As America's national preacher, the president can legitimize some behaviors and delegitimize others.
Heith Copes, an expert in criminal decision-making, explained that treating crime as a skill can help offenders mitigate feelings of guilt, as in their minds it legitimizes the behavior.
The question that troubled me, as advocacy director of CPJ, is how to do this without legitimizing the behavior of repressive governments who could use the initiative as an excuse to clamp down on domestic dissent and criticism.
"The goal is that the taxpayers not subsidize this guy's attempt to legitimize a despicable behavior and a dangerous behavior," said State Senator John Loudon, a Republican from the St . Louissuburbs.
Jeremy Hunt, the Conservative spokesman for cultural and media issues, said it was "wrong to produce programs that legitimize negative social behavior".
We need to avoid the mistakes of the International Telecommunications Union, which has become a forum to legitimize bad government behavior, and create truly international governance that can't be dominated or abused by any one country.
On top of books and documents, we can use tradition, public opinion, majority rule, "everybody knows" and collective perpetuated prejudice to legitimize beliefs and behaviors, no matter how negative the consequences of these beliefs and behaviors.
Yet Beijing must realize that the North's behavior legitimizes America's presence in South Korea and encourages Japan to increase defense spending.
I see various groups are protesting a decision by a California government lawyer to teach a course with you that starts on Jan . 12 claiming he is legitimizing your unethical behavior.
By reflecting social rules and relations, social representations function as guides for action, which legitimize and orient behaviors, and justify and influence social relations (Miguel et al.2010 23.3).2010 23.3
