It presents two options for dealing with "scientific" whaling – phasing it out over five years or effectively legitimising it – but Japan has already ruled out ending the practice, leaving only legitimisation on the table.
That Barack Obama presided over the killing of an American citizen like Awlaki (albeit one who had renounced his citizenship) marks a major advance in solidifying and legitimising the war paradigm.
Yet Fidesz's nationalism – and its support for rewriting Hungarian history to whitewash its role in the Holocaust in particular – always ends up legitimising Jobbik's extremist rhetoric.
He may also view the outcome as legitimising his aspiration to a presidential style of government.
That would soothe Israel's supporters, who argue that the BBC's usual language risks legitimising terrorism.To report better on the Palestinians, the BBC will open a bureau in the West Bank.
The chief rabbinate, Israel's state religious authority, reluctantly began legitimising their marriages again after a recent order by Israel's Supreme Court, but it continues to argue that since Karaite rites are not Jewish, Karaites have lesser Jewish rights, too.
But why risk international isolation by legitimising the overthrow of the democratically elected government?
Whether or not next month's elections produce the scripted result Pervez Musharraf continues as president, while Benazir Bhutto becomes prime minister, a job she has held twice already China will have an important role in legitimising the new regime.Similarly, China's other neighbours prefer co-operation and placation to confrontation and hostility.
Pervez Musharraf, who resigned as Pakistan's president in August, had therefore proposed legitimising it.
Giuliano Amato, one of the convention's vice-presidents, stressed the importance of "the support of civil society in legitimising the final outcome of the convention's work".Happily, civil society seemed supportive of the idea of expanding EU power.
It's one step closer to legitimising the business," says Richard Lee, a local retailer.
