimatized their births; he also provided generously for their education and, in the case of his daughters, their dowries.

And the popularity of the match legitimatized his new persona: at the time, De La Hoya vs. Mayweather was the most lucrative fight in boxing history.

It was further argued that submitting to the ordeal should help us understand such atrocities not as the acts of "barbarians" but as the reflection of a belief system, racism, that by defining one people as less human than another legitimatizes torture and murder.

It made me feel that I had legitimatized myself as a local.

"He was legitimatizing private-detective work at a different level," Joe Rosetti, who was the vice-chairman of Kroll until 2001, said.