The essential elements in the biblical covenant i.e., that of free, voluntary acceptance of ethical obligation on the basis of and as response to past experience has virtually always given way to covenant as fixed religious dogma that legitimizes the social structure.
From 1980 forward MacKinnon also focused on legal and societal issues surrounding the sex industry, which she condemned as a form of sex discrimination that fosters and legitimizes exploitation and abuse of women.
Providing such a platform for somebody who so clearly holds false and disparaging opinions of so many segments of this country is a dangerous proposition that legitimizes Trump's hateful views and rewards his hate speech," Alex Nogales, President and CEO of the National Hispanic Media Coalition, said in a press release.
The ruling legitimizes not only these actions but also the centuries-old antihaitianismo, or anti-Haitian prejudice, in the Dominican Republic, and may well make life more difficult even for those Dominicans of Haitian descent and Haitian immigrants who, for the time being, are allowed to stay.
In his new book, "Against Football," Almond is plain about what he considers the various moral hazards of the game: "I happen to believe that our allegiance to football legitimizes and even fosters within us a tolerance for violence, greed, racism, and homophobia".
The notion of the bucket list legitimizes this diminished conception of the value of repeated exposure to art and culture.
Ultimately, the movie legitimizes resentment of the very Jews who were murdered on Polish soil — even at the hands of Poles.
When J.S. insists that they need to feel safe in order to talk, Melissa argues that the tape recorder "legitimizes their experience," and that she and J.S. are there to "provoke, release.
What happens in Iowa doesn't stay in Iowa: it befouls Republicans' image nationally, becomes a millstone around the eventual nominee's neck and legitimizes debate about some matters that shouldn't be debatable.
"On the one hand, they are supposed to produce artistically outstanding programs because that legitimizes funding and the reason for having public-service broadcasters," said Dominik Graf, a director whose series about the Russian mafia in Berlin, "Im Angesicht des Verbrechens" ("In the Face of Crime"), is often compared to "The Wire".
So you think it's the context and the environment that legitimizes graffiti for most people?
