Sentence examples for making them legitimate from inspiring English sources

When he gets to the frontline, all Iraqis resisting the US occupation are unquestionably identified as AQI (al-Qaida in Iraq), making them legitimate targets.

As for its broader shelling of the city, Georgia has told Western diplomats that Ossetians hid weapons in civilian buildings, making them legitimate targets.

Also in the video, Mr. Awlaki inveighs against Arab leaders who cooperate with the West, and he calls on religious scholars to declare such leaders infidels, making them legitimate targets for assassination.

And without wishing to diminish the importance of Lubanga's crime - conscription of children by rebel leaders must have a life-long impact on those concerned, quite apart from making them legitimate military targets while they are in uniform - this can hardly be said to be the most serious crime in the ICC's Rome statute.

It is sometimes alleged in disarmament circles that NWS possession of nuclear weapons, merely by making them "legitimate," encourages proliferation.

It makes them legitimate contenders.

That doesn't make them legitimate.

But acquiring an elite scorer like Gaborik for three obscure players suddenly makes them legitimate playoff contenders.

They are strikes against terrorists, people whose unpardonable crimes have stained Islam and made them legitimate targets.

The fact that companies in the pornographic "industry" ("Porn goes public," June 14, p. 60) can make money does not make them legitimate.

He's going to make them legitimate.