Sentence examples for need legitimizing from inspiring English sources

"Not that our movement should need legitimizing, but I thought that that was the most powerful legitimation that we could have ever dreamed of, on this historic day," he said.

Female salary negotiation research shows that women, more often than men, need to legitimize their requests during a negotiation.

I had hoped and assumed this meant she wouldn't be plundering the American Songbook, though she'd be welcome to it; she's the rare older pop artist who doesn't need to legitimize herself with acknowledged classics.

In the early 1980's, inspired by the religious overtones of the anti-Soviet war in Afghanistan and a need to legitimize his power, seized in a coup, Gen. Mohammed Zia ul Haq allied himself with this country's religious leaders.

Some blame the state and its need to legitimize deeply unpopular wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

It is clearly tied to a desperate need to legitimize a pathological love of guns, even in the case of a series of bombings.

The inherent racism that runs through American systems grew out of a need to legitimize, preserve and later replace slavery with less obvious forms of subjugation.

Media outlets need to stop legitimizing Steve Bannon by giving him a platform.

Even his puritanism might be what Russia's nascent capitalism needs to legitimize itself in the public mind.

Almost every evil in the world can be explained in terms of peoples' needs to legitimize themselves.

Leadership at the departmental level needs to legitimize and support mentoring of undergraduates, so both mentors and mentees are working within a supportive environment.